Fragmented perspectives, transiting signs of urbanity -
Everyday life's representations and uses of space
in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appendix with the materials
vorgelegt von
MA Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Publizistik- und Kommunikaitonswissenschaft
Elisa Tullia Bertuzzo
Fakultät VI
Planen Bauen Umwelt
der Technischen Universität Berlin
zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades
Doktor der Philosophie
- Dr. Phil. -
genehmigte Dissertation
Promotionsausschuss:
Vorsitzende: Prof. Dr. Dorethée Sack
Berichter: Prof. Dr. Peter Herrle
Berichterin: Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf
Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 15. Juli 2008
Berlin 2008
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Overview and list of figures
Materials to Part 1
1.1. Introduction
Fig. 1: Slums in Dhaka Metropolitan Area, 2005 p. 3
1.3. Methodology
Questionnaire p. 4
Considerations accompanying the ethnographic method p. 6
Materials to Part 2
2.1. Physical field – Spatial practice
Fig. 2: Age of the respondents p. 8
Fig. 3: Living areas of the respondents according to their income group p. 8
Fig. 4: Living areas of the respondents of group 1 p. 9
Fig. 5: Living areas of the respondents of group 2 p. 9
Fig. 6: Living areas of the respondents of group 3 p. 9
Fig. 7: Living areas of the respondents of group 4 p. 10
Fig. 8: Living areas of the respondents of group 5 p. 10
Fig. 9: Living areas of the respondents of group 6 p. 10
Fig. 10: Profession of the respondents according to their income group p. 11
Fig. 11: Profession of the respondents according to their gender p. 11
Fig. 12: Marital status of the respondents according to their income group p. 11
Fig. 13: Marital status of the respondents according to their education p. 12
Fig. 14: Education of the respondents according to their income group p. 12
Fig. 15: Education of the respondents according to their gender p. 12
Fig. 16: Years spent in Dhaka according to the respondents’ income groups p. 13
Fig. 17: Relationship between years spent in Dhaka and income groups p. 13
Fig. 18: Age groups according to Dhaka Census 2001, selected areas p. 14
Fig. 19: Sex ratio and literacy according to Dhaka Census 2001, interview locations p. 14
Fig. 20: Religious groups according to Dhaka Census 2001, interview locations p. 15
Fig. 21: Female occupation according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics p. 15
Fig. 22: Basic infrastructural services, interview locations p. 16
Fig. 23: Density, according to Dhaka Census 2001, of interview locations p. 17
Fig. 24: Proportion of respondents living in old town p. 18
Fig. 25: Proportion of respondents living in traditional “urban” areas p. 18
Fig. 26: Proportion of respondents living in new areas p. 18
Fig. 27: Proportion of respondents living in slums, squatters and informal settlements p. 19
Fig. 28: Proportion of respondents living in “upper class” areas p. 19
Fig. 29: Proportion of respondents living in fringes/outskirts p. 19
Fig. 30: Respondents’ reasons for choosing their living area p. 20
Fig. 31: Respondents’ profession according to their living area p. 20
Fig. 32: Street view of Shakhari Bazaar p. 21
Fig. 33: Plot view of Shakhari Bazaar p. 21
Fig. 34: Floors view of House Nr. 32, Shakhari Bazaar p. 22
Fig. 35: Commercial establishments in Dhanmondi Residential Area p. 23
2.2. Mental field – Representations of space
Interview transcriptions p. 24
Sample of codified interviews p. 144
Materials
PART 1 - 1.1. Introduction
Fig. 1: Slums in Dhaka Metropolitan Area, 20051
1Source: Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), National Institute of Population Research and Training (NI-
PORT) and MEASURE Evaluation, 2006. Slums in Urban Bangladesh: Mappping and Census, 2005.
Dhaka, Bangladesh and Chapell Hill, USA.
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1.3. Methodology
Questionnaire
1) Statistical Information
1.1. Name
1.2. Gender
1.3. Married / Unmarried Children?
1.4. Age: a) 1 -15 b) 16-30 c) 31-45 d) 46-60 e) 61+
1.5. Education level: a) primary b) secondary c) higher secondary d) university e) profess-
or
1.6. Religion
1.7. Profession
1.8. In which neighbourhood do you work / study?
1.9. In which neighbourhood do you live?
1.10. Permanent / temporary address, monthly rent costs?
1.10.a. Have you already lived in other neighbourhoods in Dhaka?
1.11. What do you like in your neighbourhood? Why?
1.12. Monthly income:
1) <3.000 2) 3.-5.000 3) 5.-10.000 4) 10.-25.000 5) 25.-50.000 6) > 50.000Tk / month
1.13. Have you ever lived in other cities in Bangladesh and abroad?
1.14. Since when do you/your family live in Dhaka?
2) On Everyday Practices
2.1. Where do you buy food/ clothes/ other goods? (Who does the shopping?)
2.2. Which neighbourhoods/areas (other than yours) do you go to? How often? With which
purpose?
2.3. How do you move in Dhaka City?
2.4. Can you describe your daily routine?
2.5. (How) Does it change on week-ends?
2.6. Who are the persons, e.g. a group of friends, whom you meet / see with a certain reg -
ularity (colleagues, neighbours, childhood friends, children' parents... what is their job...)?
2.7. Are you member of any groups (civil society group, environmental organisation, sport,
women, parents, students' groups...)?
2.8. What is your favourite place to stay, alone or with other women, when you are free?
Do you know any place where only women gather (religious/ action/ cultural groups..)?
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3) On the city
3.1. Do you like living in Dhaka? Why is it good to live in Dhaka (e.g. because it is a capit-
al city...)?
3.2. Why did you move to Dhaka?
3.3. How are people in Dhaka?
3.4. Do you think there is any difference between settlers and persons who were born in
Dhaka?
3.5. Which advantages and disadvantages (better infrastructure, education and recre-
ation/ chaos, traffic, less greenery..) does Dhaka offer?
4) On Space Conceptualisations
4.1. Where do you go to pray?
4.1.a. Are there other religious spaces, in Dhaka, where people can worship? Is space
particularly “holy”, to you, in some parts of Dhaka?
4.2. Where do you spend Eid (other religious festivities)? With whom? What do you do
and where do you go?
4.3. Do you take part in 16th December, 21st February, 8th March, 26th March, or Bangla
New Year? Where?
4.4. When is your free-time? Where and with whom do you spend it?
4.5. Is there a place/building/neighbourhood, in Dhaka, that represents Bangladesh as a
whole?
4.6. Where do you go to get informed and discuss about political and social events?
4.7. Have you ever taken/ do you take part in political processions or similar demonstra-
tions? Where and with whom?
4.8. As Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka is the centre of political power. Which location/ build-
ing would you mention as its centre? Do you go there in some particular occasions?
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Considerations accompanying the ethnographic method
Questions about Dhaka in the past – only for Dhakayers at least 25 years old
Playgrounds, squares (which names, which meaning?), parks, canals, gathering
points, markets, free-time occupations...
Which neighbourhoods were exclusive, which came new?
…explain some historical pictures?
Mental mapping
Ask to draw map of a particular way, e.g. from home to work, or of Dhaka in general, de-
pending on interview.
Participant observation
4.1. Going for shopping:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
Is it a burden or a pleasure?
...why this particular place among others?
..is entry free?
Minor activities going on
4.2. Transport in the city:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
How long?
Is it something pleasant or a burden?
Is he/she afraid?
...costs?
4.3. Prayer:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
Is gathering after the celebration common?
How long?
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4.4. Festivities:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
Which behaviour, (dress, veil, interaction...)?
...why this particular place among others?
4.5. Spending free time:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
Is groups’ behaviour different, less repressed, in private sphere?
Is there any favourite place to go, without a specific purpose?
Why is it beloved? ...entry free?
Minor activities going on
4.6. Building identity:
What is defined as Bangladeshi (in terms of identification)?
Which differences between migrants and Dhakaiya?
..between education level?
4.7. Reunion/Information about political and social matters:
How often (daily/weekly/monthly/seasonally/occasionally)?
With whom?
Is any cost involved with it?
Why there among other places?
News-walls: What’s their use? Who does use them?
4.8. Social interaction between different groups:
What is the behaviour?
Which is perception of social difference?
Economical interaction may be there, but what about social interaction?
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PART 2 – 2.1. Physical Field - Spatial practice
Fig. 2: Age of the respondents
Age group Frequency
From 1 to 15 years 6
From 16 to 30 years 42
From 31 to 45 years 18
From 46 to 60 years 26
More than 61 years 8
Total 100
Fig. 3: Living areas of the respondents according to their income group
Income
group
New areas Old town Traditional
urban areas
Informal
settlement
Upper
class areas
Fringes Others
n=39 n=17 n=15 n=16 n=2 n=6 n=5
Group 1 12,8 17,6 6,7 56,3 - 16,7 -
Group 2 7,7 5,9 - 31,3 - 66,7 -
Group 3 25,6 17,6 20,0 12,5 - - 60,0
Group 4 28,2 35,3 6,7 - - - 20,0
Group 5 23,1 17,6 33,3 - - 16,7 20,0
Group 6 2,6 5,9 33,3 - 100 - -
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
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Fig. 4: Living areas of the respondents of group 1
Fig. 5: Living areas of the respondents of group 2
Fig. 6: Living areas of the respondents of group 3
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Fig. 7: Living areas of the respondents of group 4
Fig. 8: Living areas of the respondents of group 5
Fig. 9: Living areas of the respondents of group 6
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Fig. 10: Profession of the respondents according to their income group
Income
group
Not
working
Self-initiat-
ive based
work
Transport Industry
and
artisans
Public and
semi-public
work
Clerical
work and
service
Students
n=14 n=24 n=3 n=7 n=18 n=15 n=19
Group 1 57,1 20,8 33,3 14,3 5,6 13,3 5,3
Group 2 - 20,8 33,3 42,9 11,1 13,3 -
Group 3 - 37,5 33,3 28,6 5,6 13,3 31,6
Group 4 14,3 16,7 - 14,3 16,7 26,7 26,3
Group 5 21,4 4,2 - - 38,9 20,0 26,3
Group 6 7,1 - - - 22,2 13,3 10,5
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Fig. 11: Profession of the respondents according to their gender
Profession Women Men
n=42 n=58
Not working 26,2 5,2
Self-initiative based work 19,0 27,6
Transport - 5,2
Industry and artisans 4,8 8,6
Public and semi-public work 28,6 10,3
Clerical work and service 9,5 19,0
Students 11,9 24,1
Total 100 100
Fig. 12: Marital status of the respondents according to their income group
Income group Not married Married Other
n=42 n=54 n=4
Group 1 9,5 20,4 100
Group 2 4,8 20,4 -
Group 3 28,6 16,7 -
Group 4 26,2 14,8 -
Group 5 23,8 16,7 -
Group 6 7,1 11,1 -
Total 100 100 100
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Fig. 13: Marital status of the respondents according to their education
Education Not married Married Other
n=42 n=54 n=4
No formal education 9,5 35,2 50,0
Primary education 14,3 20,4 25,0
Secondary education 23,8 16,7 25,0
Higher secondary education 33,3 3,7 -
University education 16,7 22,2 -
Professor 2,4 1,9 -
Total 100 100 100
Fig. 14: Education of the respondents according to their income group
Income
group
No formal
education
Primary
education
Secondary
education
Higher
secondary
education
University
education
Professor
n=25 n=18 n=20 n=16 n=19 n=2
Group 1 40,0 38,9 10,0 - - -
Group 2 36,0 11,1 10,0 - - -
Group 3 24,0 22,2 45,0 12,5 - -
Group 4 - 27,8 20,0 31,3 26,3 -
Group 5 - - 15,0 37,5 42,1 100
Group 6 - - - 18,8 31,6 -
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100
Fig. 15: Education of the respondents according to their gender
Education Women Men
n=42 n=58
No formal education 21,4 27,6
Primary education 23,8 13,8
Secondary education 16,7 22,4
Higher secondary education 14,3 17,2
University education 21,4 17,2
Professor 2,4 1,7
Total 100 100
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Fig. 16: Years spent in Dhaka according to the respondents’ income groups
Income
group
Born in
Dhaka
Less than
1 year in
Dhaka
From 1 to
5 years in
Dhaka
From 6 to
15 years in
Dhaka
From 16
to 30 years
in Dhaka
From 31
to 50 years
in Dhaka
More than
51 years in
Dhaka
n=45 n=2 n=7 n=14 n=17 n=13 n=1
Group 1 8,9 - - 21,4 23,5 53,8 100
Group 2 13,3 50,0 14,3 7,1 11,8 15,4 -
Group 3 17,8 50,0 57,1 28,6 11,8 15,4 -
Group 4 20,0 - 14,3 21,4 23,5 7,7 -
Group 5 24,4 - - 21,4 23,5 7,7 -
Group 6 15,6 - 14,3 - 5,9 - -
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Fig. 17: Relationship between years spent in Dhaka and income groups
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Fig. 18: Age groups according to Dhaka Census 2001, selected areas
Thana From 1 to 15
years
From 16 to 34
years
From 35 to 60
years
More than 61
years
%%%%
Dhanmondi 23,43 49,58 23.01 3,95
Gulshan 27,77 49,30 20,80 3,11
- Karail 33,24 46,32 18,28 2,13
Kotwali 23,52 51,13 21,45 3,88
Lalbagh 27,38 48,71 20,23 3,66
Mohammadpur 30,32 45,80 20,34 3,53
Motijheel 24,72 48,18 23,63 3,45
Ramna 23,97 50,25 21,92 3,84
Total 26,79 48,66 21,20 3,44
Fig. 19: Sex ratio and literacy according to Dhaka Census 2001, interview locations
Nr. Location Ward Sex ratio Literacy
m/f %
1Badda 21 110 71,51
3a Dhanmondi Residential 49 124 78,17
3b Khala Bagan 51 125 79,54
3c New Market 52 173 82,32
4 Gulshan 19 132 62,72
Karail 1 108 53,06
Karail 2 113 49,39
7 Rampura 22 121 76,52
8 Bonogram 74 166 73,45
9a Tejgaon 39 132 74,58
9b Monipuri Para 40 120 83,25
10a Nawabpur 70 204 73,94
10b Bangla Bazaar 73 260 76,48
10b Shakhari Bazaar 73 121 84,10
11 Azimpur 62 103 78,00
12 Mirpur 2 7 117 80,61
13a Shyamoli 45 132 81,98
13b Geneva Camp 45 107 31,17
13c Mohammadpur 44 121 80,40
15 Uttara 1 127 65,67
16a Mirpur 1 8 115 67,37
16b Bhashantek 15 108 68,01
17 DU Campus/Shahbagh 57 175 84,71
DHAKA 108 64,79
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Fig. 20: Religious groups according to Dhaka Census 2001, interview locations
Nr. Location Ward Muslim Hindu Buddhist Christian
% % % %
1 Badda 21 95,11 3,79 0,96 <0,1
3a Dhanmondi Residential 49 96,02 3,36 0,43 <0,1
3b Khala Bagan 51 95,19 4,08 0,51 0,16
3c New Market 52 95,34 4,23 0,21 0,16
4 Gulshan 19 96,93 1,72 1,11 <0,1
Karail 1 98,94 0,84 0,19 <0,1
Karail 2 96,93 2,34 0,54 <0,1
7 Rampura 22 96,30 3,44 0,14 <0,1
8 Bonogram 74 90,21 9,71 <0,1 <0,1
9a Tejgaon 39 91,83 3,39 4,56 0,12
9b Monipuri Para 40 86,17 5,97 7,54 0,24
10a Nawabpur 70 99,20 0,74 <0,1 <0,1
10b Bangla Bazaar 73 85,92 12,07 1,62 <0,1
10b Shakhari Bazaar 73 2,50 97,5 <0,1 <0,1
11 Azimpur 62 95,89 3,85 0,11 0,12
12 Mirpur 2 7 97,93 1,59 0,41 <0,1
13a Shyamoli 45 93,80 5,08 0,88 0,22
13b Geneva Camp 45 99,89 0,11 <0,1 <0,1
13c Mohammadpur 44 97,05 1,98 0,79 0,15
15 Uttara 1 97,19 2,06 0,51 0,20
16a Mirpur 1 8 98,49 1,34 0,12 <0,1
16b Bhashantek 15 99,22 0,69 <0,1 <0,1
17 DU Campus/Shahbagh 57 90,43 8,88 0,29 0,34
DHAKA 94,23 5,18 0,5 <0,1
Fig. 21: Working women for occupation2
Occupation Thousands %
Professional, Technical 203 10,3
Administrative, Managerial 11 0,6
Clerical Workers 68 3,5
Sale Workers 122 6,2
Service Workers 426 21,6
Agriculture, Forest, Fishery 300 15,3
Production, Transport 4 0,2
Laborers, Others 832 42,3
Total 1967 100,0
2 Source: Labour Force Survey Bangladesh 1999-2000, Planning Division, Ministry of Planning, Gover-
nment of Bangladesh, p-40.
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Fig. 22: Basic infrastructural services, interview locations
Nr. Location Ward Drinking Water % Hygienic Services
%
Electricity
%
Tap Tube well Sanitary Others
1Badda 21 89,7 9,4 94,3 5,5 97,8
3a Dhanmondi Residential 49 98,3 0,95 99,6 0,39 99,1
3b Khala Bagan 51 98,6 0,82 99,5 0,35 99,1
3c New Market 52 94,7 3,67 97,8 1,47 98,2
4Gulshan 19 51,8 36,5 70,8 27,3 67,9
7Rampura 22 89,2 9,6 93,4 6,1 79,5
8Bonogram 74 88,5 9,1 98,7 1,1 99,0
9a Tejgaon 39 91,4 5,4 93,1 4,3 95,7
9b Monipuri Para 40 96,8 2,1 93,9 4,8 98,8
10a Nawabpur 70 85,0 10,7 98,4 1,5 98,7
10b Bangla Bazaar 73 99,1 0 100 - 99,9
10b Shakhari Bazaar 73 71,16 25,8 99,43 0,5 99,0
11 Azimpur 62 98,3 1,4 98,9 0,9 99,5
12 Mirpur 2 7 97,0 1,53 97,4 2,4 98,6
13a Shyamoli 45 93,7 5,85 96,45 3,4 99,3
13b Geneva Camp 45 89,19 10,66 92,76 7,13 99,0
13c Mohammadpur 44 94,6 4,3 99,5 0,45 99,1
15 Uttara 1 63,9 23,5 66,3 27,9 67,3
16a Mirpur 1 8 80,4 15,0 83,8 14,9 94,0
16b Bhashantek 15 70,0 28,6 93,6 5,2 98,9
17 DU Campus/Shahbagh 57 98,9 0,4 97,5 2,2 98,3
DHAKA 56,85 39,54 76,6 19,72 88,75
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Fig. 23: Density, according to Dhaka Census 2001, of interview locations3
Nr. Location Ward sq. km Inhabitants Density
(inh./sq. km)
1 Badda 21 3,88 70.708 18.223
3a Dhanmondi Residential 49 2,90 46.017 15.867
3b Khala Bagan 51 0,62 39.478 63.674
3c New Market 52 1,695 62.078 36.624
4 Gulshan 19 5,74 74.336 12.950
7 Rampura 22 2,14 86.363 40.281
8 Bonogram 74 0,415 49.146 118.424
9a Tejgaon 39 1,20 41.616 34.680
9b Monipuri Para 40 3,68 72.685 19.751
10a Nawabpur 70 0,28 47.632 170.114
10b Bangla and Shakhari Bazaar 73 0,315 23.725 75.317
11 Azimpur 62 0,785 48.066 61.230
12 Mirpur 2 7 1,56 44.950 28.814
13a Shyamoli 45 1,39 46.817 33.681
13b Geneva Camp 45 - - -
13c Mohammadpur 44 0,61 41.922 68.724
15 Uttara 1 5,97 66.636 11.161
16a Mirpur 1 8 4,43 81.168 18.322
16b Bhashantek 15 4,84 98.882 2.041
17 DU Campus/Shahbagh 57 1,125 36.071 32.063
3Dhaka Zila: 5.833 / Dhaka DCC: 14.608; Comparison: Density Kolkata City: 28.805; Mumbai City:
31.214/Mumbai Metro: 4.792; Berlin: 3.820; Berlin/Kreuzberg: 14.239.
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Fig. 24: Proportion of respondents living in old town
Fig. 25: Proportion of respondents living in traditional „urban“ areas
Fig. 26: Proportion of respondents living in new areas
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Fig. 27: Proportion of respondents living in slums, squatters and informal settlements
Fig. 28: Proportion of respondents living in „upper class“ areas
Fig. 29: Proportion of respondents living in fringes
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Fig. 30: Respondents’ reasons for choosing their living area
(multiple response table)
Reason New areas Old town Traditional
urban areas
Informal
settlement
Upper
class areas
Fringes Others
n=39 n=17 n=15 n=16 n=2 n=6 n=5
Identity of place - 17,6 20,0 - 16,7 -
Social network 41,0 41,2 33,3 37,5 50,0 16,7 -
Bondage by birth 10,3 17,6 13,3 6,3 - 16,7 20,0
Affordability 20,5 35,3 33,3 37,5 - 33,3 20,0
Free of rent
/subsidised home 5,1 - 13,3 50,0 - - 40,0
Logistics and
infrastructure 43,6 41,2 40,0 12,5 50,0 50,0 20,0
Security 20,5 5,9 13,3 18,8 50,0 33,3 20,0
Quality of
environment 35,9 11,8 20,0 6,3 100 16,7 20,0
Status 5,1 5,9 26,7 - - 16,7 -
Centrality 5,1 11,8 - - - - -
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Fig. 31: Respondents’ profession according to their living area
Living Area Not
working
Self-initiat-
ive based
work
Transport Industry
and
artisans
Public and
semi-public
work
Clerical
work and
service
Students
n=14 n=24 n=3 n=7 n=18 n=15 n=19
New areas 42,9 37,5 33,3 71,4 27,8 20,0 52,6
Old town 14,3 12,5 - 14,3 16,7 40,0 10,5
Traditional
urban areas 14,3 - - - 27,8 26,7 21,1
Informal
settlement 21,4 33,3 33,3 - 11,1 6,7 5,3
Upper class
areas - - - - 11,1 - -
Fringes 7,1 4,2 33,3 14,3 5,6 6,7 -
Others - 12,5 - - - - 10,5
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
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Fig. 32: Street view of Shakhari Bazaar4
Fig. 33: Plot view of Shakhari Bazaar5
4Source: Abu H. Imamuddin, Shamim Ara Hassan, Wahidul Alam: Shakari Patti: A unique old city sett-
lement, Dhaka. In Abu H. Imamuddin and Karen R. Longeteig (eds.) (1990): Architectural and Urban
Conservation in the Islamic World. Geneva: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
5Ibid.
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Fig. 35: Commercial establishments (category based) in Dhanmondi Residential Area7
Establishments Category Number
Educational
institutions
Schools 44
Colleges 6
Universities 12
Other institutions (coaching, computer learning centre, etc.) 12
Commercial
establishments
Banks 15
Community centre 08
Departmental store and confectionery 24
Fast Food and restaurants 16
NGO offices 20
Miscellaneous offices 66
Others (business enterprises not included in listed categories) 43
Shops -
Tailors, boutiques and beauty parlours 19
Health care
Clinics 31
Hospital 16
Pathological Lab 14
Diagnostic centre 12
Games and sports
Abahani Club Ltm. -
Kalabagan Sporting Club -
Women's Sporting Complex -
Dhanmondi Club -
7Source: Salma A. Shafi, July 2004.
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2.2. Mental Field – Representations of space
Interview transcriptions1
New Market, 9.9. 2007 10 am
1.1. Mohammad Pannu
1.2. male
1.3. married, 2 children
1.4. B
1.5. a) primary
1.6. Islam
1.7. fruit seller (before he used to be a tailor, but he couldn't make a life and thus changed
to this job)
1.8. In new market (question whether it is no problem as he's selling on the pavement,
which has been forbidden by the new caretaker-government: actually I have some prob-
lems with the police as it as been forbidden to sell on the street and footpaths around new
Market, but this only happens sometimes and the Market committee is nice to me, they al-
low me to stay here. I have never been asked for money by the police, however)
1.9. I live alone in Ahiubali Colony (near new market), my family is in the village.
1.10. I am sharing a house (tin-roofed room) with 6 people, the rent for us costs 2,200 Tk a
month, individually I pay 320.
1.10.a. No. Always here, since I have moved to Dhaka, but now I am living alone in this
room.
1.11. Yes, I like it. I know it very well and I am feeling confident. Actually, we are poor
and we don't have any other choice, so we have to like it. I like the Mirpur zoo, the botan-
ical garden, Gulshan, Dhanmondi and New market because different kinds of people come
here.
1.12. A (< 3.000)
1.13. We lived in Shyamoly when I was a child, but then we moved to the Colony after a
while.
1.14. I have lived here for 20 years, but my relatives nad family live outside and I am miss-
ing them. We moved here with some relatives.
2.1. NEW MARKET
2.2. I would like to visit my family in the village more often, but I can go there only once
in three months (Magaripur district) as it costs 120Tk (one way). Everyday I go to Kawran
Bazaar or sham Bazaar.
1The following pages reproduce the original interview transcriptions as delivered by the assistant and
were not edited by the author. They were accompanied, in the evaluation, by the own notes, sketches
and memories. Cf. questionnaire for number of each question.
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2.3. On foot, bus or rickshaw. For transporting my products, if I can't do alone carrying
them on my hat, I rent a rickshaw-van and transport them like this
2.4. I wake up at 6-7, go to Kawran Bazaar, Sham Bazaar (Old Dhaka, near Shadar Gaht),
Gazipur and Chuithan (other side of Buriganga), then I come to New market which opens
at 10, I reach here by 10-11. I don't have to go to the whole-sale markets everyday, 2-3
times a week will be enough.
2.5. New market is only closed on Wednesday, in this case I go to sell my products in other
places, preferably in melas because there I can earn pretty good. It also happens that I have
problems with the police and then remain at home one whole day.
2.6. No friends, my brother is here.
2.7. I am not a member, but I have a good relationship to the Committed of the New mar-
ket. They love me and allow me to sell here although I am a pavement seller.
2.9. There are more women! They move around because of job...
3.1. ...people in Dhaka remain the same, but Dhaka has more density and more chaos,
which is also interesting
4.1. I pray in the Mosque of the New market, but only on Friday.
4.1. a. I actually used to like to go, sometimes, to Shah Ali Mazaar in Mirpur, but since
fake people go there, I have stopped to go. Baitul Moqurrum Mosque (behind stadium).
4.2. For the Eid last year I went to my village, but I couldn't do it for the Korbani. I like to
participate with my family in the village, but I'm not able to join every time and thus I re-
main in Dhaka. I have no friends in Dhaka, my friends are in the village (after 20
years???). For Eid, I feel the wish to buy some presents for my relatives in the village, if I
can't manage, then I prefer not to go. My brother is also living in Dhaka, sometimes we
travel together to the village.
4.3. I don't go far, I take a rest as the New Market is closed. I just have a look in the area
around my house, but never look for other programmes.
4.5. Savar and Coach Barah (area beyond the Buriganga – on the other side of second
bridge), this is actually a place where you can get an idea of Bangladesh rather than Dhaka.
It's on the way to go to my village.
4.6. No, I just hear about politics from people, but I don't know much about it as I am poor
and politics is not for us. The news are just transmitted to us from other visitors of the Mar-
ket, I get to know things through the people who work and visit here. If someone knows
something, he will come and tell it, making ADDA, in the corner, and so we know what's
happening.
11-1-2007 VASANTEK 4
1. A Mannan
2. m
3. Married - 6 children
4. D
5. no
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6. Islam
7. I am worker (day labor of dhaka city corporation)
8. Entire Dhaka City
9. Vasantek from 1974
10. Here housing is free
1.10a Mogbazar for 5-6 years
1.11. This is a slum but I am living here for a long time so I know a lot of people here and
we were always afraid of eviction when we lived at Mogbazar.
1.12 A ) 3.000
1.13. Nohakali, where I come from
1.14. last 40 years
2.1 Vasantek bazaar, on foot
2.2. Daily Banani – from there I start my daily work, that is the work distribution place 2.3.
On foot – staff road + bus
2.4 I have duty from 7am to 2pm ; when I come home, I have a lot of goats (10) to take
care of. Sometimes at evening I spend time at the tea stall nearby.
2.5 I have no holiday
2.6. All the labors work together as a friend because we spend a lot of time together
2.9. nowadays girls are more, they are learning, also my daughter is a teacher .
3.2. My father died when I was very child and my mother for food came to Dhaka and
work a maid servant and I grow up here in slum
3.3 The people are very bad here, nobody will help me if I fall in trouble
3.4. no difference, when migrants comes first few days they fall trouble but afterwards they
learn to cope with the inhabitants and become the same
4.1. rarely, here in the mosque
4.2. Eid! 1 kg of meat costs 250 Tk, how do I provide good food for my family, without
good food eid is meaningless for all the slum dwellers! ...some rich people have enough
meat in their refrigerator but never distribute during Eid .
4.3. that’s function for young people, I just observe
4.5. Vasantek seems to me good because its seems to me my place.
4.6. I watch the TV news
4.7. no, never
4.8. Ijazuddin
December 05, 2006, Old town Sadarghat (Sakhari bazaar)
1.1 Horidas Datta
1.2 male
1.3 married, 5 children
1.4 no education
1.5 60
1.6 Hindu
1.7. I am a Shankha maker. I am doing this job for last 45 years. Once it was hand made
but now mechanized.
1.9 I live permanently in shankhari bazar
1.10 I don’t have to pay for this but have small taxes or others
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1.10a no, this is my birth place, I never lived anywhere outside old town.
1.11 yes, I like this place, this is a place of my forefather and here have different culture
and work, this is a very special area where you can find out such profession like Shakha or
others. here we live like a cluster of relatives and others like friends.
1.12. 1.500-2.000
1.14 I don’t know the exact figure but 5-6 generation.
2.1 From Royshaheb Bazar
2.2. no, my only place is shop. shop – residence is my moving way. I sometimes, rarely, go
to some places in New Dhaka but never stay there for a long time.
2.3 on foot
2.4 making shaka/ shopping for my family/I have to do some work for my family etc
2.5.a. I have no holiday or something like that.
2.6. I have no regular friends. sometimes I go to doctor or other professionals for some
purposive work.
2.9. numbers of Hindu women are more than the Muslim, because they are under religious
and family pressure.
3.1. yes. This is my root. I have everything and all known people here.
3.4. no there is no special difference, I can only mention some difference during festive not
other time. Inhabitants are active in festive rather than migrant.
4.1. Kalimondir (Shakaharibazar), I am also member of the Puja committee
4.1.a During jon mostamy I took part in procession, both young boys and girls go there but
girls are less in number
4.2. Dhaka, here all my relatives live together so... festivities are not that important for me.
I may do some new programme with common people. I never move outside Dhaka during
religious festive because we all relatives live nearer.
4.3. yes, no particular program I can remember now, but I am not so interested about new
Dhaka and the function of the institutions there. I have no interest to learn everything.
4.4 I spend at home, watch TV, talk with family members about family matter, nothing
more.
4.6. newspapers and friends
4.8. BNP and Awami league is center of power politics.
Shyamoli
1.1.Mithu mia
1.2.m
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 28
1.5. secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. Van puller
1.8.Mohammadpur, Dhanmondi, Hazaribag, Adabor
1.9. North Adabar/ Mehedibug / Balur Math
1.10 Rented hut for 800/month
1.10a Old town, Postogola - beside Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge
1.11 Adabor and Postogola are very different, postogola where I lived few years ago was
compatible to my income, because that place is specially for poor people, there are some
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food shops from where one can get cheaper food, I didn’t have to pay for bath cause I
could go in the pond. In the contrary, from Adabor you can go any where very quickly, bus
transport is easier.
1.12. 3.000Tk
1.13. Munshigonj and Gaibandah – I wanted to leave my relatives and now I am living
alone, most of them are not so friendly.
1.14 18 years
2.1 Food from a mess (collective cooking for mostly single people by a women), it takes
1000 tk /month, Gulistan and Adabor Bazaar is my place for shirts or pants.
2.2. I am a van puller and I go everywhere by van.
2.3 Van, bus if I go for my personal work
2.4. from morning to evening I work hard, carry goods from here to there, in between this
time I act as a source of information of police, I always sharply observe people and inform
the Mohammadpur police about the wanted people.
2.5 A nothing is holiday for me, If I declare it by myself, then that is my holiday.
2.6 most of my friends are van puller. we meet everyday, tea stall or some food shop (espe-
cially halim shop) in Shyamoly. I meet police, criminal, and van puller but I don’t like
women nowadays.
3.1. I love my village very much but not my relatives - they were harmful for me, for leav-
ing any region, no matter if you come from there or not, there must be some reason, like I
left Old Dhaka for my profession, I left my village to make my life better than that of my
relatives.
3.2. I came to dhaka for money and my improvement, there is no disadvantages, it's far
better than my village, here I have food - that’s the most and first thing.
3.4. inhabitants are powerful, they are respectable because they are living here long time,
migrants are not, there have some language difference also because migrants came from
different districts
4.1. Mosque, infrequent, but must in Friday
4.1.a Mirpur Shah Ali majar is a very good place, I feel happy to go there.
4.2. Gaibandah – with my friends and family, I like to watch movie in cinema hall with
other family members
4.3. yes, shahid minar, I like street drama, most of the time I saw that drama at shahid mi-
nar or near Dhanmondi lake
4.4. with friends, I have no girl friend because they burn your heart, sometimes they are be-
trayers
4.5. Bosila area, it's just beside Mohammadpur, there is a medical college called Shikder
medical college, a water body, I go there with some of my friends every week.
4.6. BBC from road side tea stall, it's better than Bangladesh redio news
4.7. no
4.8. People is the power in BD, but now it belong to care taker govt. it's usual people
change the govt . through protest.
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04-01-2007, Mirpur 2
1.1 Amir Ali
1.2 male
1.3 married, four children
1.4 60+
1.5 no
1.6 Islam
1.7.Cleaner (National heart foundation)
1.8. Mirpur
1.9 Slum (Mirpur 2), I live there with my wife and our youngest son
1.10 I have got a govt house in Mirpur 11, E block there my elder son and daughter live
1.10a Vasantek, I was there till '89
1.11 I am old and I have to work 24 hours a day, for that reason I live in the nearby slum, I
couldn't remain in Bhashantek which is too far away. This place is good - all the
people are good.
1.12 less than 3000Tk. once I have more income now I am not capable to do more
1.14 During the period of General Aiub Khan.
3.1. during Pakistan period I have different expectation now everything changed. I do a
great mistake to decide to live here. If I had migrated to India, I think my situation
go another direction. Now everyone is selfish. Money is the main element of the
society. Old men have no right to live a good life.
2.1 mirpur - 2 , some people give me old dresses, that’s all.
2.2. Daily, at working place, and weekly I go to Mirpur 11, my daughter's place.
2.3. bus
2.4. my duty is 24 hours when office call me or order me .
2.5 A) there is no holiday in hospital
2.6 I am not a harmful people so everyone is my friend. I work for everyone .
2.9. women are more now due to garments. I am against women’s work, they should only
take care and entertain their husbands and families.
3.1. Dhaka is a mysterious place some people destroyed and some get prosperity. No dif
ference between the inhabitant and migrant .
4.1. The Muslim community enjoys 2 big festivals, but everyone is self centered, does
nothing for the poor who have no ability to buy something special for Eid. Howev
er, Hindus have a lot of puja and their community arranges the festivals for all. poor
people also can join there - this is our fate...
4.2. no, but sometimes my office arrange good food during social festival - they give me
food if have something exceeds.
4.4. if I have no work I stay alone and think lot of things like past present and about Allah
and death.
4.5. The Bengal which used to be called sonar bangla is nowadays no sonar bangla any
more - everything was rubbed by british, Pakistani and now rich people.
4.6. I am not a voter, not a citizen, I am just a burden. I have no values, leaders are every
thing
4.8. we are beggars and dependent that’s due to our fault, once we had everything but we
lost it due to our fault, we don’t know how to use our country and people. Power is
confined in some people and their wish.
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Vasantek 5 , 11-01 -2007
1.1. Abu baker Siddique
1.2. malle
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 14.
1.5. Primary
1.6.Islam
1.7. I used to work in a flower cultivation field, actually I have been working there for last
8 years but I'm unemployed now.
1.8. Baburtek (Bhashantek
1.9. Baburtek with my parents – I have 3 sisters.
1.10 We don’t have to pay any rent for the house but we have to pay some rent for the land
1.10a Dewan para Bhasantek, there we had to pay for both – house-rent and land-rent
1.11 Both place is the same except some difference regarding the house-rent, but I like the
place where I am living now more, bus stop is nearer, the nursery I work in is nearer.
1.12 1.000, including my father’s loan it’s not more than 4000.
1.13 I lived a short while at Kishorgonj when I was a child, I liked that place
1.14 14 years
2.14a
2.1. I go to market alone, I spend a lot of time there to choose something for me or my
family and buy it.
2.2 Daily: my working place and every 2-3 days I go to Mirpur to visit my maternal uncles’
house.
2.3. Bus for Mirpur or Gulshan, otherwise on foot or rickshaw.
2.4. When I work, I walk on the street a bit before being at the nursery (8am) and return
home at 3pm, then I meet my friends, at 8pm I return home for food and sleep.
2.5 I don’t have any work on Friday, I go to Banarashi Math and play cricket. I have no
wish to go anywhere with girls. Sometimes I go to Shishu Park with some of my male
friends.
2.6. I have a lot of friends, students, rickshaw pullers, nursery workers. All of my friends
are very good, they share everything even money
2.9. Boys and men are more on the streets, they are interested in what happens outside, but
girls are less because they are not so interested.
3.1. I live in Dhaka with my parents but most of my relatives live in a village, still now I
love them from heart. People of my village is more simple than in Dhaka
3.2. My mother was angry with my father, she flew and came to Dhaka with me, then my
father searched us and met my mother - now we are living together. I like Dhaka because
here there is electricity, but I do not understand the way sometime police arrests people
without any reason. Sometimes innocent people die, that’s bad.
3.4. Yes, there is a difference, the inhabitants who live here for a long time know every-
thing very well, they have a lot of support, they are more important people, migrants are
not.
4.1. Friday, mosque
4.2. Eid in Dhaka, Farmgate and Dhanmondi Lake. When I visited that place I made some
group pictures with my friends.
4.2.a Ramna, Air Force Head Quarter (cantonment), fair
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4.4. I seat in a tea stall. Fantasy Kingdom seems to me a good place, but I can’t go there
because I don’t have the necessary money for the ticket.
4.5. Dhanmondi, lake park
4.6. TV, from people, from street poster
4.7. yes, Palton with my friends because they provide some good food (tea, others) and
sometimes money.
4.8. Caretaker Govt.
19-12-2006, Mohammadpur
1.1 Fulbanu
1.2 female
1.3.married, I have no husband now, but I have a son, who is a bus helper.
1.4 60+
1.5 NO
1.6 Islam
1.7. I sometimes attend my brother's shop (by cycle repairing shop on the road)
1.8 Mohammadpur
1.9 Taj Mahal Road / Mohammadpur
1.10 We live in a rented katcha basa for 1,100Tk /month (my sister and son pay the rent)
1.10a Before, we used to live in MOGBAZAR, but then my husband died and we moved
to my sister.
1.13 Faridpur , my elder sister’s live there, every year I go there once, but I like Dhaka bet-
ter because of electricity.
1.14 30-40 years
2.1 Town hall bazaar, ,,Refugee Bazaar” (Geneva Camp Bazaar)
2.2. I move daily from home, to the town hall market and to my brother’s shop.
2.3. On foot / sometimes by rickshaw
2.4. I go to market for vegetable and fish, I cook food, take care of my brother and his
garage of cycle (repairing shop), if he is absent I watch out for his tools.
2.5. I have no holiday, but if I am sick
2.6 yes, customers, some known to me
2.7 yes, bank, I have an account (deposit pension scheme)
2.9. Nowadays more women are on the streets rather than the past
3. 1.Yes, because my sisters are living in Dhaka, too. It is they who brought me to Dhaka
from our village, my son has grown up here, I also used to work here – in the last years, I
made cakes and sold them on the street. But now, my son doesn't love me anymore and
doesn't give me any money, so I am totally out of income. Although I had problems at the
beginning, nowadays after so many years I like Dhaka. There is light in the huts, and every
facility, here there is anything which is still absent in my village.
3.2. In village my sisters are poor, here I am happy. at first I came here for work, there is
no work in village, at the beginning I was a maid servant.
4.1. It never interested me who belongs to what religion.
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4.2. We stay here for Eid, too. During Eid, I cook good food, my son is everything I have,
he gives me all his income and I spend as necessary to prepare something to eat for those
days.
4.3. no
4.5. The most beautiful place is my brother's repairing shop
4.6.TV
2.8 I like to watch procession but never take part
VASANTEK 4, 11-01-2007
1.1. md. Kafil uddin
1.2. m
1.3 Married
1.4 60 +
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. no, for a long time I am out of work, when my son matured I stopped working. Once I
worked as a farmer
1.9 Vasantek from 1974
1.10 Don’t have to pay anybody
1.10a Ibrahimpur for 7-8 years
1.11. Neighbours are very good, they help me, sometimes I can't walk – they just help me
to return home or give me medicine I am sick
1.12 I have no income, I am depended on my son
1.13 Barishal
1.14 45 years
2.1 my 2 son provides food and cloths
2.2. weekly – for shopping (Kachabazar), or walking to the near main road
2.3. Rickshaw / on foot
2.4 I help my wife at cooking and washing because she can't do alone, she is so sick.
2.5 A no
2.9. Male and female are equal in number. My wife never works outside home, still now I
bring water from tube, but nowadays things are changing, no, I think that’s not a problem if
women do work outside .
3.3. I have stopped to work long time ago, I know little about people who live outside this
slum.
4.1. mosque – I always spend some time there and talk with the other men about the last
news, at my age I am not active an more, my life is actually limited to this slum and thus
the exchange with younger males from the slum gives me ideas and information on activi-
ties going on. For example, and though I am not active and I do not go to the party office, I
know about political activities through the mosque talks.
4.2. during Eid, my son called me and sent some meat for us, which we cooked
4.4. I spend a lot of time here, in this tea stall, they sometimes offer me a free tea. I like tea.
4.5. Vasantek is nice, nobody will kick me out from here
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11-01-2007, Vasantek - 2
1.1. Bibi Moriom
1.4. 50 + (don't know exactly)
1.2. female
1.6. Islam
1.5. primary
1.7. I sell cloths, I buy in Gulistan and sell in different place, like hawker
1.8. Different places near or far from uttra
1.3. married
1.9. Vasantek, I came here during 1974
1.10 No we don’t have to pay house rent
1.10a Kawran bazaar slum for 8 years before Vasantek
1.11. Vasantek is congested as a lot a people live here, but Kawran bazar is on the roadside,
there is more dust and danger. So, this place is good
1.12 3000
1.13. Noakhali
1.14. 40 years
2.1. I buy everything from vasantek bazaar because every vegetable is cheap there, from
Gulistan I buy old clothes.
2.2. Daily – khilkhet, bishoroad, abdullahpur, baunia, manikdi
2.3. Sometimes on foot or bus
2.4. go to kacha bazaar / I start my selling journey from 9am and I'm finished at 5-6pm.
Sometimes it takes more time because I have gone far away and it takes me longer to come
back, I walk a lot whole day so I feel tired and go for sleep after taking food
2.5. I make holiday only when I feel sick and I need to take a rest.
2.6 yes, I know a lot of women, who are my customers - some of them love me very much
2.7 ASK (NGO) – we save money
2.9. men are more, but sometimes, like middle of the day, females are more. at large, wom-
en are less outside due to family problem.
3.2. I came to Dhaka for work. I have spend my entire life in search of better food and bet-
ter life, but yet I have not reached it
3.3. The people of Dhaka is good. I sell cloths door to door but I never face any sort of
trouble, none had bad behavior with me
4.1. Very few
4.2. Eid – vasantek , this year I bought a small chicken and that was the main event
4.3. I never went there
4.4. Most of time I feel sick or tired after work, so I stay at home.
4.5. Abdullahpur where I spend most of time is a good place for me
4.6. hear from other women or TV
4.7. no political, when people come to kick out from our place then we go procession with
other women
4.8. I don’t know
04-01-2007, Mirpur 2
1.1 Achia
1.2 female
1.3. married, 3 children
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1.4 35
1.5 no
1.6 Islam
1.7 Shopkeeper (owner)
1.8. Mirpur - 2
1.9 JANATA housing, Mirpur -1
1.10 Rented house -2000
1.10a Mirpur - 10, I am living here with my family for last 10 years
1.11 yes, I established a tea stall 16 years ago and that is my earning source up to now. I
had to change the location of my stall within one kilometer along this street, but still I have
a shop for which I don’t have to pay. That's quite impossible in other localities of Dhaka,
and for that it’s a very good place. Also, here there is a society which provides me loan for
business.
1.12 if I sell 1000Tk, then the profit is 50Tk, so my monthly benefit is 3000tk.
1.13 Faridpur
1.14 16 years
2.1 generally, my mother goes to the market for daily shopping, and my husband buys
clothes for our family
2.2. my only moving way is house to shop
2. 3 walking distance
2.4. I spend my whole day in my shop, I take even lunch here. Sometimes my daughter
comes to help me, sometimes also my mother comes to help because she lives with us. My
working time here is from early morning - like 4am - to midnight.
2.5 I have no vacation.
2.6. I am a member of a women society for saving money, the members are my friends –
also some of my regular customers has become nowadays my friends. I haven’t enough
time to talk with other women even my nearby residence
2.7. yes Kolmilata women society. Once I was a member of ASA society
2.9 male are more in number and there is no place only for women.
3.1. I like Dhaka city because once I came here with my mother due to poverty and work
as a maid servant and my mother arrange a marriage with a driver and then I try to do
something by my own and my husband help me enough . I just sell goods and my husband
do all other works. That’s all my life.
3.2. my father died when I was child , my mother come to Dhaka with me and work a lot ,
that was a hard time . I grown up here and work a lot . that’s a long history . my village
memory is becoming fade in my mind.
4.1. I haven’t time for pray
4.2. I spend most of the religious festival in Dhaka. Most of the time I try to buy good
cloths for my children and husbands, that’s my joy during Eid. I have a wish to make Kur-
bani but I can't, so I usually make semai (a special food out of semolino, typical of Eid )
and hotch-potch for my family as a special meal.
4.3. no
4.4. no I just sleep more
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10-01-2007, Motijheel
1.1. Fatema
1.2. f
1.3. My husband died long ago. I have 2 sons and 2 daughters
1.4. 451.6. islam
1.5. no
1.6. Islam
1.7. begging
1.8. Motijheel, Shapla Chatter
1.9. I live in Mugda / manda
1.10. Rented katcha basa 600 Tk/month
1.11. Yes, it’s cheaper and free of problems
1.12. 1500
1.14. after 1971
2.1. from mugda bazaar, people sometimes give some old cloths that’s all.
2.2. Daily – motijheel
2.3. On foot
2.4. I cook food for all day at morning and come to motijheel then I return at night .
2.5. I come here Friday also, I have a brother who polishes shoe and seat down there for
begging
2.9. equal, but in motijheel women are less because it’s a place of business
3.2.I came here for food with parents
3.3. here in motijheel people sometime feel sympathy to the poor and help
4.2. during Eid I go to door to door and collect meat.
4.5. faridur, that’s a good place, open and have a beautiful river
4.8. motijheel
18-01-2007, Demra, West Chonpara / Ward no-6
1.1. Bokul
1.2. F
1.3. Married
1.4. 50-60
1.5. No
1.6. Islam
1.7. Ash Seller. I have sold ash for last 27 years. Before this small business, I was em
ployed in Concern (NGO).
1.8. Main Dhaka (Motijheel, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur)
1.9. Demra
1.10 I don’t have to pay house rent. my grand-sons play around my home. they run and
play with mud. some times they go to the river bank because there have open space.
1.10a Bikrampur, Dhaka (long ago), I also lived in Kaptan bazaar. During the period of
Shekh Mujib – the policeman picked us with trucks and ordered us to settle here
(Demra).
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1.11 When I lived in Kaptan bazaar – that was a road side plastic hut I always felt afraid to
be kicked out. Here I feel better because I have no tension to be kicked out, don’t
have to pay house rent. Some NGOs provided sanitation and long ago govt.
provided us a plastic-made house. That’s still te one we are living in. Here I know a
lot of people. Ash collection is easy. From Munshigonj people come here to sell
ash, we buy from them. That is comparatively cheap (30 tk per bag). Then we sell
in different residential area all over Dhaka city.
1.12. 1.500tk
1.13. near Dhaka; Bikrampur
1.14. 34 years
2.1. I buy vegetable or other necessary things from Chonpara bazaar because here things
are cheaper. I also buy old garment from here.
2.2. Daily I go to different places of Dhaka, it is mostly door to door. Sometimes I go to
Donia, Kajala, Ginjira, or sometimes to Mohammadpur, Lalmatia or other places –
mostly residential area.
2.3. Local bus
2.4. now I wake up early morning because I want to catch up less traffic way. From morn
ing to evening I go form door to door to sell ash. I never take rice from restaurant be
cause it is costly. usually I take some road side snacks (singara, puri etc). I come back
home at evening and for some time like one and half hour I engaged for net making.
After mid night I wake up for cooking my food.
2.5. I have no such type of holiday.
2.6. here a lot of old women are engaged in ash selling. we start our journey together then
we divide to go for different direction for covering whole Dhaka. When we meet – we talk
about daily income, about family, husbands, sons – daughters, so many issues!!
2.7. I am a member of ASA. I am saving some money for my extreme old stage.
2.9. male are more, only poor women walk on the street, whereas rich women use transport
like rickshaw, CNG or bus - hawkers and garment workers walk on the street.
3.2.I came to Dhaka due to extreme poverty in my village but govt picked us here . but
now govt never come here to take care us or facilitate us
3.3. the people of Dhaka is good . mostly women are my daily customer so some women
know me very well and sometime also give me good food and also old cloths.
3.4. I never found such a distinction. all the people are same .
4.1. I have no time to pray formally but always Allah is in my mind.
4.2. During Eid I stay here. This year I collected meat from door to door but due to money
crisis I was unable to buy other things.
4.3. Never, I have no idea about such kind of things
4.4. my leisure time is very limited, after whole day walking I feel tired so my mainly oc-
cupation at home is sleeping. The wife of my elder son sometimes helps me to wash my
clothes. I usually make nets (like those used for play badminton).
4.5. Kazla - it is a combination of city and village, have trees and also have buildings
4.6. I mostly hear the news from different people on the street. I heard about Hartal, viol-
ence and politics also.
4.7. no
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04-01-2007, Mirpur 10
1.1. Laki
1.2. f
1.3. married – 2 children
1.4. 25
1.5. secondary
1.6. islam
1.7. Housewife
1.9. Mirpur 2
1.10 rented house -1200
1.10a I have lived in Mirpur 10
1.11 Yes, Mirpur 2 is less expensive
1.12. My husband has another wife, so he gives me 2000 tk / month
1.14 From my birth
2.1 sometimes my husband brings something at home, some others I buy from hawkers
2.2. Daily – my brother's house, I haven’t enough work in my house so I spend a lot of my
time at his house in Mirpur 10 or others places nearby
2.3. on foot
2.4. First I have to cook for the day, then I go for shopping to the bazaar, then I go to Mir
pur 10 to help my brother's wife and in the afternoon I take care of my children.
2.5. sometime I go here and there to search my husband
3.1. I love Dhaka, not village, in village there is no food, poverty
4.2. Dhaka, this Eid was so bad, I searched my husband but he was out of Dhaka, I had not
a single penny. My son and daughter went to live with my parents, I was afraid to
lose them in Dhaka searching for him...
4.4. I like to go botanical garden – I do not have to be accompanied by a man, I also can go
alone
06-01-2007, Tongi / Gajipur
1.1. Johora Begom
1.2. f
1.3. married, 6 children
1.4. 40-50
1.5. no
1.6. Islam
1.7. housewife
1.9. tongi
1.10 Govt land, own house, free/no rent
1.10a no
1.11. I have no land, I am poor, so I have no choice
1.12. I have no income, my husband and son give me some amount
1.13. No
1.14. Birth place
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2.1. my son and my husband
2.2. No. I never go outside, not outside tongi
2.3. On foot
2.4. whole day work for my family – cooking, washing, etc. And when I have finished any
work, I seat down near this road-side and talk with others
2.5. I have no holiday
2.9. my own house is most safe and my place. Female are more
3.3. some people are polite may be inhabitant or migrant - I like those, I don’t know the
difference
4.1. if I get time, here at home
4.2. Eid is a celebration for children and young people, I just cook food
4.4. with grand children
4.5. During childhood I visited some place but I forgot that, for a long time don’t go out
side, so I don’t have idea - I hear from other, they told me Dhaka is nice; once I went to
chawk bazar with my son, that’s a good place
5 th
December, 2006, Nawabpur / Old Dhaka
1.1. Nesar Ahammed
1.4. 12
1.2. m
1.6. Islam
1.5. class 6 – don’t go to school anymore
1.7. I am a helper of a electric wear shop
1.8. I work in Nawabpur
1.9. BCC road, Joi Kali Mondir
1.10. I live with my parents and we have to pay 2000 tk /month
1.11. It's my family who decided to shift to joykali mondir, I guess its for my fathers work.
Joykali Mondir is a very congested area, but house rent is lower, and it is not too far
from my father's working place. I go outside for playing, I like open space to move.
1.13. Once – until 5 years back, my family lived at Taherpur, also in Old Town.
1.14. 8 years we are living in Dhaka
2.1. Thatari bazaar / Old Town or gulistan
2.3. On foot, because that is not so far from my living place
2.4. I go to local mosque for learning the Holy Quran, then I take my breakfast and go to
the shop where I work. my shop closes at 9 pm. Then I come back home and watch TV for
some time
2.5. I spend Friday with my father and sometime go to Gulistan to play cricket. I spend
time with my friends
2.6 most of my friends are workers, few are students. they some time come to my shop for
talking or calling to go somewhere but I can't because of my work. I like good people to
make friendship
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3.1. Noakahali, I was born there. That is very good place. there have river and greenery.
like that village. There I have a lot of friends.
4.1. I go to mosque regularly for 5 times prayer. sometimes I went to Golap Shah Mazar at
Gulistan.
4.2. during eid I spend time with my friends – go to mazar for prayer, walk on the street
with my friends and walk around old town
4.3. during 16th December we hang a big flag on the top floor of the market .
11-12-06 , Soshimohol /Basak lane / Sutrapur
1.1. Rita Rani Bonik
1.2. Female
1.3. married – 3
1.4. 40-50
1.5. primary
1.6. hindu
1.7. housewife
1.9. Soshimohol/ sutrapur
1.10. own house / permanent
1.10a no
1.11 Yes, because there is no alternative, after my marriage I came here, this place is so
congested. I am living here for a long time, nowadays it seems to me it’s so uncom
fortable. Village is good, I lived beside Sundarbans, there are paddy fields where I
used to walk along the river bank wit my friends, on bare feet, we had a pond and a
garden in the village.
1.12 I have no income but my husband earns 3000Tk a month
1.13 Morolgonj / Bagherhat
1.14 25 years
2.2. I never go outside around my neighborhood in a whole year. I walk in front of house
or go to the nearby shop.
2.3. on foot
2.4. In the morning and all along the day I have to manage all the household work; then I'm
busy with cooking, for which I buy vegetables from hawkers who often come hereby
2.5. In the weekend I clean my home and wash cloths
2.6 the women next door are my regular partners of walking when I walk on the street, I
call her to go together. The road beside my house is very good, it’s the most important
meeting place of most of the women of our neighborhood.
2.9 women are less in number because they move less.
3.1. yes, my neighbours' family in Dhaka is Muslim but they are good. I have no relatives
in Dhaka from my parents’ side, here most of the relatives are from my husbands side, they
are good, but still now I miss my relatives who live in Khulna.
3.2. Due to my marriage, if there were at least some trees then it would be great.
4.1. Banogram Mondir, Loknath mondir, Shwamibag mondir - there are some nice mondir
in Dhaka city, but I can’t go there.
4.2. Dhaka, we usually take new clothes during Durga Puja
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4.3. A yes, that’s not for me, for young and male
4.8. BNP
Shahbag, At 11 pm , 25-01-2007
1.1. Sima
1.2. Female
1.3. I am married, well it was a love marriage. We were children in the same village, we
met during the preparation of a drama for children in which we took part and fell in love;
since then we have been together.
1.4. 20
1.5. primary, but my husband completed school, he got the secondary level certificate
1.6. islam
1.7. We survive collecting discarded materials from the streets and, after sorting, selling
them. before this we were engaged in black marketing - we bought goods from India
and sold them in BD. That was illegal so police and others harassed us. Now it is prohi
bited, during Ershad this is one of the important work in Jessore – Benapole area.
1.8. Here around Shahbag, beside the Campus
1.9. We sleep on the road divider of Shahbag, in the open air
1.11. this place is safer then any other road divider or footpath because it is open and noth-
ing is hidden here. there is no alternative, here many people live, we have little earning and
no ability to manage the rent for a house.
1.12. 3 thousands
1.13. before there I live in Gopalgonj. that is my place of birth
1.14. 10 years
2.1. We collect every meal from street vendors; and we get some cloths from people's
households.
2.2. Daily Gulistan –shahbug – shegunbagica to collect things from street, near houses or
in the dust bins
2.3. On foot
2.4. from 8-5pm I walk here and there for collecting goods or other work opportunities; we
can't cook but get something to eat at some NGOs', or from street kitchens.
2.5.. nothing is leisure in my life, when I feel tired then I take some rest on the footpath
2.9 Both male and female are equal
3.1. nothing is free here, there is everything but not for all.
3.2. village is full of problem, once I was in a drama team and just for this the villagers
blamed me harshly. I came to this city to search my lover, I found him, since then I
have stayed here. I used to collect dust papers. Police in Dhaka is sometime bad,
but they never misbehaved with me, and they never asked me money for staying
here.
4.2. We were here in Dhaka during eid, my father is sick and he has joined me. We tried,
but without success, to collect some pieces of meat.
4.4. once we go to cinema together, but it is costly now. Now every Friday we arrange a
music night. Some students and artist come with instrument, my husband sings and
plays with them.
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4.5. Shahid minar
4.7. 2 times for procession
18-01-2007, demra, Chonpara-1
1.1. Shova
1.2. female
1.4. 13
1.5. primary
1.6. islam
1.7. student
1.8. Nabo Kisholoy High School, in Demra
1.9. Chonpara 1
1.10. No. we don’t have to pay for housing
1.10a no, I was born here
1.11 I was born here, we are very poor, so we don’t have any option. It is the govt. who
sent us here, I know, but I like it very much because this is my area.
1.12 3-5 thousands is my families income
1.13 my parents once lived in Faridpur
1.14 my family from the birth of Bangladesh
2.1 my brother buys everything
2.2. Daily – School, monthly – Char, or nearby friends house
2.3. I always walk on foot
2.4 10-4 school, then I help my mother for cooking, then I make my homework and study,
then we all watch TV
2.5. I make some ornament by using puthi
2.6 all of my friends are students; I like a boy but others make bad comments and seniors
don’t allow me to have a boy friend at this age, so I have no way to communicate nor see
him.
2.9 in the evening boys are more and I feel afraid to go outside.
3.1. I have no idea, Dhaka is on the opposite side of the river, I go there 4-5 times in a year
4.2. For Eid we move here and there in our area; sometimes we go to Morapara (name of a
nearby place) or our school.
4.3. no, but in my school I go to shahed minar with flower
4.4. we play some games, or badminton
4.5. Motijheel, but actually I like sandbar and river banks, like here
4.6. from other people or TV
4.8. Caretaker govt
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18-01-2007, CHONPARA – WORD NO-7
1.1. md. Fazlul huq
1.2. male
1.3. Yes, but my wife died five years ago
1.4. 80 years
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. Selling pickles. When I was younger, I used to work as a van-puller, also as rickshaw
puller, then as day laborer...
1.8. Chonpara
1.9. Chonpara
1.10. No, I don’t have to pay for house because it’s a place of govt.
1.10a Mohammadpur – I lived there for 11 years
1.11. this place is good . I know a lot of people here. Here I can count and depend on some
people. this slum is cheap. don’t have to pay. these neighbors have helped me sev
eral times.
1.12. Less than 3000
1.13. shariatpur
1.14. 45 years
2.1. chonpara kacha bazaar
2.2. I walk through entire chonpara, every corner I visit to sell pickle. mostly child and
women are my customer.
2.3. On foot
2.4. my working time is 8 am to 3 pm / I always cook my own food in the evening. my eye
is not working well. I go for sleep at 9 pm. rest of the time I spend in this tea stall.
2.5. A when I feel physically sick – then I take rest , that’s my leisure
2.6. My friend is this young people who spend lazy time here, this tea stall keper, every-
body!
2.9 boys are more on the street. female are still engage in household work so they are less
on the street or market place
3.1. “lankai o vikhari ache , mokkai o gadha ache” lanka: place of wealth, place of rich
people, vikhiri is a Bengali term means poor. so place of rich is not full of rich because
there must be poor. mokka is a place of wisdom and knowledge – obviously religious
knowledge according to his sense, gadha is an animal in English it is monkey, symbol of
idiot. So in a nut shell: Dhaka is an agglomeration of poor though some have become rich
and city is enriching, and of idiots there, whereas there should be wise people (a city with
the mosque should be the place of wise people ...)
3.2. I was poor, I came to Dhaka with my mother, I started a job as a van puller during
youth, now that I'm near to the end of my life, carrying food to sell it on the street - nothing
changes. When I moved here, people told Dhaka is a place of enormous wealth; that can
change life – it's not true.
3.3. all the people are good. I never found difference between religion and community
4.1. I go to mosque sometimes
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4.2. I do work for others during Eid, like – cutting meat – they give me some meat and also
I earn 250 tk. my son lives far from me. sometimes they phone at the nearby shop
and I talk with them.
4.3. during festivals I go to nearby school for selling pickle.
4.4. Evening I spend here, this tea stall and the owner of this shop is good.
4.5. I never visited entire Dhaka but shaihd minar is our pride.
4.6. I hear radio news also BBC
4.7. No
4.8. Caretaker govt. now we have to wait for next power
26-12-2006, East Rampura
1.1. Shahabuddin
1.2. male
1.3. Married - 1 boy and 2 girl
1.4. 55
1.5. Secondary
1.6. islam
1.7. I work as decorator, I provide and install all which is related to decoration and catering
for marriage parties, akikas, etc.
1.8. Rampura
1.9. Rampura – actually, Shukrabad has been the place of my grandfather, but I came to
Rampura 30 years ago, my wife lives in the village.
1.10. I live in this decorator shop.
1.10a Sukrabad, Dhanmondi
1.11 My area is good, Rampura is the place which I like best, I know a lot of people here, I
am acting here like a caretaker and security guard for the night.
1.12 near about 5000.
1.13 Bikrampur , Munshigonj – there my wife lives
1.14 55 years, I was born here.
2.1 my kacha bazar is in Rampura. I do some shopping when I go my village, most of the
time I take food from a nearby mess (bachelors house)
2.2. my working place is all over Dhaka city, where my decoration product go, I go with
the product like – chair, table, colorful cloths, caterers, flowers.
2.3 sometimes I go there by van, sometimes on trucks, sometimes on microbus
2.4 always I stay here at my shop – when some client come I deal with them and if neces-
sary go with them.
2.5.A most of the time I stay at my shop.
2.6 customers are my friends
2.9. women are more in number on street due to garment, my mother lives in bikrampur
and my wife lives with her, though my earning is limited and I am not able to bring them
here.
3.1. I lived in a shop for last 30 years, my knowledge is confined to my shop and my work.
3.4. inhabitants thinks dhaka is their place but migrants thinks that’s not their place
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4.1. prayer / every day, but it is also good because I get information on the things going on
in the neighbourhood, as I am active as a security ward at night, it is important to be
in touch
4.2. Bikrampur / my wife and sons live there, so it's important to be there with them during
eid. I bought cloths from mouchak for my family in the last Eid
4.4. when I get vacation I go to bikrampur
4.5. rampura is the best place, once I lived in a slum but I have a shed for my shelter.
20-12-2006 Mohakali / water tank (locally called panir tank)
1.1. Jasim
1.2. male
1.3. unamrried
1.4. 15 years
1.5. no
1.6. Islam
1.7. Banana seller on the street, my father has the same job.
1.8. Panir Tank, Mohakahali
1.9. Karail
1.10 I live in a rented house with my parents and 450 tk is our monthly expenditures, as
there is no rent
1.11. Yes, Karail is a good place, I like it, there I have many people I know, and we have
water for everyday use; but area is so congested.
1.12. 70- 80Tk daily - it varies over time like winter, when it decreases.
1.13.. yes before coming here we lived in Comilla, paddabas village
1.14 we migrated from a village for work along with other villagers and are now living
here for 4 years.
2.1. I buy bananas from Tejgaon / kaworan bazar. Sometimes I go for market along with
my father or mother for shopping (vegetables and dresses)
2.2. Daily. It's my usual routine to go near Panir Tank for selling banana. Sometimes I go to
Kawran bazaar with my father for buying bananas, but you need to wake up very early.
However, I will do that more often in the next years as I'm growing older.
2.3. Always I walk for my destination and carry banana on head.
2.4. morning till evening I have to sell bananas, I make a break during lunch period, during
evening time I play football in the nearby field and sometimes play cricket or other
games
2.5. Neither Friday or hortal or other holidays mean holiday to me, but on Fridays I can
play longer football.
2.6 yes, most of my friends, 2-3 in number, are students they live in karail
3.1. yes, I like Dhaka because my parents and uncles are here, we have a better income
than in the village.
3.2. With my parents, I have a lot of friends in village, I missed them, when I first came to
Dhaka I didn't know anything about this place, nevertheless, now I know a lot of people
3.3. Most of the people of Dhaka are rich.
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4.1. mosque / Every Friday, alone or with fathers
4.2. I have never seen the Eid in Dhaka city, we always got to our village for enjoying fes
tivity. Riding on boat, walk randomly, work in my uncle's restaurant because he
provides good food, taking food from relatives house. Play HADUDU (National
Play of Bangladesh) and football.
4.3. No, never
4.4. Go to the field near karail – I have hardly 3-4 friends all of them live in Karail , we
play football together, most of friends go to school, I would also like to go to
school, but I can't because of my business. karail field is the only place of play or
walk even see the play, Cricket is good and I usually go to field after my work.
4.5. I know only the banana market and field nothing more; I saw a little of Dhaka but I
like green – village.
4.6. I hear form other people's discussion on the street /who are shopkeepers – Awami
League means Boat and BNP means Rice grain
4.7. No
4.8. no, I don’t know
06-1-2007, Uttra Road 5 Sector 12
1.1 Rahima
1.2. f
1.3 yes, and I have 3 children
1.4 35
1.5 no
1.6 Islam
1.7 Working as a cleaner in City corporation
1.8 Main road of Uttara
1.9 Uttara 12 Slum
1.10 It's just temporary – we don’t have to pay for my house because it’s a private property
and the owner still has not showed up here. Sometimes they come and talk with us,
we know they want to develop the plot. When they will start to make house, then
we will have to move.
1.10a our previous place was uttara 13
1.11 yes, we live a lot of people together, so we have fun and company, my husband is a
rickshaw puller, so according to our earning it’s a good place, and of course, we
don’t have to pay for house.
1.12 1.700 tk and including husband its near about 5000
1.13 Borishal during childhood
1.14 10-15 years ago I came here with my uncle and he managed my marriage
2.1. at the cross, in Uttara, there is a place for hawkers - I buy food and cloths from them.
Sometimes hawkers come to my home. I go alone or with my husbands or children.
2.2. daily - I work on the street, from the UTTARA house building to Abdullahpur
2.3. on foot or rickshaw – if I take rickshaw then it costs 10 tk
2.4. my working time is 5-2 during day time / then cook food /take care of my children/tv
2.5. children need some time during Friday, prepare some good food and wash entire house
during holiday.
2.6 I have a few friends in the slum
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2.9. I don’t know any place only for women, male is more in number, it's our religious rule
- don’t go outside, if you need to, go with proper protection
3.1. Dhaka is not always good, when we think about money we feel bad because always
we are in money shortage, if I had less work and get some more money, then I would feel
better. my mother died and my father lives in village, sometimes I wish to go to meet my
father but I can't.
3.2. my uncle brought me to live here. That time I lived like a slave, now I am free.
3.4 I think there is no difference, he (inhabitants) works for food me too.
4.1 I have not enough time to pray
4.2. Mostly, we spend Eid here, children would like me to buy them good clothes but I
can't manage money for that and I feel unhappy.
4.5. my Dhaka is confined to UTTARA, I have no idea about outside uttara
4.6. tv, local people
4.7. no
4.8. I don’t care of politics, everyone is equal to me
06-01-2007, Tongi / Gazipur
1.1. Tofazzal Hossain
1.2. male
1.3. Married – 1 son
1.4. 25
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. Fish seller (Tongi bazar)
1.8. Tongi bazaar
1.9. Tongi Sonabandh nazar
1.10. I live in a small house on govt. land, I don’t have to pay for that
1.10a no
1.12. If I have capital and I invest it then my income is 5000, if I have no capital then I bor-
row from others and my income will be 4000.
1.13 chittagong – 2 years
1.14 25 years, this is my place of birth
2.1 Tongi bazaar
2.2. Daily – tongi bridge, Abdullahpur for my work
2.3 on foot
2.4 go to the market / then fish selling till 1 pm / return home / back to the market at 4 pm
return 10 pm
2.5 no holiday
2.6 yes, all are small businessmen, I have friends outside Tongi too, but I see them less fre-
quently
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2.9 male are more in market but female are on the street, male stay outside for long time
but female stay for a short while. Asulia is good and well secured place. Women can go
alone but that’s not only for women.
3.1 yes, Dhaka is good, I wouldn't like to go to village. Here everything is closer, in village
you have to walk more for everything. Here some have to pay a rent for a house, but I
haven't any land in the village anyway...Dhaka is better than chittagong, Chittagong has its
beauty but for people like us there is no chance to earn money
3.4. migrants have to give hard effort for job but they do well in that sector.
4.1. mosque, depends on my mind and time
4.2. I am not professional meat cutter, so during eid I cut meat for other people and earn
money
4.3. I never go outside in other days but in 1st of Boishakh
4.4. Asulia, zoo, Sishu park; cinema hall - I like most of the films, but Bangla movies are
so nasty, I can't go there with my wife.
4.5. I have visited some villages – Fulpur, near Mymensingh, and some other in the same
area, and, well, there is nothing like that in Dhaka city
4.6. tv, procession
4.7. I must have to go, if I wish to live here, leaders command us to go there...
4.8. khaleda zia
10-01-2007, Motijheel
1.1. A hakim
1.2. male
1.3. married 3 children
1.4. 56
1.5.
1.6. islam
1.7. leader of a labor team / they transfer furniture and goods from one place to another
like one office to another
1.8. entire Dhaka or sometimes outside Dhaka
1.9. Dhalpur/ Jattrabari
1.10. Rented house -1400/month
1.10a Manda, Mugdapara for last 14 years
1.11 now I am living near my elder brother's house and I feel safe because he sometimes
take care of my family
1.12 5-10 thousand
1.13 madaripur, I was a farmer, I had no land I worked for others, I had only a house due to
river erosion I became homeless and I moved to Dhaka
1.14 20 years
2.1 Dhalpur, Gulistan and motijheel
2.2. daily, motijheel and monthly I go outside Dhaka, like faripur, khulna, different branch-
es of different Bank
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2.3. Bus, Truck (when I go outside dhaka) and rickshaw
2.4. Bath-prayer- market then motijheel for work at 9 then I go back at night
2.5. I have no holiday, I have to contact with manager and labor and also with truck driver.
2.6. motijheel, labor, ticket man, everybody
2.7. labor union
2.9 equal in number, veil is good for women, their duty to work for husband.
3.1. dhaka is good if you are capable of work otherwise not
3.2. for work, my relatives helps me a lot and Dhaka is famous for buildings and money
3.4. inhabitants live on house rent but migrants are active and hard worker
4.1. sometimes go to the mosque
4.1.a I like all the religious people
4.2. Dhaka, buy some good food
4.4. I am mobile, always moving here and there for contact, some people depend on me, so
I am busy all around the day
4.5. motijheel – from this place we are connected with other countries
4.6.motijheel is a central place of political discussion
4.7. yes, Gulistan. Palton and other areas around, sometimes I gave them money also
4.9.caretaker govt. if awami league wins the election then I will be happy
10-01-2007, Motijheel
1.1. Wahidur Rahman
1.2. male
1.3. Yes, I have two sons
1.4. 42
1.5. Primary
1.6. Islam
1.7. I am making ring from the used iron collected from horse hoof. It's a very tough job to
collect null iron nowadays, because horses are rare in our country. So it is very precious,
and it works as a very good medicine for different disease (Belief is the cure and ring of
iron is medium/symbol, only the people who believe in spirituality buy from him, so his
customers are limited and for that reason the ring is so expensive: >200 tk a piece)
1.8. Motijheel
1.9. Naraiongonj
1.10. I live in a small house and rent is 800 tk. though Nariongonj is out of Dhaka, it is
very costly. but I live in very low rented house.
1.11. For my work, sometimes I have to create noise, so I need to live far from places
where many people are living. Another thing is that the market is not far from my
house, so my wife can easily go there. after a whole day of work I come home for
sleeping so this silent place is good for me.
1.12. 5,000 tk
1.13. I was born in Naraiongonj and last 19 years I am working this same job.
2.1. most of thing I bought from Langolband. Everything is costly in Dhaka. Dhaka is for
rich people, here have everything if you have money (even you can buy the eyes of a tiger
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2.2. Daily motijheel
2.3. Bus
2.4. from morning to evening I am in Motijheeel. even I take my breakfast here. evening
period I go to collect some iron or go to some horse owner to collect information, its ur-
gent to make a linkage wit them. At night I spend time with my sons and wife
2.5. only hartal and sick time is my holiday
2.7. once I have very good connection with some leftist underground people. I am far from
them now. But still they try to continue the relationship.
2.9 male are more on the street. I dislike that women work like male
3.1. Dhaka is the capital, people from different place come here for work. though, dhaka is
not beautiful to all . not livable to all . it is for rich .
3.3. the people of old Dhaka or at lest the people who are living here for long time have a
respect over my job but the new comer think me as a bogus doctor .
4.1. There is an important place called Langol Bandh – it is a famous religious place for
hindu community. people gather here for bathing on a particular time (like Ganga
in INDIA)
4.2. Eid – Dhaka, I haven’t bought things this year
4.4. in my area there is a doctor - I talk with him about different disease . that’s my leisure
time work
4.8. rich men control all the things.
11-01-2007, VASANTEK
1.1. Parul
1.2. female
1.3. married, my husband is a shopkeeper, he also works here in Bhashantek – 5
1.4. 30-40
1.5. primary
1.6. islam
1.7. selling cake on the street
1.8 my home is my cake shop (cake made by mashed rice or flour )
1.9. Bhasantek slum
1.10. no, I don’t have to pay, like others – as this is government land
1.10a no
1.11 Shekh Mujib pulled us from the roadside and gave us shelter, it's far better than the
previous
1.12 3.000, including my husband's 7000
1.14 my birth place is Dhaka
2.1 Vasantek
2.2. daily – I visit a society for women in this slum
2.3. on foot
2.4. from morning 5 I start to make cake and finish at 9 / then cook for my family or do
other works / then I again start making cake till 9 pm
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2.5 everyday I make cake for slum dweller .
2.6 all are political friend
2.7 I am a member of slum development committee. Joint secretaty JUBO MOHILA
LIGUE
2.9 male are more in number, female are afraid of being outside.
3.1. How can I like this place? Here everything is costly. The govt. always assures us to do
something, but it is not doing anything. If Awami League comes to power, I think
then we will get something.
4.1. few, at home
4.2. I get some gift during eid, shari and other
4.3. children go, I never do
4.4. Cinema hall with husband or sponsor
4.6. party office
4.7. yes, paltan, pressclub, muktangon, with awami league
4.8. khaleda zia and her thief son tareq zia
06-01-2007, uttara house building
1.1. Jui
1.2. female
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 18
1.5. primary
1.6. islam
1.7. I am a garment worker
1.8. JAAN garment Uttara
1.9. Faidabad
1.10. Rented hut, for 1,100Tk. I and my younger sister live there together, both of us are
garment worker, but she is just helper so she gets less than me.
1.10a no
1.11. Yes, most of the Garment workers of JAAN live there so it’s better to live there for
daily arrival and departure and I find all my necessary things nearby. this road is known
to me so this is good for me and I think this is my place but if I go other street which is
unknown – that’s could be dangerous.
1.12. 2600 + 1200 (sister)
1.14. 6 months + my sister 1 month later
1.13. magura / Arpara is my home
2.2. Daily work Garment
2.3. On foot
2.4. Garment, Cooking and washing cloths or sometimes do overtime at night
2.5. Faidabad – Kachabazar, Tongi – cloths, cosmetics
2.9. males and females are equal in number
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3.1. yes, Dhaka has so many garment industries and for that so much work, at first people
fall in danger in Dhaka city but after a certain time they cope with the stress.
3.2. I came here for job, there are no big factories like here in Dhaka in Magura. In Dhaka
there are so many garment factories and there is a lot to work, also the payment is compar-
atively high
4.1. yes, I do prayer twice a day, there have a place in my Garment .
4.2. Eid – Magura with parents, I like jessore and magura, have many relatives
4.3. when I was a student I was usual in that occasion
4.4. Asulia, Fantacy kingdom with boyfriend
4.5. nothing like my village, but fantacy kingdom is good which can represent Bangladesh
– all over the world, it’s so big
4.6. I learn it from senior
4.7. no
2.6. I have only one best friend, I share everything with her, even about my boyfriend and
all the experience I have done with him.
11-12-2006, Chandromohon Bosak Lane - Bonogram
1.1 Shekh Abul
1.2 male
1.3 married, 3 children
1.4 50-60
1.5 no
1.6 Islam
1.7. Bicycle repairer / maker
1.8. Chandro gram, BONOGRAM
1.9 125, Banogram, temporary
1.10a 65, Tati bazaar, then I came here for a better work
1.11 This place is better than Tati Bazaar where I lived before because that place was more
costly than the present. All of my relatives live here, here work is more, as there are
more people, and communication is good. So, this is why this is a better place than
Tati bazar.
1.12. 3-5 000
1.14 dhaka is my place of birth
2.1 I never go to market, my sons do that
2.2. daily I come to my working place that means the cross section of this road side
2.3. usually I go on foot everywhere
2.4 Everyday I start my work at 9 then I do till 2. After meal I never do work, I just go to
Murgipotty and take wine – that’s all.
2.5 that’s my daily routine, I have no holiday
2.6 yes all of my friends are addict people, we share money and wine
2.9 women are more in street and market, I think so.
3.1. I live a free life here, I have no responsibility on my family, I take wine every after
noon, my wife know it but she has no opinion
3.4. Migrants are oppressed by inhabitants of Dhaka
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4.1. no except for EID
4.3. no, but I know one thing, during social festive the price of wine goes up.
4.4 take wine, I have friend circle all are addict people.
4.5. I never go out side Bonogram or Old Dhaka, so I don’t have enough idea about the rest
of the Dhaka city.
4.6. TV, where I take wine, that’s a great place for political discussion
4.7. yes, I go willingly sometimes for money - Gulistan , Russel Square
4.8. police, Army and RAB - sometimes they arrest us.
9.9.07, Gulshan 1, lake side
1.1.Mohammad Selim
1.2. male
1.3. married, 4 children, 3 sons and one daughter. I have one son who worked for Grameen,
but he happened to have an accident and Grameen did support us only partly for the
recovery costs and nothing more. Now he cannot work any more and I have to sup
port him, too. The other two boys are going to school, and also my daughter,
nevertheless at least one of my sons, the elder one, is working as rickshaw wallah
half-day.
1.4. Age 30-40
1.5. Education level: NO EDUCATION
1.6. Religion Islam
1.7. Profession: Rickshaw wallah. I used to work as cleaner in FAZLUL Haque Hall at
Dhaka University in 1969-71. Through my job, I had to make also the bazaar (shop
ping for food) and got to learn how to ride a van, thus I explored the neighbour
hoods and also made friends with many rickshaw wallahs). After Liberation war, I
could not get back my job and started this new job. ...I learnt in gradually, since the
time of my work at University I started to ride vans for the bazaar and got into it.
Since 1971 I explored the city and gradually got to understand all areas. It used to
be easier to ride rickshaws once upon a time, but the increasing restrictions are
making our job harder because always more streets are closed for us.
1.8. EVERYWHERE
1.9. Shahjadpur (other side of US embassy)
1.10. Rented home, 2,200 Tk
1.10.a. I migrated from Potuakhali District to Dhaka end of 60s. First I lived in Nakal Para
(near Prime Minister Office), then in Mohakali, and in the last 20 years in Shahjad
pur. Also the owner of the rickshaw lives there, so it makes sense to live there.
1.12. 3-5,000 (150-200 a day, some weeks he works 5, some 6 days)
1.13. Potuakhali
1.14. Since when do you/ your family live in Dhaka? 1968
2.1. katcha bazaar in Shahjadpur, Gulshan 1 bazaar (family market is also done by my
wife)
2.3. BY FOOT/Rickshaw
2.4. I work half-day as rickshaw wallah. Before going to work, I go to the bazaar, then I
make some work at home (“ghorer kaj”), then I have lunch and go to work by 2 pm.
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I work until 11 or 12 pm. After work, I go home, take a shower, food and go to
sleep. No time for ADDA.
2.5. When I don't work I just stay at home to recover from work. I can meet my friends.
Once in a month, when I am free, I go to visit my relatives in Mirpur and Mohakali
along with my family or alone.
2.6. My friends are also rickshaw wallahs from my area. We meet in Shahjadpur when we
are having rest.
3.1. Dhaka is the root (he says “dhaka desher gorah ache” -> gorah= root, here used as
centre, centre of Bangladesh, people come here for work purposes. There are of
course other district towns but there are more chances in Dhaka. But Gulshan and
Parliament areas are the best in Dhaka because they are less chaotic and loud.
3.4. No, all are equal.
4.1. I don't pray.
4.2. It needs a lot of money to go to Potuakhali, so I generally stay in Dhaka and celebrate
with my family. Once in 3 years we may go to visit my birth village.
4.3. I work
4.4. I stay at home, talking with some neighbours. Sometimes I take a more-day-long rest.
4.5. NO ANSWER But Gulshan and Parliament areas are the best in Dhaka because they
are less chaotic and loud.
Shakhari Patti, December
1.1. Sukumar Das
1.2. male
1.3. Married 3 children, 2 sons and 1 daughter, grown up (one is educated – 10 class, one is
cobbler and daughter is going to school)
1.4. 40-50
1.5. Education level: ANYTHING
1.6. Religion hindu
1.7. Cobbler + free time cultivator
1.8. Gulshan 1 (Gulshan Badda Road). I have worked here as a cobbler for 35 years, at the
time also Gulshan was a village!
1.9. Baraet, Gulshan Tana.
1.10. It's my own house, I just have to pay electricity bills (500Tk)
1.11. There are a lots of other Hindus, I was born there, it was a village at that time
1.12. 5.000
1.14.Since my birth in Baraet, but in my childhood it used to be a village outside of Dhaka.
Actually, it used to be outside of Dhaka 5 years back!!!
2.1. Bazaar in the neighbourhood, often my son
2.2. Everyday to Gulshan for work, otherwise nowhere
2.3 By bus, it takes half an hour from Baraet to Gulshan.
2.4. Waking up at 6, then I get my breakfast, then I give grass to the cow and do cow dairy,
sometimes I do the bazaar, but mostly my son does it. Sometimes i find the time to
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cultivate a little bit as I have a small plot of land that I can cultivate. Around 9 I
come to Gulshan and stay there around 5-6. I'm back home by 6-7. Then I wash
myself, I have dinner, I share some thoughts and information with my family
members and go to bed.
2.5. I always work actually! I only have 5-6 days free for the Durga Puja.
2.6. Have you got a group of friends you see regularly? Who are they (colleagues/ neigh
bours/ childhood friends...)? What is their profession? Where do they come from?
Relatives and neighbours and vendors on the street, in Gulshan. We know each oth
er for long. I like Gulshan for this reason, just because I know everybody here.
2.9. I see more women than men, they are the garment workers: since the introduction of
textile industries we see more women on the streets.
3.1. I love to live in Baraet, it is the place of my birth
4.1. Where (and in which neighbourhood) do you go to pray? Only Durga Puja time, but I
don't have much time for the daily worship.
4.1.a Durga Puja is the biggest celebration day for me and my family and thus I take some
days off. We worship in the mundir of Baraet, we have 3 temples over there and we
are a strong community. I have never thought of gong somewhere else to celebrate
the Puja, I don't think it's important to have seen Old Dhaka for that...
4.3. NO, cause I work
4.4. In the evening, only with my family, neighbours and relatives. But I don't go for any
ADDA outside, as I am tired enough after work.
New Market, 9.09
1.1. Mohammad Mugammad Haque
1.3. Gender male
1.3. Married, 3 children (one, the only son, died)
1.2. Age : a) 5-10 b) 10-20 c) 20-30 d) 30-40 e) 40-50 f) 50-60 g) 60+ (38)
1.5. Education level: a) primary
1.6. Religion Islam
1.7. book seller (employed)
1.8. New Market
1.9. I live in Hazaribagh, but my family stays in the village. I go visiting them 2x in a
month. I thought to stay with my family in Dhaka, but I could not afford. They
sometimes visit me in Dhaka (2x in a year).
1.10. Rented flat, we share it in 4 people. Total Rent is 2,000 + 1,500 per head for food.
1.10.a. I have always lived in Hazaribagh and worked in New Market.
1.11. Hazaribagh is ok, although it smells a little bit due to the leather processing. Every
district has his own character, I find everything equally important.
1.12. Income 3-5,000
1.13 In my home village in Jamalpur district.
1.14. 1988, I came through one of my relatives who also worked in a book shop. He helped
me finding a job in the same field.
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2.1 Hazaribagh katcha bazaar, also New market. Sometimes I have to go to Bangla Bazaar
to buy new books.
2.2. Bangla-Bazaar for books, sometimes to Mirpur to visit my owner's home.
2.3.By rickshaw, on foot and tempo from Hazaribagh to New market, bus to Mirpur.
2.4. I wake up at 7 am, then wash myself, have breakfast, sometimes I do the market, and I
come to New Market by 9-9.30 am. I work here until 8 pm. After work, I go home
and sometimes I pass through a katcha bazaar and to some marketing for dinner and
home. I cook food, have dinner and go to sleep.
2.5. Tuesday, New Market closure (not Wednesday!): I sometimes watch TV for the news –
it belongs to one of my “flatmates”, I take a rest, clean my room. There is not much
to do in Dhaka for a man alone. Twice a month, indeed, I go to the village to see my
children and wife.
3.2. I come from a cultivators' family, but since I was a little bit educated and it is hard to
make a life working the fields, I decided to go to Dhaka.
4.1. I hardly go to the mosque
4.2. For Eid, I get 5 or more days holiday so I can spend a lot of time with my family in the
village.
4.3. I stay at home but for 21 february – in that day, I go to Shahid Minar and enjoy the
programme. Otherwise I stay at home and rest. I'm not that much interested.
4.4. Evening and Tuesday, watch TV. I don't have many friends, I share the room with 3
people and make ADDA with them, but they are working on that day.
4.5. I don't know, but I like National Museum, National Memorial in Savar, and the zoo – I
have been there with my family...
19-01-2007, Demra, CHONPARA 1
1.1. Zahanara
1.2. female
1.3. married, 2 children
1.4. 40-50
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. NGO volunteer
1.8. BOAMSHA’s local branch in CHONPARA (an NGO, in rampura is head office ,
women migration related work)
1.9 Chonpara
1.10. Chonpara, I don’t have to pay, like others, because the government re-settled us here
1.10a Mirpur (2-3 years )
1.11 Mirpur 2, where I lived during 1972 – at that time there were buildings for living
whereas here I have a hut, since I'm living here in Demra I fell in a trouble and I
needed to go to court for reallocate my land. Now I have own land and I feel better.
1.12. 5,000
1.14. 35 years
1.13. Comilla for 7 years
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2.1 I sell cloths – I buy them from Baburhat, Gausia, Bongo bazaar. I do my kacha bazar
from Chonpara
2.2. Daily – Rupgonj, weekly – Rampura
2.3. By bus
2.4. most of my morning I spend at Rupgonj (8-12) then I take food / then I visit schools /
talk with people who are going to make a plan for abroad/ sell cloths / teaching
stretch.
2.5. every Friday I come to main office at rampura for reporting at my NGO. back after 5
2.6. women
2.9. Equal in number, in slum women are more rather than in town.
3.1. I like Dhaka, my NGO trained me, made me clear and aware about migration.
3.4. migrants are more conscious nowadays rather than previous
4.2. Eid is my busiest time. I sell some cloths during that time, I haven’t enough money to
enlarge my business, my son manages some meat and there are no relative in Dha
ka city so I stopped moving during Eid
4.3. A 18th December world migrant day, and 8th of march – women day, I join the proces
sion with my organization and manage other women for movement.
4.4. I make nets for sell; I am doctor sometimes I meet different people for treatment, I got
a herb in dream by which I am joining the broken bone.
4.5. airport and near Banani, that’s green
4.6. my uncle belongs to one party and brother belong to other so from them I get the infor
mation
4.7. Shahbug to Press Club
4.8. caretaker govt. I hope awami league will take over the power
14-12-2006, Asadgate / near Aarong
1.1 Fatema
1.2 female
1.3. I'm married and have 1 daughter
1.4. 30
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. ornament making and selling
1.8 Asad Gate, beside the road. There, I make ornament by different element and sell it.
1.9 Demra / Rupgonj
1.10 rented house and I have to pay 500Tk/ month
1.10a No, from my birth I am living there
1.11 yes, that’s a fringe and I have learnt making jewellery there from other women. Over
there, the living costs are comparatively low, and I know many people there - that’s
good
1.12. 2-7,000 per month but it varies during Eid or other festivals its go up wards but other
times it remain constant.
1.13 never
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1.14. before my birth
2.1. Demra bazaar for usual things and Gulistan for special things
2.2.yes from Asad gate to Demra, Demra to Asad Gate, that’s all. Oh! Sometimes, during
festivals, I go to Ramna Park, to trade fairs, Doel Chattar, for selling my goods.
2.3.by bus. Sometimes bus is full. I fall in trouble but now I push the male to manage my
place over there.
2.4. I wake up early morning and cook food then wait for the bus and ride on it within a
hour I reach over my business place that means asad gate. I sell the ornament and
when the load of customer is low, I make some ornament. sometimes pressure is so
high and I manage a helper for me. At night I reach home and cook something for
my husband and children, then go for sleep.
2.5 I have no weekend
2.6. yes. people of demra who are engaged in ornament making, it's good to talk with them
for idea and new fashion and design. I have a very good relation with different peo
ple otherwise how can I continue my business. For my business I have to make
good relation with a lot of people.
2.7. I am a member of ASA Somity
2.9. there is so much women specially on this street but less in other place .
3.1. yes. I like Dhaka both Asad Gate and Demra. I like Asad Gate for selling my goods. If
it costs 20Tk at Demra, it will be 50Tk at Asad Gate: more than twice. Here women
love ornaments rather than Demra women. My husband has same business at Chad
ni Chawk market and he encourages me to do that.
3.2. my family has lived in Demra for long, but I can tell you why I come to asad gate:
here I don't have to pay anything for selling goods, that’s the peace. Earlier, I used
to collect pearls from the river, then I got to know that some of my villagers are
making ornaments. First my sister learnt, then I and after learning I started to come
here with my sister. This is a good place. It's such an elite area. That’s a good place
really, there are a lot of schools and a lot of girls move on this way.
3.4. Every one have to survive - both migrant and inhabitant - so I don't find any differ
ence, I have to sell either migrant or inhabitant.
4.1. haha / sometime
4.2. In Dhaka. Eid is something special for us. that time is a huge working period and my
sells go upward. I don’t have enough time do something for myself, I only think
about business. Even in Eid day I sell a lot of ornaments. Earning more money is
the most interesting thing during eid. Sometimes I go to my sisters house due to my
children’s request.
4.3. A yes. I make a stall over there during social festival. sometimes my sister sells the
things in my place and I look the things happening there.
4.4. my sister's house, zoo, Naraiangonj with my husband, children or with my sisters
4.5. haha, I don’t know. Oh! There is a Akhra (* gathering place of some singer who sing
about super power and soul) in BAWLA BAZAR near Demra and INDIA have
also this sort of place. that’s important place I think. that’s nice also
4.6. I can't understand politics
4.7. never procession attracts me but sometimes procession increase my sells. Every Friday
a lot of people gather near Parliament and I go there to sell my product.
4.8. I don’t know
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07-12-06 Aziz super market
1.1 Arup Rahi
1.2 male
1.3 unmarried
1.4 30
1.5 Self educated (I stopped University because I did not agree with education pro
grammes)
1.5 self religion
1.6 Research/ Music
1.7. Shyamoli, I also live there
1.10. rented flat; 5000
1.10a Azimpur, if I have left that place it doesn't mean the place is bad, I left it for my
essence.
1.11 yes, the area I'm living in Shyamoly is calm and silent, which I like very much, and
the low rents are another reason for choosing the place.
1.12. 10,000
1.13 Pabna
1.14 15 years alone
2.1. Probortona I like for clothes, Aziz for books or others, sometimes I go to Rifle Square,
Adabar bazaar for daily necessary things.
2.2. daily I move here and there to meet my friends, study, see exhibitions and cultural pro
grams, a lot of places Alliance Francaise, Drik Gallery, Bengal Gallery, Aziz, etc.
2.3. Bus
2.4 to talk with people is my main work and my work is optional work. Whole day I make
adda, talk with people, work little bit that’s all. I have no servant for cooking or
washing my clothes, for that reason I do everything by myself.
2.5 I am not a service holder so have no holiday but I spend time in tea stall. Tea is an im
portant part of our culture.
2.7 political, LOKOJ (“which belongs to people”)
2.9. I have no statistics. In Aziz women have no problem to come, but nowadays number is
decreasing due to the non-polite eyes of men. I think the ratio of men to women in
Aziz is 15:1
3.1. It is not relevant whether I like it or not, for my choice is based on my necessity. The
city is useful for my purposes, it is the only place where political activism can take
place. It is not the infrastructure to attract me, I actually like spaces with trees, the
River Buriganga, and the organic sensations one can grasp in Dhaka. I like the joy
of the city.
3.2. for work - Pabna is good there is a spiritual influence on the people's culture due to
Lalon
3.4. There are some differences which are only related to profession.
4.1. I never go for traditional prayer, I have different praying methods
4.1.a. A some times I find my god through my song or songs of Lalon, or some other
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4.2.Usually I stay in Dhaka, I have no different wish.
4.3. if I have own program then I do something otherwise not.
4.4. I am a freelancer so my free time is up to me – I make adda with my friends (most of
them are activists). it depends, sometimes I go to German Cultural center for watch
ing movie
4.5. If I talk in my way – the present Bangladesh is represented by the beautiful advertise
ment of Unilever Bangladesh near Hotel Sonargaon. But actually the bank of Buri
ganga.
4.6. media, news papers, aziz, radio furti.
4.7. I take part in processions because I am an activist and I believe in a different ideology
than the present ruling and opposition party. Basically the way of procession is Sha
habag to Palton, historically this route is important. In front of national museum
you can find a different taste and smell which is related to this countries history.
Dhaka University is historically the heart of activism and politics. From the very
beginning of Bangladesh , some streets are related to political history – Shahbag to
Palton is one of them, the streets of Dhaka university also.
4.8. People of Bangladesh are not so interested about parliament and they never thought
that’s the centre of power.
New Market, 9.09.2007
1.1. Mohammad Arif
1.2. Gender Male
1.3. Married/Unmarried – Children (age)? Unmarried
1.4. 30
1.4. Religion Islam
1.5. Education level: b) secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. shop-keeper (employed), I used to have a small clothes-shop, but I didn't manage to
run it and thus I am employed here
1.8. In which neighbourhood do you work / study? New Market
1.9. Suttrapur, permanently
1.10. It is my family's house, a old house we have inherited from our ancestors. I live with
my brother and his wife, our parents died.
1.11. I was born here in Gandaria Suttrapur, I grew up here, I have accustomed to these
things and so I like to be here. There are still some underdeveloped areas, lacking
water and so, but I belong there.
1.12. 3-5,000
1.13. No
1.14. Always
2.1. My sister in law and brother do the katcha bazar, for clothes, I don't have a particular
place, sometimes Banani, New Market, sometimes Banga Bazaar – or I give a order
to a tailor. New market, Sutrapur, Gulistan
2.2. No but Suttrapur, Buriganga and New Market. Sometimes Banani for shopping.
2.3. By bus, just go by myself.
2.4. I wake up at 7, I train a little bit, then I get a shower and have breakfast, and read the
newspapers until it's time to go to New Market. I work 10am-20pm except Wednes
day. I always read 5 of them, if I should miss I have to have read at least Protom
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Alo and Daily Ittefaq, during work or after it. After work, I just relax at home, I
don't go out but talking a bit with the neighbours or my brother.
2.5.On Wednesday, I can find a little bit of time for my friends, but as it is working day for
them, it is also difficult to get together. Otherwise, I clean my room and visit relat
ives nad brothers and sisters spread out in Dhaka
2.6. They are my childhood friends. We meet together when we have time, we are all
grown up now... they work in garment companies or have shops, small business. I
have a girlfriend, she's a student in the graduation level (higher than him!). We see
each other at our homes, which is not a problem at all for our family. I at least
haven't got any problems so far from her parents, I don't know what my brother
thinks about it, but he didn't interfere. We see each other once in a week, in the
week-end, but we date each other (to go out) hardly once in a month. Then, we go
to some melas or hang around in the city, on the rickshaw. We talk each other over
phone, we don't need to see each other more often, I don't have much time and I
also don't feel we should see each other more often. Well, it is our society, it does
not suport that unmarried people see each other more often. Definitely, we are go
ing to marry, so I don't have to rush. That's our culture.
2.9. There are more men, definitely – ok, in New Market there are more women, of course
because they have to make shopping. It is our tradition, women are expected to stay
at home, not to work or go out. Even when they have got a degree from university,
once they marry they don't want to work or go out. They enjoy during the uni
versity years, that's enough in our culture.
3.1. I would rather say that I like to live in Suttrapur. New Dhaka is interesting for the new
buildings and companies, it is more developed than Puran Dhaka, but people have
good neighbourhood tides there, whereas in New Dhaka people are more individu
alistic and have only relationship to their relatives. We in Old Dhaka have a better
feeling for community.
3.4. Settlers come to Dhaka only for a different life, but the environment here is so differ
ent that they don't know how to cope with the urban life, they don't know “cour
tesy” (he says it like that, in English), some of them can learn after a while, many
don't at all.
4.1. I hardly go to pray.
4.1.a. Are there other religious spaces, in Dhaka, where people can worship? I can think
about shrines but don't visit them...
4.2. We Muslims have two big festivals, Eid. In the morning, I do NAMAS, then I meet my
friends from my neighbourhood – it is actually the only time we can meet some of
our friends all together, as we all work and don't find the time otherwise!! WE
make ADDA and get updated about what happened during last year. Then I have
lunch and go to visit some of my relatives. Some are in Old Dhaka, some in New
Dhaka, and my sister is living in Narayanganj.
4.3. I go to Shahid Minar in the night or morning of 21 February, 16 december – there is a
march in the cantonment and I join there to see it, there are many fairs to see.
4.4. When is your free-time? Where and with whom do you spend it? Sometimes I leave
for a trip outdside Dhaka, like Chittagong... in Dhaka? Oh, yes, do you know the
Buriganga? I would go to Narayanganj until the Shita Lakha (river) by boat, on the
Buriganga, along with friends. I love to go to Buriganga...
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4.5. Lal-Bagh Fort, Ashan Manjil, National Museum. You won't get anything like this in
New Dhaka. I think that these things actually reflect Dhaka, not Bangladesh. It is
too wide and varied to be represented by one thing.
4.6. But the newspapers, I don't like to talk about politics because it is wrong in our coun
try, it is leader-based instead of issue-based...
4.7. NO, I don't believe in it.
4.8. Gulistan and Muttang Gon (->”free place/field)
Modur Canteen
1.1 Aziz Hasa
1.2 male
1.3 unmarried
1.4. 24 years
1.5 B.A in Bengali literature (Continuing), University of Dhaka.
1.6 Islam
1.7 Student
1.8. Dhaka university Art Building
1.9 Students' dormitory, Fazlur Rahman Hall (locally called F. Rahman Hall).
1.10 I don’t have to pay any rent on a monthly basis for the accommodation, I pay 250Tk
for the residence during the registration for the courses (20 tk per month or some
thing more).
1.10.a. Yes, In Goran, with my elder brother. When I first came to Dhaka for study pur
pose, it took some time before I got a place in the hall, for that my elder brother
gave me shelter. But Goran is far from his campus, that’s why I searched for seat in
the hostel.
1.11 Yes. I think I'm living in Dhaka's best place because of the people living in DU Cam
pus – most of them are fantastic. Dhaka university campus is the best place to live
in Dhaka City. It has cultural, educational, and intellectual significance.
1.12 I give private tuitions, so my income depends on tuitions availability but most of the
case its about 4,000. My parents cannot support me much.
1.14 For last five years
1.13 Narail in Khulna division is my place of birth, I spent there the rest of my lifetime be
fore Dhaka.
2.1 I take my food from Nilkhet and Chankharful, I am not usual to take food from univer
sity hall canteen, Aziz is the place where I buy T-shirts and I go to New Market for
other clothes. Sometimes I go for other markets to buy some essential things.
2.2. Daily, party office, for meeting with leaders or some other places where have tasks
I'm engaged in a political party (Bangladesh Student Union, Student wing of a left
ist party).
2.3. Walking / Rickshaw in campus or for nearer places or by Bus for far.
2.4. Modhur canteen is my second home! ...before and after class most of my time I spend
here. I attend classes according to routine and do my routine political task.
2.5.Friday and other holiday I spend my time by doing political activity and library work
for preparing for exam.
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2.6. yes, most of my friends are student and have good relationship with some teachers,
journalist. Sometimes I pass time with ex students who are unemployed and have
time, I have also good relationship with some political and cultural activist. As I'm
engaged in direct political activity, most of my friends are partisans
2.7. yes political and the cultural wing of my party, they take several program on national
agenda and I take part.
2.9. women are less in number because male are still ruling part in society, women are less
educated but situation is improving still it is not significant and women feel fear to
go outside.
3.1. Dhaka is a better place for working and study. There is a big dissimilarity between
Dhaka's inhabitants and the rest of Bangladeshis.
3.2. Higher study is only reason for living in Dhaka but it now belongs to carrier develop
ment. Advantages of Dhaka is its centralize nature, here people can earn more mon
ey by working less than in other cities, Dhaka is centre of job, money and better ed
ucation, obviously traffic is a great problem here.
3.4. the settlers are mostly involved in day to day political or social or cultural activity
comparatively more than Dhaka city people (by born). It is true for intellectual dis
cussion also. Dhakaiya are mostly interested about their business and their own in
terest, not about the rest of Bangladesh - what is going to happen is of no matter to
them.
4.1. mosque / sometimes in me
4.2. All of the big festive I pass with my parents in my home town Narail. It's always
charming to meet with local people and friends during vacation. it's usual to take
good food during Eid or other religious festivals. Political discussions are my fa
vorite work. I make adda with my friends and family members during festive.
4.3. Yes, I attend with party members, National Monument Savar, Shahid minar, Intellectu
als Graveyard. I feel proud to join that programme because most of our achieve
ment is related to those days.
4.4. when there is no class or political programme – then I stay with friends and party sup
porter or worker. Modhur canteen, TSC, Selim Chattar, Hakim Chattar, Paltan party
office. place is not so important for me - important is people, where I get the peo
ple I like – I'll meet there, I'll talk there. Keranigonj is the place I like to go some
times for enjoy because that’s a nice area.
4.5. no there is not a single place which represent Bangladesh because Dhaka is not like the
rest.
4.6. Media, Party office and Modhur canteen, I read newspaper from library.
4.7. yes, always take part in procession of social and political usually in campus and out
side it. Outside the campus, the political zones are in Zero point, muktangon, palton
or other places.
4.8. power is captured by some people (bourgeois), they are the owner of most of the
wealth. It is also in US embassy. I have a negative relationship with that institution
and people.
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14-12-2006, Mohammadpur town hall
1.1 Mr. Minhazul
1.2 male
1.3 unmarried
1.4 20
1.5 I am a student of Bangladesh Open University, HSC level
1.6 Islam
1.7. I have a repairing shop of key and locks
1.8 mohammadpur town hall
1.9 Kafrul, along with my sister
1.10 rented semi-pucca / 1500Tk
1.10a We used to live in Mohammadpur with our parents but now they have moved to our
village and I and my sister have settled here
1.11 Yes, I like Kafrul because there is a big mosque near my house and a place near
mosque is always good. My sister changed her office and we had to changed our
residence. In Mohammadpur, an accident happened and sometimes I felt bad and
pain. But I have friends here.
1.12 my monthly income is 5,000
1.13 Daudkandi / Comilla .
1.14 last 8 years.
2.1. near cantonment there is a market I usually go there early morning most of my dress
are bought from my relatives shop in new market
2.2. Usually I go to Hazaribagh to meet my friends, there I have another sister, outside my
workplace that’s my usual occupation.
2.3. I have bicycle, I use it because it is a good process for saving money but difficult to
move due to high traffic.
2.4. my profession is a busy profession, I don’t know when I have to move where, I wait
for call, where some family office fall in trouble due to lock and key. I stay here for
a long time, sometime people come here and some times I go outside. I go for shop
ping but not frequently. I go back home near midnight.
2.5. I have a mobile phone I connect myself with my sister with that. Usually I go to Za
kir hossain road for playing badminton during night time. it’s a seasonal play. There
have a limitation to play there at least he have to a known one of some of us.
2.6. yes, they are mostly shopkeeper and some addabaz people who just spend time near
my shop.
2.7. I am a member of Agrani Club, we arrange some play, and some fund for future inter
est.
2.9. girls are less, I also am against women’s work, when my earning will increase, then I
will stopped my sister to go to work.
3.1. one thing is important you have to understand that the place of birth is important for
every people and if I have less money and even hungry that place seems to me im
portant and good. My mother lives there that’s another reason to like that place. that
place is quite interesting because of river and climate and environment something
different like 6 month is dry and 6 month is wet that means land remain under wa
ter. I like to catch fish and do swim.
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3.2. there is not enough work in village, I have sisters and have to manage some money for
my family for that reason I came here, here I have relative so I have strength.
3.4. we the migrants are trying to establish but the inhabitants sometimes dislike us they
think of us as a burden.
4.1. once , when I was child I go there now I don’t
4.2. in my village with all of my family members. Most of cousins meet during religious
festivities. I like to make some fun with my cousins (girls)
4.3. A yes, Ramna, Shahid minar -----walking or rickshaw
4.4. I steal some of my working time for recreation; I have girlfriend and I meet her in
botanical garden, at the grave yard near mirpur, ramna, a lot of places. But most in
teresting place is my college, I have only one class in Friday and my girlfriend
meets me there. she also is a student of open university
4.5. hazaribug, I like and in general the place where my girl friend calls me seems to me
important and nice.
4.6. TV, news paper
4.7. never political procession, some times procession give some t-shirt I go there
4.8. this is the office of prime minister, when I pass that office, it seems to me a house of
power
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1.1.Anower hossain
1.2. male
1.3. single
1.4. 30
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7. craftsman (once I designed clothes and sari), but now I work as a middle man, or
sometimes sellman.
1.8. My working area is huge, wherever in BD cotton fair, trade fair or related things hap
pen I go there for work.
1.9. Geneva Camp
1.10a I lived in Mirpur for last 30 years and living in this camp for last 5 years, but my rel
atives have lived here for long.
1.11 Mirpur is far from Dhaka while Mohammadpur is closer - I like Mohammadpur be
cause every is walking distance from here.
1.12 more than 5000
1.14 35 years
2.1. Bangobazar, Gulistan , Ramna, Farmgate, Gausia, most of time I like to buy dresses
for women from Gausia.
2.2. daily - Shahbagh because I sell some goods near Shihu park.
2.3 bus
2.4. usually morning time is spend in Geneva camp committee office and from 2-8 is my
working hour
2.5. during Friday I spend more time for pray and there is a rush in Shahbug so it’s a busy
day for my business.
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2.6. my friends are same aged / we meet in office and my working place also.
2.9. 2.9. Markets like Gaucia and new market – women are more in number but gulistan or
market in old Dhaka male are more n number , urdu speaking women are engaged
in working but at home they are less frequent to street , students and garment work
ers are more in street.
3.1. I am living in Dhaka for a long time and most of the time I am working for Pakistani
businessmen because I can speak Urdu. Also during trade fairs I work in the Pak is
tani pavilion because they trust Pakistani. The people of Dhaka is good but some
times politician do misbehave with us.
3.3. The inhabitant of Dhaka are mostly deep rooted so they are more powerful and mi-
grants are less, during festival most of the migrant leave Dhaka because they have a con-
nection with village or other city, most of the crime occur due to migrants .
4.2. During eid Dhaka seems to me vacant because most of the people go outside and I
work a lot during that period for selling goods
4.3. during that day a lot of people come to my shop
4.4 pass time in Geneva camp office, talk with others, play karam board, read news paper,
during moharram (festival) I have a lot of work to manage and organize (money
collection). during fair we visit other stall with boy- and girlfriends, my girlfriend
works with me. there is no scope to meet in other places, we talk during work.
4.5. parliament, Museum, new market, gulistan – new market seems to me centre of Dha
ka. That represent Bangladesh
4.6. Geneva camp office.
4.7. when I was young friends encouraged me to join there but now I get that is meaning
less.
4.8. every political party have a part who is more powerful than other
Motijheel , 10-01-2007
1.1 Jahurul Islam
1.2 male
1.3 married, 2 children
1.4 30-40
1.5 secondary
1.6 Islam
1.7. street hawker (sells grocery)
1.8. Motijheel. I had fallen in a business problem in Farmgate so I left that area and I chose
this place for business because people from different place and different work come
here as it’s a office and business area. I have to pay 900 tk per month for this busi
ness to different purpose – there is a line man who collect money for police or oth
ers muscle men
1.9 Goran
1.10 rented house – 2500
1.10a Green road
1.11 yes because it's far from main city, house rent low, not so dust.
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1.12 8-10 000
1.14 16 years
1.13 sirajgonj
2.1 Khilgaon Railgate or mouchak, some times my wife goes alone, sometimes with me.
2.2 daily – motijheel
2.3 bus or rickshaw
2.4. morning 11 to evening at motijheel
2.5. Friday is my off day, I go to kacha bazaar, prayer or other family/ household work
2.6.chawk bazar some friend working there born in shirajgonj, or also some business friend
meet to buy goods for my business
2.9. male are more. female are in deprived in our country, job opportunities are lower for
them. Can you imagine a women hawker on this busy street?
3.1. in shirajgonj I had another business, but Dhaka is a place of multi-skilled people, now
I am adapted here, and learnt how to do business and manage everything
3.2. with my brother but now I am self sufficient, my son goes school, I am working here,
no disadvantages. It's better than any other place in Bangladesh
3.4. old dhakaiya or kutti have some different tone of language
4.2. Shirajgonj with my parents. Here everything is very costly, so I save money to enjoy in
village
4.3 TSC, Shahid minar with my children. pohela boishakh with my wife – mostly in Ram
na Park.
4.4 relative's house
4.5. parliament
4.6. every news first come to this street
4.7 no
4.8. two alliance
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1.1. Faisal Alam
1.4. 17
1.2. m
1.6. islam
1.5. undergraduate
1.7. student
1.8. Mohammadpur central college
1.3. single
1.9. Jahuri Mahalla, mohammadpur
1.10 Rented house, 2200tk a month
1.10a Geneva camp
1.11. Jahury mahalla is obviously better than Geneva camp because it is more open, have
better living condition, playground, but for a bihari Geneva camp is best because most
of my Bengali friends say “you are bihari, do you live in Geneva camp?”. We are very
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few, the biharis living outside Geneva camp. Most of the people outside this camp is
Bengali and still they think we are not real Bangladeshi. But all the people in camp
know each other so here I feel better, it's a friendly environment. Some Bengali people
also show great affection and I have some good friend. In my college, there is no prob
lem at all.
1.12. My family earns 10,000tk
1.14. This is my birth place
2.1 dress from elephant road always with friends and use bus
2.2. Daily college and Geneva camp
2.3. Rickshaw
2.4 I stay at my college from 7-11, then here in the camp till midnight. Here I have friends,
video games, karam board... I go home sometimes for studying if necessary, or for
sleeping.
2.5 Friday I completely spend here
2.6. yes both Bengali and Bihari, but most of my friends live in Geneva camp, I have girl
friend but most of the time I try to avoid the subject of Geneva camp and our condi
tion, they are not so bad but feel embarrassed to hear our story.
2.9 everywhere girls are less in number, because they are harassed everywhere.
3.4. Inhabitant and migrants have some difference – it's dress and language. Like Bengali
and Biharis – Biharis must speak Urdu among each other.
4.1. Friday prayer
4.2. I pray for the Eid prayer outside Geneva camp, then I come here to meet all of my
friends and go outside, sometimes for long trip.
4.3. only 21st February – Ramna or Dhaka university with my college friends
4.4. Geneva camp, caram board, video games, mostly afternoon and evening; or dhanmon
di lake park, nodon, Fantasy kingdom, Zia Uddyan
4.5. parliament, Zia Uddyan (Chandrima Uddyan) Park, usually evening.
4.6 TV
4.7. Paltan with friends – I am not engaged with any political party
4.8. BNP
04-01-2007, mirpur 10
1.1. Sikandar
1.2. m
1.3 .married – 4 (2 daughter, marriage after primary level)
1.4. 56
1.5. no
1.6. islam
1.7 .selling banana/ selling cow (when I lived in village)
1.8. mirpur 10
1.9. mirpur 10
1.10 rented house – 2000tk
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1.11. it’s walking distance. I can go very quickly from here to any work at my home leav
ing banana here, none will touch it.
1.12. 9000 tk /month
1.13. patuakhaly (region of river and low land, flood is frequent)
1.14. 12 years
2.1 mirpur 1 or 10
2.2. Daily I go to tegjaon for buying banana
2.3. Bus for going, and returning by van
2.4 I seat here from 7 am to 10 pm . I take food from restaurant because my wife lives in
village – every 3 to 6 month I go there. I have a piece of land in village - that’s also
source of some food.
2.5 A no
2.6. shopkeepers, mostly fruit sellers. I know a lot of people but no so attached with them,
even during eid they never invite me.
2.7 I have a bank account, one of the guard of that bank is my friend - he told me save
something for older period.
2.9 women are more, nothing in this city is only for women, place is not so bad that wom
en feel unsecured, but sometimes accident occur.
3.1. I like Dhaka because of work, here one can change profession, when I first came here
it seems to me difficult but now it is ok, I can sell other fruits and goods .
3.4. Yes –inhabitants are not so cordial to receive new comer but migrants receive same ar
eas people cordially, like people of patuakhali who live in Dhaka for long time
helped me by giving some logistic support.
3.2. I came here because of hunger and poverty. I collect and borrowed some money before
coming here. here business is good if you do sincerely, but I have to pay police and
house owner (in front of which I am selling banana )
4.1. mosque, but I have no way to go regularly because then I should leave my bananas
4.2.I spend Eid usually in Dhaka, my wife comes from village with one or two of my
daughters. They stay here for a week, I show them nearby place, we do not go so
far
4.5. Gulshan – it seems to me a box but buildings are nice, though Savar is like my village.
4.6. tv news, street people
4.8. BNP
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1.1. Sagor
1.2 m
1.3 unmarried
1.4. 17
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. student
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1.8. Mohammadpur Central college (Nurjahan Road) People of Pakistani origin can’t be
admitted in local colleges because they are yet not Bangladeshi nationals and have no
voting right. So we usually get access to school by using another address which be
longs to friends.
1.9. C block, Geneva Camp. International Red cross sent help after liberation war and the
name may be related to Geneva convention or Geneva.
1.10 We don’t have to pay for land or house
1.12. 10 thousand earns by all of my family members
1.13 this is my birth place
1.14 I was born here and I have never lived outside this camp. I am always planning how
to go outside this colony but it’s really tough because I have to earn more money to go
outside and without education it is tough. Also getting education is quite tough here,
very few of us are educated. This area is very congested, in my family we live in a 8
feet by 6 feet room - we are 9 in number. I have 6 brothers, so nothing is personal or
private but everyday we face everybody.
2.1. my mother usually go to market but sometimes I go to new market for cloths, I go
alone or with some of my friends or sometimes with my elder brother because he fi
nances everything.
2.2. Daily: college and at my friend's house in Mohammadpur housing (I used his address
for college admission)
2.3. Bus or rickshaw
2.4. I wake up at 8-9 this one hour is a rush for toilet and bathing here because everything
here is common sharing so it needs to wait a lot. I go to the college at 10 and return af
ternoon. During evening I go outside of this camp usually to my friend’s house.
2.5. every Friday I go to a computer training center for learning computer basics and watch
movie in my friend’s house, I sleep more because other day I don’t have enough
time.
2.6. mohammadpur, actually all of my friends are my classmates. I feel shy to travel or
even mix with girls, I think my religious education may be a cause. Now situation is
changing some girls (bangali) marry the bihari boy, but still it’s a problem for me if my
girl friend /boyfriend knows that I live in here they will deny me .
2.9 boys /males are more. Parents doesn’t permit females to go out side , religion in fact a
great barrier for women.
3.1. I was born here but my parents not - they still want to go back Pakistan but we don’t
because we think nothing better is waiting for us in Pakistan. We want to live here, we
want to meet the Bengalis as brothers. In Geneva Camp we need all facilities. I want
friends and also good friendship. Like me, most of my friends like to live in Dhaka
4.1. if I have enough time usually Friday I go to the mosque.
4.2. nothing is different here during Eid, it’s not more than food, though sometimes I go
out side Dhaka city with my friends. During this Eid I went to Sylhet with some of
my friends, I like traveling. When I get free time I go out side Dhaka. For common
festival we the educated people go outside of the camp like Dhaka university to cel
ebrate.
4.4. afternoon, usually at 5 PM at my friend's house in Mohammadpur/or tea stall or some
other place nearby camp. college, botanical garden, dhanmondi lake
4.5. it’s Mohammadpur, at least there are some trees, other areas seems to me desert with
out trees.
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4.6. college/Tv
4.7. from my college I went to the shahid minar with procession.
4.8. I hate politics but in general Bihari people think that during the time of Ersad and
Hasina we get more benefit than others. But now politics belongs to some criminals
23-01-2007, Geneva camp
1.1 Mostary Begom
1.2. f
1.3. married- 6 children - we all live in this room
1.4. 60+
1.5. School and language literate
1.6. Islam
1.7. Once I was a teacher and earned 8000 Tk/month. Now I am a private tutor for Urdu
Different places, like Dhanmondi, Ghigatola, Banglamotor....
1.9. Geneva Camp
1.10 no
1.10a Mohammadpur. My father came from Punjab/ Uttar Pradesh for job before Libera
tion and we all children were born here.
1.11 Here in this single room we live in almost 10 members and this place is so congested
but we don’t have to pay that’s why we are here
1.12. 5000 mine and 5000 others
1.13. I was born in Dhaka, I am living here for last 35 years
2.1 Geneva camp. Most of time I avoid to go to the market, my sons go there
2.2 daily, to reach the homes of my students.
2.3. bus/ rickshaw – when I started, as I was young, it seemed to me difficult but now I am
habituated to hard work.
2.4 I start my journey from 10 am and finish at 5 pm, then I do household work
2.5 when I feel sick, that’s my only holiday...
2.9. Girls are more in number, because of garment otherwise household level women less
go outside
3.1 Here in Dhaka I born but I have no voting right, even we are outside of other facilities,
my students are most rich families from Mumbai, Delhi who have a wish to teach
their child Urdu
3.4. There is a difference in culture, for example inhabitants show more respect on each
others and on us Bihari, migrants are more ignorant. Biharis and Bengalis also have
differences, like marriage, festivals..
4.2. Eid? ...I get free time, I do no have to go to work - that’s all
4.4 here nothing is leisure time, every one is working, we can talk and work together. but
in my case most of the time is outside
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11-12-2006, Bonogram / Shismahal
1.1 parvin begom
1.2 female
1.3 Married
1.4 20-30
1.5 primary
1.6 Muslim
1.7 I am a private Arabic tutor
1.8 Wari
1.9 Shismahal: 1 and ½ an hour.
1.10 rented house -2000
1.10a Bonogram is the place where I was born, once we lived in another house but some
criminals kicked us out.
1.11 yes this place is good for low rent of house. Bonogram is actually in the hands of
criminals. It used to be a good place, where all of us had separate homes, but now
we all live in a single room.
1.12 1200 of mine + 3-4 000 my husband
1.14 I was born here.
2.1 Thatari Bazar – food, Razdhani- Tikatuly
2.2. daily I go to three places near my house for private tuition. I have some students, they
learn Arabic from me
2.3 On foot / Rickshaw
2.4. I go outside for 3-4 hours for private tuition and it needs some times to go there, I
spend some more time for my children’s homework, then I have to cook, all tasks a
woman has in the home..
2.5. when I have no tuition, I do a lot for my family members.
2.6. I have not enough time to regularly meet with friends.
2.9. no place only for women, only inner place of home, women are less in number.
3.1. yes, Dhaka is a good place, some people are interested to mix with people some are
not .
3.4. the inhabitants of Dhaka know what actually good environment is, they are clean,
their behavior is good. But the migrants are nasty in most of the cases.
4.1. go to the mosque, there are some for women, too, in Dhaka, on Friday I go to the High
Court Mosque.
4.2. We stay in Dhaka, food and cloths is the major element for celebrating Eid. I have a
very limited friend circle and thus it is mainly among our relatives.
4.3. For Bangla New Year I sometimes go out to join the festivities, but I remain here near,
I don't go as far as Ramna
4.4. Relatives' house
4.6. TV, I always watch TV because my husband works outside and I am always tensed
about political struggles.
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04-01-2007, Mirpur –13 (Banaful Tribal Greenheart College)
1.1 Pintu Chakma
1.2 male
1.3. single
1.4. 14
1.5 Class seven
1.6 Buddhist
1.7 Student
1.8. Mirpur 13 (Banaful Tribal Greenheart College)
1.9 school dormitory
1.10 hostel; I have to pay 4000 per month for accommodation, study and meal.
1.11 yes, this is a good and clean place, my study and residence place is same and most of
friends live here
1.12. no, my father send money to school authority not to me.
1.14 for one year
1.13 Rangamati
2.1 new market with my sister and mirpur alone (walking distance)
2. 2 no, there are restrictions. Only when school remains closed like during Eid vacation, I
go outside of my campus but not alone - with my elder sister.
2.3. riskshaw or bus
2.4. my school starts early morning 8-1.30 / then lunch / coaching for making home task /
evening prayer/ self study .
2.5. Friday have no class but we do exercise and play some games during day time, gossip
with friends / evening prayer and sleep more than usual.
2.6.I have no Muslim friend, most my friends are tribal ; all are student but very few ser
vice holders - one lives with me and now we are friend.
3.1. yes Dhaka is good for education but rangamati is good for greenery and mountain, our
culture is something different from Dhaka but Dhaka is capital and therefore it has
a lot of things and it's good. Dhaka is full of buildings, but less joy. my father send
me here only for study and that’s my target.. here most advantageous matter is
study facility and competitiveness. Traffic is a major disadvantage and population
load is so high. Rangamati is like a picture but for study many people are moving to
dhaka
3.4. in this school everyone is new comer for that reason I don’t know nothing about origi-
nal inhabitant of Dhaka.
4.1. during Buddhist religious festivals I stay here because most of the event occur here. I
join all the prayer. I went once basabo temple .
4.2. Not far from school, I attend the cultural program at school
4.3.. Zia Uddyan, Zoo-with my sister. She also lives here. when school is closed we visit
nearby place and street.
4.5. Zia uddyan is a beautiful place.
4.6. no, I have no interest, because I have no gain on this issue.
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06-01-2007, Motijheel
1.1.Ataur Rahman Russel
1.2. m
1.4. 12
1.6. islam
1.7. Madrasa student
1.8. Dhanmondi madrasa
1.9. Kamrangir Chor (Sandbar) is my father's living place but I live in my madrasa hostel; I
have to pay to my madrasa 2000 per month for lodging and meal
1.10a Chandpur where my mother lives with my another brother, Kamrangir Chor with my
father
1.11. madrasa is a very restricted place I can't move any where without permission of my
teachers. My father some times picks me up from there and brings me outside, with
him to work.
1.12. my father 10,000
1.13 Chandpur
1.14 25 years my father
2.2.I know the route, sometimes I also go from Motijheel to Dhanmondi alone, by bus
2.4. routine is according to madrasa teachers and their command. in the evening, we sing
Islamic music
2.5. Friday we arrange long prayer
2.6. most of the student of my madrasa
2.7 a musical team, named mohammadia islami musical team
3.1. dhaka is good, it looks beautiful, I have a lot of friends. I like Dhaka because it is the
capital city. I like more people, I like more vehicle
3.4. student both Dhaka and others live together, there are no problem.
4.2. Chandpur with my mother and brother and also my father, I go around the whole vil
lage with my brother
4.3. no, that time I go there in my village
4.4. we do some physical exercise and practice Islamic music
4.5. BDR camp, mina bazaar , dhanmondi is very beautiful
26-12-2007, Moinarbug- badda
1.1. Alifa akhter Popy
1.2. female
1.3. married
1.4. 19
1.5. primary
1.6. islam
1.7 I work as a guard for GROUP 4
1.8. Mohakahali
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1.9. Badda
1.10 Rented house – 1500 (semi-pucca)
1.10a no
1.11 I work in Mohakahali that’s an overcrowded place and my residence is far more silent
than my working place. It's not near, but to a walking distance from main road, so
my husband choose this place for my safety
1.12 4000+ 4000= 8000tk
1.13 I lived in different places – like Mymensingh (1995-2006), and Chittagong from my
childhood , my father work in a paper mill. Chittagong is totally different from
Dhaka.
1.14 my husband lives here for long time but I live here for last 3 months
2.1 Gulshan 1 is close to my working place, when I get some free time I go there with
someone of my colleagues and buy necessary things.
2.2 daily, BRAC INN, Mohakhali, which is my working place
2.3 Rickshaw, it's costly but I and my husband work in the same company and our working
places are near to each other, so we go together, it seems to us cost effective.
2.4. from 8-6 is our duty, cooking, go nearby shop for necessary things, TV . that’s all
2.5. Friday I have no official duty but for a women that’s the busiest day, male can take
rest, female can’t. I have to arrange thing for next few days like washing clothes for
office, entertain my husband, cooking good food.
2.6. yes, there are some girls, we work together, now we share most of things happening
around us, generally I choose friend from my work, like when I was a student from
my class, now from my office, I am curious about stranger but I take time to judge.
I have made friendship with a boy who is working in the telecom sector, he is from
Middle East and he has a interpreter and we talk, sometimes he calls me, he lives in
a hotel, I sometimes go there, for talk, food. he is good.
2.9. 7-8 at morning when we start our journey for office women are more, in the evening
men are more – it becomes even tough to walk on the street as some people are re
ally bad, always try to touch the body
3.1. I like village rather than this city. Dhaka is so busy and traffic, in my village there have
ponds that’s not our property, but no restriction to use that pond for swimming or
collecting water from there, even there are places from where we catch fish without
need for permission, but in this city nothing is free – we have to pay for water,
some green plants (vegetables ) is free in village , if you have time you can collect
them from pond side or field. but here price is so high!!! I dislike so many people ,
but when I back to my house I feel better
3.2. since our marriage my husband had a wish to bring me here but he could not because
of money but when he able to manage work for me he just bring me here for work
and our dream become true. beggar and hawker are most disturbing to me I tell
them further and further “Sorry” but who cares. another things seems to me disturb
ing: that’s the disturbance of young people at street, they think we are so cheap –
because we live a slum like place.
3.4. language is different
4.1. no, I don’t have time to pray / but when some trouble comes or I wish something, then
I seat for pray
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4.1.a. when I was younger I went to my friends' house who are non Muslims (HINDU) to
enjoy their festivals, now I got that is prohibited by our religion
4.3. no, I sometimes went to school during childhood for observing the social and national
festivals
4.4. Zia uddyan, Savar , Gulshan, Lake park, Airport – I came to dhaka few days ago and
my husband took me different places .
4.5. my knowledge of Dhaka is limited and lake park in Gulshan 2 is the best place in my
memory
14-12-2006, Lalmatia / Block A / on the cricket field behind aarong
1.1 Md. Shahabur Rahman
1.2male
1.3 single
1.4 20-30
1.5 graduate
1.6 Islam
1.7 student
1.8 Dhanmondi -27
1.9 Jigatola
1.10 rented mess house, we share room by 3 student (1250x3)
1.10a Sankar, Mirpur 1. Most of my friends live in Jigatola and, for many reasons, I need
their help. Mirpur 1 is far from my university so I changed my place. Basically I
have left most of my previous places due to communication gaps and lack of trans
portation.
1.11 yes, jigatala is a nice place, I like to live alone and to see what people do. I like the
lake when I feel bored and I observe beautiful things around lake. Raifle Square is
near my house and I some time pass leisure time there.
1.12 I have no income, my father send me 4000 tk /monthly
1.13 KUSTIA and JHENADAH, that place is basically nor city nor village (in Kustia there
is some industry, but not in Jhenadah).
1.14 I am living here for 1 year
2.1There is a schedule for our mess, I have 3 day duty to go to market for Kacha bazaar,
then I go to Jigatala Bazaar. New market is a great place for me.
2.2 Daily university and weekly SAVAR or UTTARA.
2.3 Bus
2.4 university/ class/ Adda / Mess/ TV/ Music/ MOVIE/ computer - that’s my routine
2.5 When I have no class I sleep long also in day time, I go for prayer, and I spend most of
my evening at the Dhanmondi Lake, Robindro sarobor , or some other place.
2.6 yeah, classmates. I have no girl friend, I have not enough time to spend for that pur
pose.
2.7 I am a member of a cultural club in my village, every year they arrange drama and oth
ers
2.9. male are more, because male can move in existing situation, whereas female can't
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3.1. Dhaka is sometimes good, sometimes bad. when I am in class with my friend- that’s
good time (time for making dream) when alone something different, I feel overall
good when I am in my university.
3.2. for study, nothing more, here everyone is thinking about carrier
3.3. I can't understand the people!!!!!! ...When somebody was robbed in village, a lot of
people will try to help or at least show sympathy, but here none shows any sort of
sympathy… it seems to me that right people is not in right place or right work is ab
sent or less frequent for them
4.2. I always miss my parents and relatives and Eid or other festive is the opportunity to
meet them. Whenever I get 3-4 days of holiday, I go home.
4.3. TSC. If there is program I enjoy the music, dance with others. When I go to TSC, usu
ally I also pass to Ramna.
4.4. Sometimes with friends and sometimes alone, everyone has their individual work and
function.
4.5. I don’t know, but I like Basundhara City and Fantasy kingdom
4.6. newspaper
4.7. no politics, I can remember a social procession with my friends
4.8. all the power belongs to the leader
Tejgaon
1.1 Mohammad Shafiq
1.2 Male
1.3 Married, 2 children (1son 1 daughter)
1.4 25 years age
1.5 No
1.6 Islam
1.7 Barber
1.8 Nakhal para
1.9 Nakhal para, lane nr. 12
1.10 Rented house
1.10a No
1.11 yes, because I have my work here, transportation is good
1.12. Monthly 5-10 thousands
1.13 Dhunot, Bogura
1.14 Last 10 years, I came alone
2.1 Farmgate is the central place and I buy everything from there
2.2 everyday I go to market near Nakhal para
2.3 On foot
2.4. Early morning open the lock of the barber shop, work here till 11 pm. Lunch break for
sometime, at midnight I meet my family
2.5 Friday is same to other day, my working time is half only at Sunday
2.6 yes, they work in barber shops, some are small businessmen, also the young men seat
in front of my shop are friends
2.7 Yes I am member of the hairdresser association
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2.9. walking alone is a problem in our country, there is no place only for women. My wife
works in an organization (NGO), I have no problem, she earns money that’s good
share.
3.1.Once I love the village but now I'm happy to live in Dhaka because here there is mon
ey, although people are always in a hurry and time is much faster.
3.2. for work, here have better education facility , my son go to school
3.4. no difference, for my work I have to keep in touch with all the people
4.1.a. I go sometimes nearby Nakhal Para church just see the outlook.
4.2. Dhaka, new cloth for my children is a must. I do more work and earn more in festivals
4.3. I have not enough time to go there
4.4. Gabtoli and mirpur to visit my relatives house; zoo is the place where I usually go
with my wife and children because they like it very much
4.5. I don’t know any place
4.6. TV, newspaper – but actually a lot of young people talk for long times in my shop and
I hear from them
4.7. NO
18-01-2007, Demra, Chonpara – ward no -6
1.1.Samad
1.2. m
1.3. Married – 3
1.4. 55
1.5 .no
1.6. islam
1.7. CNG driver - I can only work just 8 hours, because there are lots of drivers and none
can drive whole day long
1.8. Whole Dhaka
1.9. Chonpara
1.10a Naraiongonj is my place of birth; then I lived at Sonargaon and then Tejgaon for 2
years
1.11.Yes this place good because I don't have to pay any house rent
1.12 6,000
1.13 naraingonj
1.14 I came to this slum after liberation war
2.1 I buy everything from Chonpara because it's cheaper than other place
2.2. Daily CNG – whole Dhaka
2.3. At first I go to Saiedabad by bus then I get my CNG
2.4. I take my lunch, that’s the beginning of my day. Then I go to Saiedabad at 3 pm, I start
to work at 5 pm. I generally work up to midnight and then I return to my home and
sleep till midday.
2.5 I have no holiday
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2.6. I and my other two brothers are CNG-drivers so we have good friend circle mostly
CNG owner and driver
2.7 we have a society for sharing money and draw it through lottery.
2.9. market and roads are full of women. Women can't move because of lack of freedom
3.3 many people travel on my CNG; some are good and some are bad, I am habituated to
deal with people, but I think if I fall in trouble none will help me
3.2. I came here with my parents, then I started to work, I think it's better than village most
of my childhood friend still in bad condition.
3.4. most of the migrants keep their tradition from village, so dress is an important factor
nothing more. old town still seems to me friendlier than new town
4.1. hardly ever
4.2. For eid, we stay in Dhaka, I go to Gulistan for cloths with my wife, there are no rela
tive here so we stay at home
4.3. my son wants to go but cost is so high to move with family so I can't take him to Dha
ka, if he goes with me he demands more thing.
4.4. nearby tea stall, there are a lot of people from my same village so, I like to meet them
4.5. Dhaka is different than village or other town - how can I find Bangladesh in Dhaka
4.8. Caretaker govt.
20-12-2006, Tejgaon Railway Colony
1.1. Md. Shafiqul Islam
1.2 Male
1.3 Unmarried
1.4 19 years
1.5 Secondary (Class Eight)
1.6 Islam
1.7 Business (Fish)
1.8 Kawran Bazar
1.9 Tejkunipara / Temporary
1.10 Rented house and monthly rent 2000 along with my family
1.10a No
1.11 yes, because I have a lot of friends here, it's near Farmgate, I can go to any place ac
cording to my necessity
1.12 6,000 per month
1.13 Narshingdi
1.14 my family lives here for 15-16 years
2.1. Farmgate is famous for cheap things, I buy everything from there, sometimes I go to
Mohakhali for some shopping.
2.2 Daily I go to Farmgate and Kawran Bazaar - Gulistan, Badda, Banani on weekly basis.
2.3 Rickshaw for my business place and Bus for banani or other place
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2.4. Every evening I seat here (tea stall in his locality), 7-11 is my business time, if I
bought some fish and sell it immediately, sleep at noon and play cricket and bad
minton at afternoon / evening.
2.5 Totally no work, Adda and play all day long.
2.6 yes. a lot of students and servicemen, tea stall and BNP office, everyday I go there for
playing Karam Board and Adda
2.7 yes, political party. BNP, in party office we go for watching TV and playing cards and
others, some times party gives some money
2.9 girls are more, I think so. A lot of girls here and there.
3.1. yes, for business it’s good , life is good it’s better than norshingdi.
3.2. for work, I am not that interested to study for that reason I came with my family for
work.
3.4 the people who are born in Dhaka usually wear white lungi and white shirt , they are
crazy and sometimes moody and think Dhaka is their property as they are the fore
fathers (he’s thinking of the dhakayas in Old Dhaka!)
4.1. yes but not so frequent / mosque
4.1.a. yes I have a lot of Hindu friends and I visit every puja festives, sometimes I visit the
church with my friends but never went inside, friends of other religions are good.
4.2. Dhaka, we enjoy a lot, arrange a concert after Eid day and we are the singer and
dancer, we collect money from friend circle and some from local people .
4.3. yes , Cantonment (During 16th of December ), Airport (some military show), Romna
(1st boishakh)
4.4. during free time I go to Shangshadbhaban (Parliament ) area , ramna, trade fair, or any
other fair, Arms fair. I have a lot of girlfriends, always I talked with her by mobile
phone - sometimes I meet with her (once a month); Dhanmondi lake, Botanical
garden, Ashulia, Ramna, I have a lot of girlfriends, usually I go to Dhanmondi with
girlfriend.
4.5. Sher-e-Bangla Nagar
4.6. in our Local BNP office, TV. We follow our senior leaders, we follow what they say,
their command is our duty
4.7. yes, seniors phone me, order me to manage some people, I manage some of my
friends and junior and go to the procession. Basically muktangon , Palton, BNP of
fice.
4.8. I don’t know. BNP has a lot of power
04-01-2007, Mirpur 2
1.1 Shilpi
1.2 female
1.3 single
1.4 17
1.5 Primary
1.6 Islam
1.7 Garment worker
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1.9 Mirpur 1 new block C
1.10 rented house; 4000Tk/month; my brother and father pay the rent
1.10a Mirpur 1 - A block
1.11. I have lived in Mirpur for most of my time in Dhaka, all the people working in Dhaka
live here as the living costs are lower than any other place. My family knows some
people here so this is good for my family and for me too.
1.12. 2000tk
1.13 I was born in Bagerhat
1.14 I have lived here for 5 years, we came as a family
2.1 mirpur 1 cooperative market
2.2 daily – garment industry for work .. garment workers have not enough time to go out
side for recreation; walking for home is our time to talk with friends.
2.3 on foot
2.4 my working time is whole day 7-5 and then I do overtime until 7 / then I watch tv/ do
some thing for my family (cooking, some homework..)
2.5 I enjoy the free time with my family members. I sometimes go outside nearby with my
friend.
2.6 yes, all of them are garment workers
2.9. no there is no place only for women. due to family restriction women can't go outside.
If I go outside with my girlfriends, then my family never forbids me, but with
boyfriend it is impossible.
3.1. Dhaka is a good place for work. There is a sharp difference between rich and poor.
Now I am living better than in the village, there was work but not on a loan basis.
Poverty is so extreme there, so... Dhaka is good and I have to stay here at any cost.
3.2 I came here for work. work is the main advantage. Every one like to live in village but
Dhaka is a place of lot of work so it is a must to come here.
4.1.home / but not so frequent
4.2. of two Eid I spend one in Dhaka and one in village. my village is full of joy. Here for
every event you have to spend money but my village has river and greenery I can
enjoy everything free. I bought a new dress in this Eid and I am happy because I
bought some dress for my family by my own money.
4.4. Zoo once with my whole family
4.6. I know all the political information from TV.
11-12-2006, Bangla bazaar North brook hall road
1.1 Md. Zainal Abedin
1.2 male
1.3 married, 1
1.4 50-60
1.5 Secondary
1.6 Islam
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1.7 Business (onion)
1.8 Gendaria
1.9 Rented house for 6,000Tk
1.10 I shifted house but not neighborhood.
1.10a I like the place for lot of friends and known people
1.11 yes, when I started to live here population density was so low, now people are many
fold. 10 years ago, I used to have a huge business, but now business is in fluctua
tion. in that time some people initiate different types of business and water trans
portation greatly influenced us but now roads are the main transport route
1.12 5-10,000
1.13 Faridpur is my birth place – enormous joy is linked to that place – playing all day
long wit mud and dust, bathing in the river, swimming... that’s sonar bangla
1.14 last 35 years
2.1 I buy dresses for all as none of the female members of my family go outside for shop
ping. I don't allow them because women's place is the home, they have no choice,
my choice is their choice because I am the one who's earning money
2.2 weekly, I go to Gulistan to buy something for family otherwise this neighborhood is
enough.
2.3 rickshaw
2.4 I am a middle man, I buy onion and sell them and this is the way I make some profit,
but I have no storage room
2.5 I have no Friday
2.6 I have a very good connection with whole sellers, rich men and even with labors, busi
nessmen, laborers...
3.1. yes, Dhaka is a good place, people are good, if you choose your own way that’s ok,
none can influence you
3.4. There is a language difference (he's referring to kuttis!) but all are here for food
4.1. mosque, there is a famous mosque called suritola mosque
4.1.a I go to Atroshi Pirer Mazar
4.2. usually I spend it at Dhaka, sometimes in village. I like that cold windy climate, the
greenery and joy of those days
4.3. yes, good food for Pohela Boishakh is important, cause that’s the beginning – then all
the year will be good
4.5. GULSHAN is a nice area in Dhaka... my place near the Buriganga has a similarity
with my village
4.6. TV, news paper
05-12-2006, Chandromohon Bosak Lane – Star Restaurant Old Dhaka
1.1 Bikram Saha
1.2male
1.3 married, 3 children in university age
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1.4 58
1.5 master
1.6 hindu
1.7 business
1.8 motijheel
1.9 Gopibug
1.10 rented house -5500
1.11 I came to Dhaka in my student life and since that time I have a fascination for moti
jheel, that’s a good commercial area and my living place is not far from business
1.12 25.000
1.13 Comilla is my place of birth
1.14 39 years
2.1 food from Thatari Bazar and clothes from Ramna Baban
2.2 daily I go to Motijheel, sometime to Abdullahpur
2.3 on foot / rickshaw
2.4First I go for my morning walk, then I pass for bahadur shah park for rest, afterwards I
have my business work, and after it I make adda in local tea stall (Wari), evening shopping
from nearer kacha bazaar
2.5 most of the weekend I spend for business communication. sometimes go to comilla
2.6 I meet regularly most of my friends, they are basically bankers, govt and private job
holders, all of them are my university life’s friend.
2.9. ratio of f to m is 45:55...
3.1. comilla has some interesting place but I think now Dhaka is better than that for its fa
cilities.
3.4 inhabitants of Dhaka are hardly trying to defend their position, sometimes they are fe
rocious for power, migrant always try to do something for betterment.
4.1. I am a regular visitor of Ramkrishna mondir
4.2. during religious festivities I go to comilla to meet my sisters, I like the songs – reli
gious songs (Kirton) -, eat some fresh food and talk with villagers about welfare
projects. few years ago I used to have certain interest for social festivities (Pujas)
but now I don’t.
4.4. Ramkrishna Mission, some of my friends come there at 6 pm and we spend some time
together.
4.5. Baldha Garden
4.6. TV, News Paper
4.7. during university life, with my room mates
4.8. it's all about political leaders
Abdullah pur Sector no -9, road -10, Uttara
1.1 Alal
1.2. male
1.3. unmarried
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1.4. 24
1.5.Secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. I am working in a garment industry
1.8. Uttara Housing Building – JAAN garments.
1.9. Abdullahpur housing
1.10 Own. It belongs to my parents and my brothers' families. We all are mostly employed
in garment industry and related fields
1.11 yes, I have lived here from childhood, I lived in a combined family so I get every nec
essary support.
1.12 3-5 thousand
1.14 last 60 years my family lives here
2.1. I do shopping for my family, kacha bazaar from abdullahpur, for cloths I go to Tongi,
Rajlokhoi shopping complex in Uttara.
2.2 daily for my work in Uttara
2.3 by bus
2.4. 8-5 I work, then watch TV, spend time at home alone. I go outside Dhaka very sel
dom but once or twice I went to Comilla to meet my grandmother.
2.5 during holidays I spend time at home, I dislike streets and markets due to huge gather
ing
2.6 I have only one friend, he has been a friend from long time, he is a business man, our
age is same, I dislike to talk with girls, they always tell a lie, I like villagers and
poor people, they are good.
2.9. home is only place for women, male are more in number, it's their duty. The function
of women is to stay or work at home, although some who are interested can go to
the college and some to work.
3.1. I like Dhaka but I don't trust on people, so I like to live alone. Sometimes friends do
or say bad things, I dislike that. I live in a very big family of totally 31 including
cousins. But I stay alone how can I trust people most of the people break promises.
3.4. there is no difference in between them. What’s the difference between inhabitant and
migrant – only behavior.
4.1. mosque, Jamia Saba mosque
4.1.a A I never go to other religious festivities.
4.2. Dhaka, after prayer I stay at home, wear good dress and take good food - that’s all my
eid
4.3. I install a small food shop near my home and sell food to others like family members
and local people and earn some money, I like it rather than move.
4.4. I spend time in my room or near my home.
4.5. Ashulia
4.6. from TV, poster on the street, flyers..
4.7. I dislike
4.8. caretaker govt
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Mohakali
1.1 Alea Begum
1.2 female
1.3 married/ 2 (1son 1 daughter)
1.4 45 years age
1.5 primary
1.6 islam
1.7 Housewife
1.9 Nurer Chala Badda 1212
1.10 Own house
1.10a Yes, Jurain, 20 years ago, that was a rented house
1.11 Yes, this is my house, own, water/ gas/ electricity better than jurain, more than that it
is my own house with garden having mango and other trees.
1.12 My son is a govt service holder and husband has business income 15,000
1.14 Last 45 years by born (jurain)
2.1 Nurer Chala kacha bazar, Gulshan bazaar, Badda bazaar
2.2 everyday I go with my grand-daughter for school, monthly I go to my fathers house
still he is alive that’s my responsibility, sometimes I go to my relatives house
2.3. Bus / Rickshaw
2.4. I spend the morning from 7-12 at my grand-daughter's school. Afterwards I go to
Kacha Bazar, cooking , teach my grand-daughter, watch TV.
2.5 I wash clothes, take care of my family members, I pray and sometimes go outside of
my home, mostly for a visit to the relatives'.
2.6 yes, guardians who stay in front of the school and wit for long time - they are my usual
partners of talking; every day, I talk with the neighbours on the street beside my
house, I dislike to go to other people's home
2.7 Yes, I'm member of Annessa Multipurpose society – monthly 100 tk
2.9. walking alone is a problem in our country, there is no place only for women.
3.1. I have never been outside Dhaka, sometime I feel to go to a village for short period.
But I love Dhaka because I was born here and spend my entire life.
4.1. home
4.1.a I have never been to other religious place
4.2. We stay in Dhaka. Every year, it is my usual habit to visit my father's house, I bring
special sweetmeat, and I also visit neighbours or relatives. Wearing new dresses is
an important part of these holidays.
4.3 If school is open, my grand-daughter goes to school to join the cultural programme
4.4. Wonderland in Gulshan with my grand-daughter, 3-6 month interval because it is very
expensive
4.5. Cantonment area for silence and calm
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1.1. Name Joyanta Howlader
1.2. Gender male
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 20-30
1.5. university
1.6 Religion Islam
1.7. film business
1.8. anywhere for business
1.9. Temporary, in Indira Road. I share the flat with my sister, she works as a photographer
and teaches in Drik's school.
1.10. Rent
1.11. It's a nice area
1.12 d) 10-20,000
1.13. Have you ever lived in other cities in Bangladesh and abroad? In Puna, for university.
1.14. Since 1990, I came for study purpose from my birth-town, Jessore.
2.1.different places, if necessary. I don't need much. Whenever I need something, then I
would go to a shopping centre like those in Dhanmondi (Agora, Almas), where
middle and upper class go. Books – sometimes, at Aziz Supermarket.
2.2. Everyday Gulshan, Dhanmondi, for business.
2.3. How do you reach there? by bus and CNG.
2.4 Well, I am lazy, or, let's say, I follow the thought of Lalom, I don't like to rush for
money or work but try to enjoy my life. I wake up at 11-12, pretty late for my coun
trymen, but in general my routine depends on work-load in every situation.
2.6. They are artists, having a background as Art School students, and film business
people. We gather in different places, mostly Art College.
2.7. I used to be committed to a leftist party during the 90es, I traveled along the coun
tryside to make propaganda but after the fall of URSS the leftist activism has
suffered a lot. I also quitted.
3.1. Dhaka is relatively progressive in Bangladesh, other cities don't have a “modern” urb
an life at all, whereas you can find more things here, from politics to lifestyle.
3.4.Yes, values, the style of clothes, mentality are different. Only Dhaka has an urban envir
onment, which you can't find in other cities and in the countryside. So, people here
are more cosmopolitan.
4.1 I don't pray
4.3 I don't join them because either they are too crowded, or I find that the original mean
ing and way to celebrate these days have gone lost and are falling into a wave of
Western fashion.
4.4. I hang around at Art College, Aziz.
4.5. Nothing, I wouldn't say we have anything like this.
4.7. Yes, during my university time – I took part in the processions from Paltan, Shahbagh,
University.
4.8. Dhaka University.
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19-12-2006, Krishi Market / New Kacha Bazar
1.1 Kalachan Dewan
1.2 Male
1.3 married
1.4 60 +
1.5 primary
1.6 Islam
1.7 Household level work / agriculture I have 40 Katha of land / 2 Bigha
1.8 bikrampur / Munshigonj
1.9. Bikrampur, but now I am living with my daughter's house in Mohammadpur for a
short while
1.10 yes, I live in my own house in Munshigonj
1.10a Yes naraiongonj and Munshigonj. Munshi gonj is my permanent place, Mohammad
pur is my daughter's house, she lived with her husband and children, I have rela
tives in Naraingonj
1.11 I like village, because it is clean and silent, whereas Dhaka is a very dirty and noisy
place - still, I come here weekly for recreation; when I come to Dhaka, I must
spend some time here, because the owner of this shop is my relative
1.12 20-50 thousands
1.13 yes Naraiongonj and Munshigonj
1.14 I have never lived here permanently, but I have been a frequent visitor for last 15
years.
2.1 sometimes I go to the market in Mohammadpur, now the prices of all things are higher
- both in town and village.
2.3. Bus/ Launch / Rickshaw/ walk
2.5. in my village there is no holiday
2.9 equal number of male and female. in my village women go out less frequently, they
just move from one house to another, not so far away.
3.1. Dhaka would be good without traffic jam, so dirty it needs to be cleaned up, so many
people, but I like to travel. people live here for work, village is good but there are
no offices there, you know...
3.4. The people of Dhaka is similar to my village, though some people in old town and
nearer are different – maybe because they do business and kutti have different lan
guage.
20-12-2006 Tejgaon Rail colony, General Information
1.1 Lipi Akhter
1.2 Female
1.3 Married / 3 (1son 2 daughter)
1.4 30 years age
1.5 Secondary
1.6 Islam
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1.7 housewife; I used to work in a garment factory, but now I have quitted because of my
children
1.9 Tejgaon
1.10 Rented house. This is basically govt house for railway officer but now we are living
here as sublet because they extend the building for increasing their earning. We
have to pay 4000tk.
1.11 yes, because here my neighbours are mostly railway worker /officer-, garment worker,
construction worker, this place was famous for crime but now it is safe.
1.12 Monthly 10-20 thousands (my husbands income)
1.13Jamalpur, I love the that place more than Dhaka because of crop fields, the space of
my living is narrow, sometimes it is boring.
1.14 Last 12 years
2.1 Farmgate, railway colony market and kawran bazaar is the place where I buy every-
thing
2.2 Farmgate is the place where I go regularly –for my children’s school, shopping,
Kawran bazaar for kacha bazar
2.3 On foot/ Rickshaw
2.4 In the morning I go to my children' school, then come back at 12, go to the kacha
bazaar, cook food, sewing clothes for my family members, learn Quran, learning
sewing also.
2.5 Friday and some other day I go for tablik (religious learning), Friday I have more work,
and I have to do work for my husband. Sometimes we go to the Parliament build
ing, Shishu park, trade fair or other places with my husband and children.
2.6 yes, women of this colony, sometimes we meet at Hena Apas (a women of that colony)
house
2.7 Yes Women association member money saving -100 tk per week. Women from entire
tejgaon can join that group.
2.9. place of tablik is only place where women can go alone without fear and market is full
of bad men and their touch is bad for that reason female number is less
3.1. Dhaka is my husband's working place, the children’s schools, and it used to be my
working place too, so I have to live here. Now I love this place.
3.2. for my husband's work, here there are better facilities and thus working is possible.in
my village women are not working, that is still unusual but in Dhaka it is common.
Though, in Dhaka there is lots of crime, I hate it.
3.4. no difference, language is different but not so tough like noakhali and sylhet. I worked
in garment so I have no problem to mix up with people.
4.1 House / sometimes I go to tablik nearby.
4.2 we stay in Dhaka, I like cooking bread and other food during sob-e–barat, good food
during Eid, and as I have a very good relation with my neighbours, we invite each
other.
4.3 I have not enough time to go there, but my children go with their father because now I
prefer religion to the material world. If I go out side, I know some men will touch
me so I try to stay at home.
4.4 Tablik and dawat (invitation for religious talk) is my leisure time work. With other
women
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4.5. Dhanmondi 32, the house of shekh mujib seems to me an important place in Dhaka
city
4.6. TV, Paper, we never talk about these matter
4.8. The people do crime
14-12-2006, Mohammadpur Town Hall/ / Azam Road
1.1 Md. JAMAL
1.2 male
1.3 I'm married, with 3 children
1.4 50-60
1.5 primary
1.6 Islam
1.7 Business of old furniture. Once I used to have a business of clothes but now I changed
for more profit.
1.8 Mohammadpur
1.9 BASBARI - Mohammadpur
1.10 Rented house -4000
1.10a Nurjahan Road
1.11 yes, it is a rather silent area, which I find very good, here near there is a market of old
furniture and I have a shop there so it’s a good place for my business. Here have no
crime so its good.
1.12 10-15 000
1.13 Munshigonj, my mother is still alive and I go there once or twice in a year. Once it
was a good place to live but now people of other cities contaminated it
1.14 15 +
2.1We usually buy from hawkers, or from Krishi market, new market, whereby in krishi
market price is lower than in new market. Other problem is the distance!!
2.2 my business is something different than others because I have to contact with a lot of
people for buying old furniture, when I get call from a family or office from any lo
cation I go there to buy - so I am a frequent visitor of entire Dhaka.
2.3 bus / rickshaw
2.4 I generally go to Kacha bazaar daily, in the morning, and then I regularly go outside in
search of old furniture. Otherwise I stay at my shop
2.5 there is no holiday for us, nor hortal nor aboroadh is a problem here. But if someone in
our businessmen community dies, then work stops and I sleep a lot.
2.6 no, businessmen are my only friend because most of my time I spend with them
2.9 girls are less in number, female member of my family frequently go outside there is no
restriction over them.
3.1. Dhaka is good. you can make a knowledge of whole BD from here. In my village I
never thought about a business of old furniture, here income is good
3.2. one of my relatives invite me to join this business that’s why I am here
3.4. in my business community there have both migrant and inhabitant of Dhaka – but we
are same, some difference related to family level but not business level/
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4.2 We stay in Dhaka, I visit relatives houses nearby. We never go far, it seems to me a dif
ficult work to go far.
4.3. no, I was never attracted to go there. Bombing is common so I feel afraid
4.5. nothing like whole BD, I like the graveyard of AZIMPUR, everything is cool and
silent.
4.7 TV, newspaper, sometimes people in my market make debate and quarrel, I know most
of the things
4.8. Caretaker govt
20-12-2006, Titumir college mohakhali
1.1 Kousik Ahammed
1.2. male
1.3. Unmarried
1.4. 24 years age
1.5. undergraduate – Management
1.6. islam
1.7. Student
1.8. Mahakhali
1.9. East Nakhalpara
1.10 Own house
1.11 Yes, I was born here and here I get all the elements of life here, I feel comfortable
here, playground is most important
1.12. my monthly income was 3000 but now I have no tution. my father earns 10-12 thou
sands
1.14. last 35 years
2.1 dress from Pawl well super market , near palton, Basundhara garden city, Gulshan mar
ket—for CDs, books
2.2. College is a place where I go everyday for my study. Some times / monthly we go out
side of my neighborhood for recreation. During rainy season we go to Khilkhet for vis
it.
2.3. Bus / Riskshaw
2.4. Morning 10-2 pm college, when I have no class go to the nearby tea stall or field
along with my friends, I talk with others and take tea.
2.5 sleep more than the usual day, go for prayer and go out with my friends.
2.6 yes, all of them are students, some from other institution or other neighborhood; yes,
sometimes in play-ground, we play badminton together
2.9 Dhanmondi women complex is the place of women, male are more than women / be
cause they did not get permission from parents, early marriage is a cause of low
number in the street or other places.
3.1. Education and lifestyle, sports are important things for me to like to Dhaka city
3.4 no difference, here people are machines, so no time to look so small difference.
4.1. mosque / home
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4.1.a I have never been to other religious place because I am not so interested
4.2. Dhaka, whole night I spend on roof top or other friend’s house, we never spend time
on street during Eid like other people, sometimes I go to enjoy concert before or af
ter Eid, some times go to Fantasy kingdom
4.3. usually go to shahid minar or sometimes for musical program in dhanmondi
4.4 .usually I spend my leisure time with my friends, sometimes with beloved – at college
or at home. Sometimes we go to Dhanmondi, Dhaka university or Savar but when I
go with girlfriend, we must be back before evening. Parents of my girlfriend give
her permission only for day-time, after sunset she has to be at home. Dhanmondi
lake or sometimes SAVAR
4.5. Ashulia, because of water and touch of village
4.6. Newspaper, TV, sometimes from friend-circle, we debate on contemporary issues
4.7. yes, with big brothers (political leader), friends, we go to Paltan but never I join to
procession in my college campus
4.8. power on Caretaker Govt.
19-12-2006, Mohammadpur – New Kacha Bazar
1.1 Masud rana
1.2 male
1.3 unmarried
1.4. 45
1.5 Higher secondary
1.6 Islam
1.7 shopkeeper/ Business
1.8Kacha bazar
1.9 Shekeher tek / temporary basis
1.10 rented house 6000
1.11 yes, not so good, not so bad. Good for business, bad because of dirt
1.12 20-50,000
1.13 before Dhaka I lived five years in Saudi Arabia, that is a cleaner place
1.14 last 2 years alone
2.1 nearby shops
2.2 weekly – for buying goods for my shops. generally I go to shambazaar (near
sadarghat), sometimes I go to Moulavibazar
2.3 Rickshaw or bus, but I prefer rickshaw
2.4 From morning to midnight I stay in my shop – it is my place, I make adda, have recre
ation and gossiping here – I have everything in the shop, sometimes within the
market, but I never go so far.
2.5 I have no week end
2.6. once I have friends other than businessmen but I haven’t now.
2.7. no, I was involved in politics few years ago but I have no connection
2.9 Garment workers are high but others are less in number
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3.1. yes, for good business there are limited alternative, traffic jam is only problem I face
when I move outside, nothing more
3.2. my father had import –export business. When I returned from Saudi Arabia, I took
over that business, I failed then I start this new shop. I am passing my day just like
this, I have to do good business.
3.4. A lot of difference, they are mostly illiterate know only money
4.1. yes / mosque but not frequent
4.2 I always spend my eid in Chandpur with my family. Chandpur is good for living but
Dhaka is good for establishment.
4.3 I have not enough time to go there
4.4. I had a girls friend, I visited botanical garden and dhanmondi lake with her, but now I
have no communication with that girl and I usually go home after work.
4.5.Cantonment
4.6. TV, from my friends, sometimes in this market we talk together when we have less
work.
5 th
December , Old Dhaka
1.1 Advocate Nasima Akhter
1.2 female
1.3 married; 1 son and 1 daughter
1.4 38 years
1.5 Masters
1.6Islam
1.7 lawyer
1.8 temporary
1.9 rented house, 4500 tk
1.10 yes, Dhanmondi, Adabor, Shamoli, Mohammadpur
1.11 I changed my place several time for my job. Whenever I changed my job, I shifted
my living place because I need and like to live near my office. Now I live in old
town, Sadarghat (Royshaheb Bazar), near my court. It’s a place of extreme jam and
noise but I like this place because of my husband and child’s contact is easier here.
1.12 20,000
1.13 yes - Narayongonj and Khulna. Narayangonj for my work (NGO) and khulna is my
place of birth. Khulna is a divisional city but still it’s slow and calm, less traffic.
1.14 last 13 years
2.1 I have no maid servant and my husband is blind, so I never go faraway. I buy cloths
from Ramna, Sadarghat, sometimes from Gausia, fish, vegetable or other food
items from Royshaheb Bazar.
2.2 near my house is the court where I practice.
2.3 rickshaw or on foot.
2.4 every morning I go out side before awakening of my children, I prepare food for them
and go to my chamber near court. Then chamber and court is my full work. I go
once a week for shopping. sometimes I go to my children’s school.
2.5 I have no weekend, during Friday I talk with my clients and take note. I work a lot for
my family particularly on holiday.
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2.6 no friend, I forget every friend of student life, now husband is only friend and clients
are all. Colleagues are friend now
2.7 women lawyer association, the inst. Of democratic right, sometimes I work as volun
teer lawyer.
2.9 no place for women. Women are less, due to transportation problem, security, family
constrictions.
3.1. yes, initially I felt disturbed but now I got habituated because of practice of law.
3.2 for work. I knew that Dhaka is a good practice place for lawyer. my personal life is
nothing now but once I have a friend circle, everything, joy, I have a good relation
with many people, relatives now nothing like khulna.
3.4. there must be difference. but I can’t explain it's something internal. Inhabitants of Dha
ka waste money and mostly illiterate. Sometimes they are idle.
4.1 if I wish, I pray anywhere - mostly in my room.
4.1.a my husband is Hindu and we have religious freedom. we enjoy both.
4.2. We stay in Dhaka, but it is nothing special to me if not some extra free time for relax
ing, new clothes and good food. Some relatives come to visit us, that’s all.
4.3. yes, my children’s school
4.4. if I go outside my husband and children come mostly with me, as, usually, it is after 7
pm. Everyday I have 2-3 hour of relax, which I spend with my children. Each 2-3
months I go outside of Old Dhaka with my husband and children – for shopping
and leisure.
4.5. there is no place in Dhaka which can represent the whole BD.
4.6. there is no particular place, sometimes I get information from my colleagues
sometimes from BBC or other media.
4.7 .during student life I was active politician but now I forget everything and every con
nection with people. but I am working as a human right lawyer and I know different
aspects
4.8. in Shekh family and zia family
Dhanmondi, Alliance Francaise , 2.12.06
1.1. Michael Rio
1.2. Male
1.3. Unmarried
1.4 30-40
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Christian (converted from Islam in Ireland)
1.7. IELTS-Teacher (work in Dhanmondi)
1.9. Malibag, permanent address
1.10 Rented flat, I pay 3,000Tk a month (it’s a room with WC)
1.10.a In Mohammadpur
1.11. I don’t like it at all actually: too much traffic, people are compelling each other in
jam, rude, not decent. There is a lot of cheating. But I have no alternatives than to live
here because any other neighbourhood would be too expensive.
1.12. D 10-20,000
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1.13. I was born in Chittagong, due to my father’s job we moved a lot in my childhood. I
spent the last years before coming back to Bangladesh and moving to Dhaka in Leeds,
London, Blackborn and Dublin.
1.14.Now I have lived in Dhaka for 15 years.
2.1 FOOD: I don’t need to buy much, I only eat in restaurants because I can’t cook.
CLOTHES: I feel sick in the crowd, so I don’t like shopping. FOOD: mediocre shop
ping centres like the one in Malibag, or in Topkana Road, which are also the crowded
ones. In Dhanmondi they are too expensive. OTHERS: Purana Paltan for books, there
are good old bookshops there, and Dhanmondi, Mirpur Road, for books and music.
2.2. I go everyday to Dhanmondi for work, and I also go to Old Dhaka once a month to see
the Bohushaa Park, it’s nice, I like it.
2.3. BY bus or rickshaw
2.4. Get up at 7, tea and breakfast, then I go out at 9. If I have courses at 10, I have to go to
work. Otherwise they are in the afternoon and I have free time to hang around or see
people I know. In the evening I generally surf in internet-cafés, don’t like to go to the
cinema here because they are too crowded.
2.5.I plan what to do in advance, like going to Old Dhaka or to Jodpur, Comilla for one-
day trips...
2.6 I am choosy about friends, but I have lots of so-called friends. I still have some child
hood friends. I like to talk with different people, the poor often give me the impres
sion to be happier than us. Rickshaw-wallahs for example, have many more de
lights and joy of life although they are poor.
2.9 Women segregation is one of Bangladesh’s main problems. In this cultural area society
has always been dominated by men, women were streamed out, my mother wasn’t
allowed to go to school after the 5th class. Women don’t have any place basically.
Where could they go? A minority joins in women associations, but it is just a
minority. It’s getting better now, though.
3.1. I don’t like much living here, but there are not many alternatives. I tried to move to an
other city, but there were no job opportunities for me there. Still I like to notice some of
the particularities of the Dhakayts, especially the “kuttis”. They live especially in Old
Dhaka, like music and party, films and fun. They live within their own community, get
married in their community. Nowadays they are actually outsiders.
3.2. WHY I MOVED TO DHAKA? ..just for job. Still now I don’t understand this city’s
lack of decency, people are so rude and aggressive, non-polite. When you hurt with
someone on the street nobody says sorry!
3.4. There is a difference. The real Dhakayas are closed in their community, they have their
own culture. The settlers mix things from the village and the city, from the kuttis,
the other migrants’ and their own culture. But the Dhakayas feel more related to
Dhaka than the others.
4.1. I haven’t been in a church for long time, but I used to go to Kakrail Church
4.1.a Every place could be sacred, if people would respect them. Parks, libraries...
4.2. I stay in Dhaka, meet people, friends and family. These traditions are decreasing
nowadays, we used to visit each other in those days, but this is disappearing.
4.3. Yes, on Victory Day I enjoy the concerts and cultural programme at Dhaka Stadium,
and I also like Bangla New Year, there are some melas at Shahbagh, I go there. All
city is lively that day.
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4.4. Evening, after work I have free-time. Then I like to go to Badusha Park, to Sadargath..
later at night I watch TV, listen to radio or read newspapers. If I am home in the
morning I just clean the room.
4.5. National Memorial in Savar. Other places are just colonial heritage, whereas that is
Bangladeshi. And I also think of Shapla Chottor (Motijheel, Lotus-statue square).
4.6. I’m not much interested, I abhor mainstream politics, I don’t know.
4.8. Liberation museum. I have been there for the first time one month ago.
Badda
1.1.Nahidul Islam Mamun
1.2. m
1.3. single
1.4. 18
1.5 .secondary
1.6. islam
1.7. business (Garment item)
1.8. whole Bangladesh
1.9. north Badda
1.10 rented house with parents -3000 tk
1.10a middle Badda
1.11 we get all the facility provided by city corporation, I am living here for a long time
and important thing is that its altogether good for all of my family members
1.12 3000 and including my family -30000
1.14 20 years
2.1 Holland centre – badda, Estace
2.2 Daily – garments. weekly – outside Dhaka or gulshan , rampura to meet my friends.
2.3 rickshaw or local bus
2.4 Work for some time, I have no time limit for work, I contact with garment and whole
seller, play cricket on the street, Adda with friend
2.5 move all around Badda
2.6 student, labor, garment workers - all are my friends, most of them are from my neigh
bourhood
2.9 female are more in number on street or market .
3.1 I am living here for long time, I know business and other things, if I go outside I can't
survive, so I am trying to ensure better position here.
3.4. most of the inhabitant have at least a house (good or bad).
4.1. only Friday prayer
4.2. Eid – go to the market for buying cow, meet my girl friend make date with her.
4.3. ramna with girlfriend, I have a lot of girlfriends but I spend most of my time with
someone special
4.4. I spend most of my leisure time with my girl friend on Dhanmondi Lake, nandon, Fan
tasy Kingdom, sher- e- bangla nagar, Zia Uddyan, or outside Dhaka without per
mission of my or her family, because her father is very much cruel on me.
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4.5. Rabindro Sarober
4.6. tv news, party office or friends
4.7. I have to go to procession because I am very much involved with BNP. It is generally
in palton, with my friends
4.8. belongs to minister
20-12-2006 Baulbag / Tejgaon
1.1 Dr. Rokshana Akhter
1.2 female
1.3 unmarried
1.4 23 years
1.5 higher secondary + diploma in medical (DMF)
1.6 Islam
1.7 paramedical doctor
1.8 Shyamoly (BAMONEH - NGO)
1.9 Mogbazar/ Noia tola
1.10 flat – monthly rent -7000 with my parents
1.11 yes, mogbazar is a good place because it is close to my office and my parents live
there.
1.12 6000 is my own and my family earns 30000tk
1.13 Rajshahi for work in Grameen Kallan / Kustia for last 19 years
1.14 last 1 year
2.1 mouchak / new market / gaucia
2.2 daily, for work I have to go to office or some other places like tejkuni para and others
2.3 Bus + rickshaw
2.4 8 am to 4 pm is my office, I do my own work, sometime some family calls me person
ally when a baby is born or sick, then I go there.
2.5 I do all of my family and personal work in holiday
2.6 I have friends both boy and girl but all of them are same age group, some are educa-
tional friend and some are professional friend
2.7 NGO
2.9 male are more in number. If I go outside situation change my mentality.
3.1. yes, it was my dream to come to Dhaka for better service and I want to do something
fro the health of deprived children.
3.2. for improvement of my carrier and here have chance to do better.
3.4. the people born in Dhaka dislike to share the things and feelings with others, but mi
grants are always ready to share things .
4.1.a I have a very good friendship with some Hindus, I usually visit their house.
4.2. We spend Eid in Kushtia, I always take new dress during eid, visit most of my rela
tives house, visit lalon shah's shrine. go to hear Lalon song and adda.
4.3. shahid minar and beside parliament.
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4.4. women society/coffee house ((Baily road), friends
4.5. there is no place like the actual Bangladesh but as a city Basundhara garden city is
nice
4.6 TV, paper, home
4.7. oral polio vaccine procession
Dhanmondi Lake , 11.06
1.1 Subrata
1.2 Male
1.3. Unmarried
1.4. 20-30
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Hindu
1.7. Student (finishing my degree)
1.8 I study in Tongi, at National University
1.9. Islamic Neighbourhood, Old Dhaka/Tikatoli (temporary, permanent in Gazimpur)
1.10 Rented flat
1.11. I like it because I was born there and have friends here, I know many people there.
1.12. D (10-20,000Tk) I myself earn 3,000Tk a month as a private tutor
2.1 FOOD: I love shopping – for pujas and other festivities in particular! I go to New Mar
ket, which is an ideal gathering place due to its centrality, fame and because it is old
and beloved in the heart of people. Women prefer more fashionable places, where
things are more expensive. CLOTHES: New Market OTHERS: New Market (hand
crafts...)
2.3. By bus (less than 2 hours!)
2.4. Now that we have university holiday wake up at 11, I go outside and hang around,
then I join my family for lunch. Between 3 and 9.30pm I give private lessons to young
er students. Afterwards I am free. After dinner I go out, meet the neighbours and visit
some relatives in their homes.
2.5. I meet friends at a cinema hall or market place, otherwise I stay alone and take time
for myself, to think things about which I couldn’t think during the week. Sometimes I
go out with some girlfriends.
2.6 I have 4 good friends, 3 of which are childhood friends who live in my neighbourhood.
Two are Muslims, 1 is Hindu. Then I have many friends at university, and I also
have friends among my cousins and in the village where my father is from. In this
whole group of close and less close friends I also have a couple of girlfriends whom
I don’t see much, but who call and write sms to me very often. Religion is not im
portant, I trust people and I like to speak with lots of different persons. I’m curious.
Most of my friends are students. Mentality and a similar standard of life are import
ant, too. For girls.. my girlfriend should be educated, well-behaving.
3.1. I was born in Dhaka, I’m second generation. My father comes from Gazimpur, my
mother from Dhaka. It is my homeland, although it is difficult to live here because we
are a minority in the country. I feel at home, but it is the home of others’.
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3.3. people of Dhaka have less time to spend with others, they are also more hypocrite. No
city is perfect, we should try to make something to improve our city but it is our
lifestyle. People in the villages, and thus the settlers when they move here, are more
simple.
4.1. not in special times or occasions, if friends are sick, sad or have some problems. But I
can pray anytime and in any place, I don’t have to go to the temple.
4.1.a For festivities, in the temple. Purity is in everybody if his or her mind is pure. Even
this awful place is holy if I look at it with a good perspective and mind.
4.2. I stay in Dhaka and go to Siddeswari Temple, also my friends go there, it’s a meeting
place, a place of the heart for us. We spend the whole night there, also with my
family, making music and gossiping, sometimes dancing.
4.3. Only Language Day, when I was a child. Nowadays I celebrate New Year’s Eve, we
wear a new dress, sing romantic songs. I also join Bangla New Year, first I go to the
temple in the morning, then visit some relatives, then I can meet friends at home or
Dhanmondi Lake.
4.4. Dhanmondi Lake, Mirpur and Kollampur at some friends’, shopping malls where I go
with girls. New Market is a gathering place, it’s too crowded for them, so they don’t
like to go there. Actually I would go more often to the University area, but it
should be freed from politics, they shouldn’t misuse it organising political harass
ment. People don’t like it, they are anyway in a majority outsiders to politics... To
meet a girl I generally go to Dhanmondi Lake, I like to go there because it is near
and I can go there by rickshaw. I stay in places near to my home, but I also go to the
Botanical Garden, to University and TSC. Their parents don’t know about their
meetings with me.
4.5. I don’t know. Dhaka is the centre of business, but it is not Bangladesh.
4.6. I don’t like to discuss about politics. I read the newspapers, but it is risky to speak
about politics in public because people ignore the principles of democracy and viol
ence is spread out.
4.8. Parliament, Secretary Building, BNP-/AL-head office. I don’t care about these places .
26-12-06 , West Rampura
1.1. Ms sumi
1.2 .fm
1.3 married – 1
1.4. 21
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. islam
1.7. I work in a beauty parlour
1.8. Shantinagar
1.9 I live in Malibug chowdhury para
1.10 Rented house 7000
1.10a west rampura ulan road
1.11 yes, this is a good residential area, near the main road, markets are nearer, schools are
near, I like this place.
1.12 I earn 5,000 my husbands earn a lot, I am working for my interest, I take permission
from my husband, that’s ok.
1.14 birth place
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2.1 Rampura, for clothes new market, mouchak, malibug - by bus or cab, sometimes with
neighbors or alone.
2.2 three days in a week I go to beauty parlour, I want to learn a lot about small craft busi
ness and work
2.3 on foot or rickshaw
2.4 kacha bazaar – early morning, school of my children, then parlour for 6 hours, then
come back for household work.
2.5 Friday is my busiest day because my husband stays at home
2.6 I have good girl friend she works in garments
2.7 political party
2.9 most of the male are bad. male are in dominating position and less in number
3.1. yes, I feel bored when I fall in serious traffic jam, but overall it’s a good place.
3.4. difference due to time, if you stay here long time you can understand all the system
very well
4.1.a I go to tablik every Monday and Tuesday
4.2. Dhaka, I cook good food, I have no place to go alone, sometimes I go outside Dhaka
with my husband, like Barishal.
4.3. Ramna park, with husband or friends
4.4. Either I walk in the nearby streets with children or other women, or I watch hindi seri
al films
4.5. Ramna park
4.6. TV, Husband
4.7. I support awami league, I join the processions from my area to palton or muktanongon
4.8. Iazuddin
Rampura
1.1 Shilpi Talukder
1.2 f
1.3. married 2 daughter
1.4. 28 years
1.5 primary
1.6 islam
1.7. housewife
1.9. East Rampura
1.10 Rented house -6000
1.10A Shahadatpur -7-8 years
1.11 Shadatpur is good because I spend the sweetest time of my life there, in that time I
had a lot of friend and nothing was restricted, now I spend most of my time at Ba
nasree or East Rampura. East Rampura is far better than Banasree because Banas
ree is only for rich people, there is a certain living standard and you must maintain
it, whereas East Rampura is mixed poor, middle class and rich people are living
here - so there are shopping mall as well as small grocery shops.
1.12 20,000 and including my husband's income it almost 30,000
1.13 Shariatpur
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1.14 20 years
2.1 Kacha bazaar – Rampura , Dress – Gausia , Chadni chalk market
2.2 I have a beauty parlor, I have a partnership with someone. Every day I go there – some
times I work also there
2.3 mirpur – by bus, CNG otherwise by rickshaw
2.4. Bringing my daughters to school is my first work, then I go to the Bazar, I cook, and at
1 I usually go to the beauty parlour – return at 10 pm.
2.5. whole Friday I spend for my business – beauty care.
2.6. yes, but I am frequently disturbed by my friends, they do a lot of harm. I have a lot of
male friends. I meet them their office or home, now with mobile is ok
2.9 women are more but there are not a single place where women are safe .
3.1 I like Dhaka, after my parents’ death I felt alone and became dependent on my hus
band but he was addicted to alcohol; he left me and then I got a second husband, he
is also not good in that sense he is also addict – both, other women and drug. vil
lage seems to me good but I have no support over there so I think that’s not so good
for me, working women are a bad thing in village, people will blame you as a bad
girl.
3.2 my family was poor, my demand was never fulfilled by my parents, so I decided to
come to Dhaka. here in Banasree most disadvantageous thing is the young boys – if
you take make–up they disturb you and treat u as a prostitute, I was robbed here.
here there are businesses like human bodies, prostitution – I can’t understand that
3.4. inhabitants are modest and migrants are aggressive.
4.1.not much
4.1.a I know some hindu people but I dislike most of their activities
4.2 I visit my cousins and father in law during eid and most of time spend for my daughters
in Dhaka.
4.3. no, I think about my parlour and business
4.4. with my daughters, at home or nearby place
4.5. I don’t know
4.6. TV news
4.7. I usually join procession for vote, election campaign, hartal and others so many – pal
ton, shahbug, press club, in my neighborhood.
4.8. belong to political leaders, they order and common people are doing bad works
Shyamoli
1.1 Mohammad touhid un nobi
1.2 male
1.3 single
1.4 21 years
1.5 under graduate (Eng.) Stamford university (private university)
1.6 islam
1.7 Student
1.8 Siddeshory
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1.9 Kallanpur / temporary
1.10 rented house with my parents and 8000/month
1.10a yes Shyamoli
1.11 yes, I like shyamoli more than kallanpur, kallanpur is more congested, still now I like
shyamoly and frequently I visit this place. I like shyamoly for security and friend
circle and a I have a long experience to live here.
1.12 I earn 1500 by my own but I don’t know the exact figure of my family’s income .
1.13 Chittagong
1.14 20 years
2.1 food – I don’t know, always from home, only sometimes from university canteen. for
dress I like most of the shopping malls near mirpur road. I like to visit Basundhara
but not to buy something cause price is so high.
2.2 yes, shiddeshori (for study), daily, shyamoli (for study)
2.3 on foot / by bus, CNG - sometimes when friends are with me or in case of big shop
ping.
2.4 university – friends – play, that’s all. adda mostly during evening, adda place is every
where
2.5 adda here and there. spend most of my time with friends.
2.6 yes, shyamoli, Old Dhaka, student (most of my school friend)
2.9 women are less in number because of their smaller self-confidence, they are less ad-
vanced that’s their own problem.
3.1. yes, all of my friends, my study, everything is here, I like to live here. Chittagong has a
different taste than Dhaka. I have lived in Chittagong and Dhaka, in Dhaka I find
something which is absent in cht.
3.4. migrants fall in trouble to live with the original people of Dhaka. It’s a inner differ
ence, in mind. Migrants are jolly.
4.1. mosque / shyamoly on friday.
4.2. Dhaka. I visit friends and relatives’ houses, touch their feet (cultural tradition, sign of
respect), get money from them as Eid-gift, there is good food, we watch TV-shows
as usual.
4.3. some times / with my friends
4.4. night is my leisure / I pass it with my family. Talk with my girlfriend over phone (due
to her family restriction I can’t meet her face to face). or I go to shopping mall. I
have a girlfriend, usually I meet her in any shopping mall where she can come.
4.5. Old town
4.6. Campus / anti corruption news (* newspaper)
4.8. office of two major party
26-12-2006, West Rampura
1.1. Tanvir Ahmed
1.2 m
1.3. Islam
1.4. 10 years
1.5. primary
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1.6. islam
1.7. student
1.9. 301 west rampura
1.10 rented house, my father know the rent.
1.10a Polashbug Rampura
1.11 It's very good place, with greenery, play ground and I have a lot of friends here
1.13 laksham, comilla
1.14 10 years
2.1 we always make cloths from tailor, we do not wear ready-made garments; my father
and mother choose the clothes to buy and I and my sister go to the tailor for mea
surements.
2.2 no, my school and house belong to same building. My mother works at land grammar
school in West Rampura, my father is the head master of my school.
2.4 Breakfast / make homeworks / 10 -3 is my school / coaching / play
2.5 Friday my drawing teacher comes at my home / then go to the mosque with my father /
I watch tv / read more at night
2.6 I have so many friends, I meet them at mosque, school, or playground
3.1 I forget laksham, Dhaka is nice have sishu park, so many toys, rides, wonderland, fan
tasy kingdom
4.1. I regularly go to the mosque
4.2. we spend eid vacation in our village comilla, my village has ponds and paddy fields,
but Dhaka has fantasy kingdom
4.3. I went to Shahid Minar with my father and Ramna with my mother, I like to walk in
the paddy field in village and Shishu Park; once my uncle lived with us, I visit a lot
of place with him.
4.5. Fantasy Kingdom / wonderland is the most beautiful place to me.
19-12-06, Mohammadpur / Tajmahal road
1.1 Tanima
1.2 female
1.3 single
1.4 17 years
1.5 higher secondary
1.6 Islam
1.7 student
1.8 Dhanmondi
1.9 Mohammadia housing society / mohammadpur, my family lives here permanently for
long time
1.10 own house
1.11 yes, I am living here from my childhood, most of my friends live here, that’s the main
reason for me to like this neighborhood.
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1.12 I have no income
1.14 20 years
1.13 no
2.1 usually I buy my dresses from Eastern plaza, I like Hallmark for gifts and for food – we
go to Huq traders
2.2 Daily I go to Dhanmondi (City college) for my study
2.3 Megacity bus
2.4 morning – bus –college(morning -noon) – home (late noon)– coaching center (after
noon)– home.
2.5 I sleep more during holiday, sometimes I have to study for exam preparation, other
times I go out side of my area, usually to the nearby shopping mall.
2.6. all are students, some from other institution but all are higher secondary level.
2.7 I am a member world literature society – it has a mobile library. sometimes I took part
in book reading competition.
2.9 beauty parlour / girls school / college. I never go out side alone at night; I have a wish
to go outside alone during the day but I can't because of family and neighbours, I
think that’s true, women are oppressed by male
3.1. yes, village is good for a short visit, but I like to live in Dhaka. I wouldn't like to
change to another neighbourhood or city. I am living in this place permanently – I
can’t imagine that: I can't imagine a day without my friends.
3.2. with my father, I have to ask my father I think that is for job and our study.
4.1. yes in home, not so frequent
4.1.a I have no interest about other religion
4.2. I always enjoy religious festival with my family, we go to parliament or Dhanmondi
lake with my sister's husband or sometimes with my friends.
4.3.I enjoy the TV programme, panta – ilis (during 1st day of Boishakh). I went to Ramna
only once or twice physically, but I always wear new dresses – saloar-kamiz. I nev
er wear shari but I think that will be interesting in the next years.
4.4. My leisure time usually is after college and before coaching, I go for sleep and some
time I talk with my friend over phone. Coaching is a place where I meet my friends.
If my family allows me to go out side – well I would like to go to Fantasy King
dom. But permission is rare. I have a wish to go outside alone but I can't
4.5. Uttara sector no 6 is a place which is calm similar to outside Dhaka. From bus or train
when I look through the window – I think that’s the real Bangladesh – so green ,
but in Dhaka there have not a single place which is cute that much.
4.6. no, I dislike politics
4.7. no, never procession, but take part in cultural program
4.8. I don’t know
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Wari, 7.11.2006
1.1. Rubayat Ahmed (Tumpa)
1.2. Female
1.3. married
1.4. 20-30
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Muslim
1.7. Teacher in a private school
1.8 Gulshan
1.9. Mag Bazaar, temporary address. At present we are living with my in-laws and my 2
brothers in law as a temporary solution while we wait for a new apartment which is be
ing developed in Wari, but we decided that they are going to move back to Wari and we
are going to stay here.
1.10 Rented flat, 15,000Tk a month
1.10a Wari / Shiddeswari (family’s home)
1.11. I like my neighbours and the fact that it is not too crowded because the road is so nar
row that traffic is rare.
1.12. E (20-50,000Tk)
1.13.I lived in Chittagong and Cox’s Bazaar for my father’s job
1.14. I was born in Dhaka, spent my childhood in Shiddeswari and moved then to Mag
Bazaar where my in laws live.
2.1 FOOD: Bazaar or shopping malls on my way back home from school, CLOTHES:
shopping malls, all over Dhaka – my husband often comes with me, OTHERS: all over
Dhaka, depending on the way out of work
2.3. BY CAR with my husband who also works in Gulshan. The car picks me up in the
evening
2.4. I wake up at 6.30am, pray and prepare for school, then I make breakfast for me and
my husband. I work at school till 4pm, sometimes I give private lessons afterward, and
then I go home. Before dinner I sometimes visit my relatives, sometimes I do some
shopping. Later I visit my mum or I go out for dinner with my husband.
2.5. We always go out on Thursday and Friday evening. We go to restaurants or hang
around with friends, at home or outside, by car.
2.6 I don’t make friends with my colleagues because we anyway see each other everyday!
My friends are childhood friends, as well as my husband’s friends. We have the
same standard of life, it is necessary to be friends.
2.9 There are no spaces for women, we feel unsafe on the street, men don’t have respect in
their minds – I can see that in their looks, how they stare at women. We do make
girls-days among friends, but we don’t have any place to go but our homes. We
would sometimes need some.
3.1. Yes, I was brought up here, although if I had the chance, I would prefer to live abroad,
in Canada where we have some relatives, or Australia. It was my parents who moved to
Dhaka after the Liberation War. Dhaka is metropolitan, you get everything here, but it
is polluted, there is no greenery, and continuos jam. Being a Dhakaya? It means a fast
life and no free-time.
3.4. There are cultural differences which you can state observing the differences in living,
food, dressing and the way of keeping the house.
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4.1. At home – there are only 2 or 3 mosques with a room for women in Dhaka, so we pray
from home
4.2. We stay in Dhaka as most part of our family is here. Generally we go to eldest relat
ives and have lunch there, and then we visit others
4.3. Not really because the political and social situation make it not safe to. But I always
join Bangla New Year, I go in the streets during the day!
4.4. We don’t live by ourselves so we can’t invite people to our place, so we rather go to
their homes or we roam around by car, in the night. We like driving along the empty
streets, listening to loud music and telling each other things which happened to us
during the day. Sometimes we bring some friends with us. Otherwise there is not
much recreation, other than some Gulshan restaurants to go to for dinner. We need
theatres, coffee shops (this is starting now), amusement parks in the centre of the
city. Parks are unsafe, often they are squatted or encroached and they are not prop
erly lightened, which makes them dangerous or just insecure for people to go
through when it’s dark. If we have long vacation, we like to go out of Dhaka, to
Cox’s Bazaar, but we sometimes also go abroad (Malaysia, India..). For New Years
Eve we are going to celebrate with our friends in the Sundarbans.
4.5. I don’t know, maybe the Liberation Memorial in Savar, or also the Parliament...
4.6. I am not interested in politics, I speak with my husband and other relatives, watch TV
4.8. Politics is not handled carefully in Bangladesh, political power is misused – so, I
would say the parliament, but not inside it. We would go for a walk there once in a
while.
19-12-2006, Mohammadpur, Krishimarket. New kacha bazar
1.1A K M Emdadul Huq
1.2 male
1.3 yes, 6 in number
1.4 67 years
1.5 post graduation
1.6 islam
1.7 Retired Dhaka university official (General Administration)
1.9 Mohammadpur Tikkapara science 1974/ permanent
1.10a yes Raer bazar
1.11 Mohammadpur is a good residential area, transport is the prime factor of betterment, it
is near parliament so you can consider it as the core of this city . it is better than
Raja bazaar where I live earlier. 40 years ago there is no mohammadpur , during
liberation war , it starts and afterwards it grows faster.
1.12 20-25 000tk
1.13 Shariatpur, greater comilla
1.14 1966
2.1. mohammadpur, other family members go outside but I like nearby market bazaar, I
feel lazy and physically disturbed.
2.2 daily, I go out side, now I join in another job that is part time basis
2.3 Rickshaw - DR suggested me to walk for my betterment I am lazy.
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2.4 my part-time job is during afternoon, the news paper is my morning friend, I dislike to
come to market but my wife pressurizes me to come, I have a assistant and usually
he comes with me. I come to market after 2-3 days, sometimes I watch TV.
2.5 Week end: preparation for prayer and go to mosque, visit some of my friends and rela
tives house.
2.6 yes, relatives of mine and my wife's
2.7 once I was a member in dhaka university, but now not any more
2.9 women are on the way of better education, service and advancement. My wife never
comes to market, I will be be aged but it's our religious culture: I have to do the out
side work
3.1. I spend a lot of time here , my working place was Dhaka university, I have a lot of
friend here, I like dhaka city. I must have to be continuing my rest of the life here
because of family. Still I miss my village, greenery, very delicious and pure food,
milk, and vegetables …
3.2. I came here for education. village people was simple now every where is corruption.
3.4. There is a cultural difference but that’s not a problem to mix with them .
4.1. Tikka para mosque
4.1a I respect all the religion
4.2. Dhaka, usual / go for prayer, friends come to my place and juniors enjoy more.
4.4. I like to spend my leisure with my family in home
4.6 News paper, TV
4.7 no / I am not so interested
New Market, 9.9.2007
1.1. Name Romana Akter
1.2 female
1.3. Study in Eden college, Azimpur
1.4. Age : 10-20
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. Profession student at Eden college (zoology)
1.8. Married/Unmarried – Children (age)? Unmarried
1.9. Mirpur 1 per manently
1.10. It's my father's home
1.10.a. Have you already lived in other neighbourhoods in Dhaka? No, I have lived in this
home since my birth
1.11. I have brought up there, so I know everybody, I have childhood friends.
1.12. 20-50,000
1.14. I have lived here since my first life years, my parents moved to Dhaka for their stud
ies. My father comes from Chandpur and I was born there.
2.1. My father and mum do for us! I go to New Market, I like to walk over there whenever
I have a little bit of time, even if I don't need anything. New Market and Rifle
Square, Gauzia Market..
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2.2. Everyday to Eden College, in the week-ends to Old Dhaka, Ashan Masid, National
Museum, to TSC in Dhaka University Campus.
2.3. I move by bus, usually with my sister although my mum and dad also allow me to go
out alone. This also regards the visits to friends in the week-ends.
2.4. I wake up at 6-6.30 am, I get a shower and have breakfast, then take the bus to the col
lege. The classes start at 8 and end at 3 – 4.30, depending on the day's schedule.
After school, I go home and after a shower I go to my tuition, which is in my neigh
bourhood. I come back home at 7.30, have another shower, then we take dinner and
I study until 12 or 1, when I go to sleep.
2.5 I do my homework, and go out with my friends. Sometimes I go to the campus, or to
Lal Bagh...
2.6. My friends are all studying at Eden College, Dhaka University or in other colleges, or
my childhood friends from the neighbourhood. I have made friends with some
people who come from completely different areas, like in Old Dhaka, and I visit
them to walk around these areas. I have a boyfriend! ..unfortunately, he lives and
studies in another district and so we meet very rarely, once in a month or 2. When
he comes, we visit Dhaka's interesting places and date in restaurants in Mirpur
(Chinese Hotel – these are always a little bit darker and thus it is easier to be a bit
intimate, or posh cafés.. ). Still, I can't date him in my parents' home – he comes to
us as a relative, whom he is, but when we want to date, we have to meet in a res
taurant.
2.9 There are more male walkers on the streets, indeed. It depends on the fact that men
work and women usually don't although it is changing and more of us go out for
education and work. My mum is also a housewife, but I am allowed to go out – if
not alone, with my sister. I don't have any problems taking the bus and my parents,
although we are also a Muslim family, allow me pretty much – we are a liberal fam
ily and we are allowed o see friends outside.
3.1. Yes, it's all riht over all
3.4. I think that the dhakayas are different than the rest of the people living in dhaka in
terms of values, behaviour and language. Their language has not changed. I have
the impression that they are more conservative, although few of them are highly
educated. They don't like to cope with modernity.
4.2. We stay at home, in Mirpur, and help mum to prepare the food for the guests who
come to visit our home. In the second Eid day, there is less to do and we young
people are allowed to hang around with friends, whom we visit at home or at the
Campus. We go out by rickshaw and enjoy the holiday.
4.3. I like to attend these functions. On 21 February we offer flowers at Shahid Minar in
the morning and attend the cultural programme during the whole day. For Bangla
New Year we always meet our friends in TSC, at the campus.
4.4. lal Bagh, National Museum, Old Dhaka... Campus, with friends and my sister.
4.5. If you mean the historical identity, it should be Ashan Monjil and Lal Bagh Fort.
4.6. We talk about political facts and life in our class.
4.8.Dhaka in itself is the centre of Bangladesh's political life. But I don't know which
should be ts centre, as I am only a student.
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10-01-07 , Central shahid minar
1.1. Shahana
1.2 female
1.3 .Married – 1 daughter
1.4 30-40
1.5. masters DU/ husband were class mate
1.6. islam
1.7. B.C.S admin. Under Establishment Ministry
1.8. Nilkhet, govt. quarter
1.10 House rent govt. cartel from my salary, it's about 3500
1.10a I am starting from student life: I lived in student dormitory like other migrants, so
my area was confined to university campus, nilkhet, new market, TSC and shahbug
but that’s the best belt in Dhaka city, that’s the beautiful place also, I fell in love with
class mate and days were interesting but now it is different, now Dhaka seems to me so
complicated, I am playing different roles here like admin. officer of govt., mother,
housewife, social one but it’s tough to maintain everything. I worked in other small
cities and those were calm, not so busy, everyone respected govt. Officers whereas here
a lot of pressure to survive with respect.
1.14. 18 years
2.13. Natore
2.1 it’s mostly evening I go to shopping – new market, Eastern Mollika
2.2. Daily office, sometimes shopping mall, Dhaka University Campus shahid minar
2.3. office by official transport, or rickshaw
2.4 Office – 10-4 , spend time for child – that’s my afternoon, then cook food, spend time
with husband
2.5 friends usually comes to my house or I go to their house with my husband because our
friends are more or less similar. Spend time with my child.
2.6. university life’s friends and colleagues, we make adda most of the time at office or
home.
2.7 BCS admin welfare club
2.9 women are less in office but more in street and market. Dhanmondi ladies club, gul
shan ladies club but that’s only for high society ladies.
3.1. In Natore, magistrate is a huge powerful person but Dhaka that is less - so here my
work range is limited, I am not so free to work. here in Dhaka city I feel a identity cri
sis. Like people are not respected on the basis of their position
3.2. for higher study, centralized system is the main disadvantages. everything is so un
equal
3.4 there is a gap in the education system, Dhaka is famous for quality education and mi
grants are not so usual to that quality education, so migrants are more active to
learn quickly and facing lot of technical problem.
4.2. this eid I spend at Dhaka, sometimes I go outside nature, friends come to my home
now colleagues are common visitors. when I worked in Natore , I had the responsi
bility to manage other religious festival, so I have huge experience, I like that – to
know so many of our rituals and traditions
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4.3. that’s something I used to do in student life, no more today
4.4. Asulia with husband
4.5. Bangladesh means paddy field and water bodies, no that’s totally absent here
4.6. TV, newspaper
Dhanmondi, Goethe-Institut, 30.11.06
1.1. Fatima
1.2Female
1.3. Unmarried
1.4. 40-50
1.5. university
1.6. Islam
1.7. Administration officer
1.8. Dhanmondi
1.9. Elephant Road, permanent. I’m living alone there.
1.10 Own flat
1.10a Mymensingh Road
1.11 Well it was a question of affordability, when we moved there I and my mum were to
live there and had to consider that as first. Then it’s a good neighbourhood, with a good
reputation. The flat is really beautiful, this was an important factor actually.
1.12 20-50,000
1.13. I was born in Faridpur, but never lived there. My father was a diplomat in Karachi,
that’s where I spent my childhood. We came to Dhaka after Independence, in ’73, then
I went abroad, to Germany, and came back some 10 years ago. Karachi when I was a
child, and Bonn for 17 years.
2.1 FOOD: Supermarket, depending where I am (Agora, Family World) – generally in
Dhanmondi. CLOTHES: Eastern Plaza and other shopping malls in Dhanmondi,
but I get sarees generally as presents by some relatives. OTHERS: OTOBI or Ele
phant Road for any other items.
2.3 Rickshaw, sometimes by car with my sister if I need big things.
2.4. I wake up in the morning, my servant comes and I give her directions for the cleaning.
I prepare lunch and eat at midday, then I go to work. I stay at office till 5-6pm, if I
don’t stay at GI for some programme or visit anybody I go home and cook for myself. I
don’t have a cook because, not being home, I wouldn’t trust anybody.
2.5. I have to finish the homework which stayed back during the week, I go for shopping, I
do some visits to relatives or friends. Sometimes, once a month, I go outside of Dhaka.
2.6. Not really, because I was abroad for a long time and in the last 8 years since I have
come back I had to take care of my mother, so I couldn’t build any new relation
ships. But I want to. Also meeting other men in my age is difficult in Dhaka, but at
work. Religion is an important fact to me, but I wouldn’t make it to a discriminant
ing factor for choosing friends. Mentality and having common interests are more
important.
2.9 It’s clear that there are less women, although on special events you may find
more of them than the loud men on the streets, for example on 8 March. I think it is
a problem related to the working world, men generally work, only a minority of
women do. That’s why men are more visible and women are not. Another point is
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that women are afraid of security, I take a rickshaw to go home when it’s dark and
my colleague is always afraid for me. I take the risk (it’s my only resource), others
wouldn’t do.
3.1. I didn’t feel much homely when I came back here after 17 years, I can’t feel any be
longing to Dhaka after having lived so long abroad. But I studies here, so I still
have a feeling for the Campus, and I miss it. That is my beloved place in Dhaka.
Also my brothers and sisters live here, this is actually a reason to fee a little bit at
home.
4.1. At home. I have never gone to a mosque in my life, I am religious but I don’t feel the
necessity to go to a mosque as a woman. For us there is no prescriptions that we
have to pray in the mosque, but it is better to stay home where there is enough to
do, in particular with children. I think also religion has to be practical sometimes.
4.1.a Cemeteries, because we have to think about death. It is important for Islam. Since my
mother’s death I do go to the cemetery sometimes. There are also the shrines, many
people go to worship there, although I don’t believe in them. Also the monument of
martyred intellectuals or the liberation monument in Savar are religious places.
4.2. With family and friends. In the morning, we prepare ourselves, wear new dresses, men
and young boys go to the prayer and mothers prepare the breakfast which on these
recurrences is particular. The moment of the breakfast is reserved to the small fam
ily circle. Then the visits of juniors start, and to the seniors, too.
4.3. Never, because I don’t like this kind of mass-events Everybody has to go there, just
like in the factory. I don’t like the show-off linked to these celebrations. Maybe I
could think to join the women’s day, I have never done it. Also Bangla New Year is
too cliché.
4.4. I don’t have much free-time, maybe 3 hours a day, and in that case I watch TV. Some
times I join some of the cultural programmes of Goethe-Institut or other cultural in
stitutes, but it is rather rare, in particular if it’s far away.
4.6. No, I don’t have time for that. And I am not interested, which comes along with the
fact that I think politics in this country is dangerous.. It’s also that I don’t know it.
4.8. Banga Baban, Parliament House. But I don’t feel represented by them. And of course
PM Office and AL-/BNP-head offices.
Dhaka University Campus , 11.06
1.1.Shariar
1.2 Male
1.3. Unmarried
1.4.30-40
1.5. D (university)
1.6.Islam
1.7. Teacher and academic
1.8 Ramna Tana, beside Sheraton Hotel, Old Elephant Road (new job, in one month)
1.9.Dhaka University Residential Area – temporary due to my father’s work, permanent
home is a flat in Dhanmondi that we sub-rent, with father and sister (mother died)
1.10.Partial Rent (8,000?)
1.10a Elephant Road
1.11 I like to be here and gossip (adda) with my friends, they are my close friends because
I have grown up here. Everybody gathers here, Campus is a lively environment espe
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cially for political leaders who I know. Especially the Shahbagh corner is very popular
for us.
1.12 20,-50,000Tk
1.13 I lived in Canada/Montreal and Ontario for some years.
1.14 I was born in Dhaka, my parents came to Dhaka from outside, so I’m second genera-
tion.
2.1 FOOD: PALACI market, New Market, CLOTHES: Shops and showrooms in Elephant
Road and New Market, OTHERS: Agora, Rifles Square or Gulshan 2 market for
good items, Eastern Plaza for technical stuff like mobile techniques etc.,
Boshundara city. I always go with friends and gather with them in those places.
2.3. By microbus of my research institute (in one month) for work, otherwise by foot or
rickshaw, no by bus because it is too crowded. I prefer windy, open environments.
2.4. (in one month) go to work 9-5, then meet friends either at Alliance or Campus (near
British Council) or Shahbagh, make adda drinking tea. Often, I would go to House of
Ministers or Banga Baban to see friends/known people (they re fathers of my school
mates) for maintaining good contacts, and afterwards go for dinner with my friends.
Generally I would reach home by 10-11pm.
2.5 Going to Aziz Supermarket and making adda with people there who are mostly my
friends or known to me – I also help them with computer problems. In the afternoon I
move to Dhanmondi, I join friends at Alliance Francaise and Rifles Square and stay
there, hanging around between gallery and street, talking about politics and others.
2.6 Some of my friends are sons of my father’s colleagues, or his students (especially of
the time when he was a provost), some are activists. I don’t have female friends. We
are shy about these things in Bangladesh, due to our education. Although now we
are improving. I had some classmates who are girls and we sometimes meet. I am
choosy about friends - they have to be well connected with ruling parties, I have
friends in both parties, for help in case of political fights, although I’m not in
volved. I need friends who are machos because I am fragile. Second important
thing is that they have to have some interest for music and art or be academics. Ac
tually these are more similar to me, I trust them more and my parents are more
happy about these companies than the others. I have poor relatives, but not poor
people among my friends. We donate in the village we come from, to them or to
orphanage (thrice a year).
3.1. I feel good in Dhaka, because I was born here, studied here and have my friends here.
Being inhabitant of Dhaka means that one lives in a modern environment, there is an
infrastructure compared to Bangladesh’s countryside. I feel a particular linkage to
Dhaka University Campus, it is an important part of the city and of the country, here
the education standard is special, I can identify myself with that.
3.4. Yes, people from Dhaka are less simple-minded (but those involved in politics who are
really machos), the settlers prefer simple, modest life, the village-life is simple,
Dhaka is more complicated.
4.1. I seldom go to mosque. If I go, I choose the one in the Campus because there are many
professors and VIPs and we can talk and discuss about politics after the prayer.
4.1.a There is a mini-mosque in the Campus, a very old one, but I never went there.
4.2As my grandparents already died, we stay in Dhaka. We visit relatives (they live in Mir
pur 11) and, in the afternoon, friends and political leaders in Mohammadpur, Dhan
mondi, Gulshan.
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4.3Yes, they are important for all Bangladeshis. Both on Victory and Language Day I go to
Bangha Baban in the morning to attend the ceremony and enjoy a picnic over there,
making adda. I like Bangla New Year, when I go to Teachers and Students Centre at
Campus, or to Teachers Club, or to Ramna Park where there is a music programme.
4.4. Dhanmondi Lake/Dingi (boat-loan space), Boshundara City, Teachers Club (when I
taught at University). Seldom, I would make some trips out of Dhaka. It would en
rich our life as city-dwellers to have some gathering places more. In Dhaka, people
use public spaces too much, for example ideal public spaces like TSC and Shah
bagh (*Aziz Supermarket) are always crowded. All public spaces like this, where
we are sitting on the footpath in front of British Council, spaces where people do
and can gather in peace, are too rare. We would also need more interventions in the
sense of beautification, more flowers, more lighting, more cleanliness. Also the
rickshaw-wallas are too many, they earn their life on the streets, the streets actually
belong to them, but they are overcrowding it, they don’t have any discipline.
4.5. Mirpur, because it represents the way our cities outside of Dhaka are. Suburbs. I actu
ally don’t go there, it’s a backward place.
4.6. Teachers and Students Centre (TSC), Modul Canteen (it’s the most renowned building
for politics, an institution!..), or I meet VIPs (politicians) at functions like at Press
Club, Shangshad Baban, MP Hostel and the Party Head Office or hotels.
4.7.I used to when I was a student, just for the fun of it. In that age, political life is an ad
venture for us, lacking of other facilities to make sports – and with such an unem
ployment. Hanging around processions becomes an activity to feel like heroes. 22%
of students will be really involved in politics , whereas the others just have to fake
in order to be allowed to live in the Campus.
4.8. It has been Dhaka University during the period of the student leaders, before the care
taker government. Now it is Banga Baban (*where the president lives). But in the
end political power is in the hands of political leaders, and some teachers/professors
who co-operate with the parties.
Monipuri Para , November
1.1.Oliver Halder
1.2. male
1.3. unmarried
1.4.20
1.5. higher secondary, preparing for university
1.6.Christian
1.7. Student (wants to join ABA-programme at DU)
1.9. Monipuri Para with parents – it’s just temporary address, our permanent is in Nohakali
1.10 Rented flat, 12,500Tk a month
1.10a We have only lived here, before we didn’t live in Dhaka.
1.11. In Monipuri Para the electricity problem is less acute because of the proximity of par
liament and PM-house. It is near to Farmgate, which is a nodal point for communica
tion in the whole city. I know the neighbourhood, although not the neighbours.
1.12. 20,-50,000Tk
1.13. I lived in London and then in Chittagong for a short period
1.14. for 14 years, before not in Dhaka.
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2.1 FOOD: I don’t do much, sometimes I buy some necessary things on the other side of
the street or I go to Kawran Bazaar for bigger shopping. CLOTHES: Banga Bazaar.
OTHERS: shopping malls
2.2. I go to my mentor in Khala Bagan
2.3. I go there by foot or by rickshaw, if it's farer by CNG
2.4 My classes are in the evening, so I wake up late and go to see my friends who study at
North-South University (Banani), in the morning or in the afternoon. We hang around
there, drink a tea, chat, play pool...
2.5. In the week-end i also see my friends but I also have to spend a little bit of time with
my parents and help by the housekeeping. My mum goes to church on Saturday even
ing, I only sometimes accompany her.
2.6 I met some of my friends casually, just at private parties or hanging around, some – the
majority – are friends from school and college. I don’t have friends among my
neighbours, actually. I have a countless friend-circle to hang around, but my real
friends are only 3. All are original of Dhaka. Religion is not a issue. I don’t mix
with poorer people generally, if I don’t know them, I don’t speak with them and I
would never have anything to do with them. But I have one friend in our circle, he
is actually poor and couldn’t afford to go to the English-medium school, so I help
him much. I have also female friends although it is difficult for them to go out, we
sometimes have to call their parents to convince them to give permission. Espe
cially regarding our roof-parties, girls are really less than boys, although nothing
could happen to them. With a girlfriend I would never go to Dhanmondi Lake or
even to the Campus, it’s for lower classes – people there would make comments or
disturb us. We could meet at friends’ or in a restaurant in Dhanmondi (Gulshan
would be too expensive). *There are 6 social groups in dhaka:
1 poor
2 middle ...I could go to Dhanmondi Lake
3 middle
4 my class -> I go to restaurants.
5 rich
6 richest
3.1 Dhaka is Bangladesh’s heart of life, my parents have found job here. In Bangladesh
there is nothing to do and search for but in Dhaka. There are job possibilities in differ
ent fields than industry and agriculture. So, I feel at home here, I belong here, and I no
tice it when I am out of town, because I miss it. Of course it is all about knowing
people and how the people in the city are.
3.4. There are differences in the thinking patterns, in ideologies and ideas – and the music
taste is different.
4.1. The Tejgaon church is one of the biggest and the nearest churches in town, I some
times go there.
4.1.a I’m not interested
4.2. Eid is just vacation for us, I join my friends and we do what we regularly do everyday,
just dressed up. But for Christmas we go to Nohakali where my grandmother and
other relatives live.
4.3. Yes! On victory day there is a extra-prayer in church, also for New Year, I go there
with my parents. I like to go to Campus with my friends on Language Day, and the
best day is Bangla New Year when we go to Ramna Park, then DU Campus, and
then hang around. We may go to Mukhto Moja (=Rabindra place on Dhanmondi
Lake) for drama events.
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4.4. I have a lot of free-time to spend with friends! Actually I always hang around with
them in the afternoon, we roam around, go to shopping malls to see girls, we spend
time gossiping and making adda, eat something at fast-food stalls. Sometimes we
go to play basket near/in the Cantonment, or swimming, it depends on the kind of
friends. I used to go for jogging around the parliament in the morning, but my par
ents have forbidden me because they say it is not safe, and anyway it has been
closed now. In the evening we often have parties on the roof-tops of some of my
friends’, we stay there long chatting, drinking and listening to music. We lack a lot
of recreation spaces, imagine that people have to go to a planetarium to have a bit
of entertainment! Every bit of space is public in Dhaka, but in the sense that it can
be used for building something on it .this should change, we need much more
spaces to go to instead of having to stay at home or in closed spaces.
4.5. No, Dhaka has grown to a different place than entire Bangladesh. If you see Dhaka
you don’t get any idea about the country. Dhaka is actually 20 years forward in
comparison to Bangladesh.
4.6. I read newspapers and I sometimes discuss with friends, but we are not too political.
4.8. Parliament?
Shamoli badminton mati
1.1. Gisan Faisal
1.2 male
1.3. unmarried
1.4.20
1.5. secondary
1.6 Islam
1.7. Student
1.8. Sher- E –Bangla nagar Study, Mohammadpur – most of my friend
1.9. Shyamoli, permanent
1.10 Own house
1.10a tejkuni para, not for long time
1.11.Yes, here there is a play ground, friend-circle, open space – like where we are playing
badminton now, environment is good .
1.12 3000, I am a student
1.13 Saudi Arabia, Ava city
1.14 last 10 years
2.1 food from Kawran bazaar, cloths – new market, rifle square, rapa plaza, Bosundhara
garden city
2.2. Daily college, mohammadpur
2.3. I have a car, I drive it
2.4. Class/ practical most of day time – afternoon is free time to somewhere, I have huge
study load, I study in library or home, then some times not regular to play bad
minton.
2.5. most of the first day of week we have exam so week-end for preparation, sometimes
adda, play or long drive or dating. Restaurant: halvetia, Western grill, home, asulja
2.6. yes, all are student, MBBS, BUET, DU
2.9 Security problem, women are less in number .
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3.1. Yes, because it is the centre of everything
3.4. migrants take time to adapt but inhabitants can do everything sharply, migrants have
fear.
4.1. Friday, mosque – or sometime at home with father
4.2. dhaka, during day time with friends and at night with family members, some times go
to long travel like sonargaon, asulia or far more distance
4.3.A yes, we enjoy in our own way not go to gather somewhere like others
4.4. with girlfriends – asulia, savar (we have a house there, sometimes I pass there with my
girl friends )
4.5. Asulia
4.6. my college canteen or Dhaka university sometimes I go there with my friends, I don’t
have enough time to read news paper
4.8. Secretariat is the centre of power, political leaders are controlled by them and my fam
ily have a good linkage there .
New Market
1.1. Harisa Akter Khanom
1.2 female
1.3. I am married, have 3 children – 1 son and two daughters. They are all educated, one is
in US (her husband is an atomic engineer, the second daughter is a doctor and also
her husband is. My son works in CEMENT, his wife is here with me).
1.4. 40-50
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. housewife, my husband is vice-principal of polytechnical institute
1.9. We used to have a house in Shahin Bag – it i our permanent house but we don't live
there as my son got a job in a pharmaceutical company near Uttara. So we bought a
house there. We are still living there although he changed his job, but we kept the
house in Shahin Bug and rent it to others.
1.10. Own flat and house
1.10.a. Shahin Bagh
1.11. Well, I liked the neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh, people were friendly or, in fact,
known to me. though it was pretty loud and chaotic. Uttara is more tranquil and
thus I also like it. It has more open space than the congested Shaheen Bagh, where
as that neighbourhood feeling is a little bit missing.
1.12. 20-50,000
1.13. Since my father was a school teacher, we moved a lot in Bangladesh. Then, with my
husband, I lived in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for his job. I also visited
Kuwait.
2.1. My husband and I both do the katcha bazaar in Uttara. We also buy our clothes in
shopping malls in Uttara and Gulshan, I and my husband and son. Today I am in
New Market because I want to buy some clothes and send them to my daughter in
USA, for Eid.
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2.2. We have a lots of relatives in Dhaka, in Bashabo, Kakrail, Nakhal Para, and thus
sometimes we go to visit them. We have a good relationship, we always visit each
other. Then, for bazaar, New Market...
2.3. By CNG and taxi, if I go out alone, I like to take the bus.
2.4. I wake up at 5 for the prayer, then I walk around the quarter for health reasons (I have
diabetes). I get refreshed and recite the Quran, after that I have breakfast and read
the newspaper. After that I look after my home-maids cooking. We eat, watch TV,
sleep... we go to sleep at 11, hardly 12
2.5. Of course, I and my family go out see our daughter, friends and other relatives. Actu
ally, the number of my friends is decreasing as we are getting out of sight, so it's
more relatives and daughter.
2.6. I don't have friends, just my relatives.
2.9.There are more women on the streets of Dhaka, which is a consequence of the fact that
they work nowadays. People think that this is bad but I think that there is no prob
lem – Islam allows women to work (not to hang around!) if they maintain the
purdah, that is, covering their hand and wearing and burkah...
3.4. I think that all people are equal, dhakayas are cordial and nice like the others, although
the dhakayas don't give enough attention to the education of their children.
4.1. At home
4.2. I cook jhal chicken and other typical food for my brothers and family who come to
visit us. On the second day, we go out. We visit relatives and bring them this food.
4.3. I like to watch these events form TV, but I don't attend them I try to avoid traffic and
congestion. I have to maintain the pardah, that's why.
4.4. Watching TV, visiting friends.
4.5. Savar National Memorial and Oporajeoh Bangla (Unbeaten Bengal, tree-place in
Dhaka Campus!)
4.8. No, I don't think so, politics have to be everywhere in the country.
10-10-2007, Fine art institute / Art College, Dhaka University Campus
1.1. Chobi
1.2. female
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 20-25
1.5. Graduate student
1.6. islam
1.7. Student
1.8. Dhaka University
1.9. Cantonment / Kachu Khet
1.10. With my parents -6000
1.11 It’s a residential area, it's near military cantonment so crime is low and law is strict,
especially traffic law. Transportation/communication is not so easy. all the neighbors
are not in the army.
1.12 myself, 3000
1.13. I have no village memory
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1.14. more than 30 years
2.1. I have no specific choice. most of my preferred shopping mall is near Dhanmondi. I
like to go there with my friends, because they can bargain more than me. it's also to
share the choice. if I go alone then I can't enjoy, so I like friend - either boy or girl
2.2. Daily – university or a school near my house, where I teach elementary level children
drawing.
2.3. Bus Rickshaw
2.4 10am-5pm is my university time, that includes love–dating, class, adda. after that
sometimes shopping or visit nearby home to talk with friends after lunch I have less
class, so I spend time with different department during that time.
2.5 it's for my drawing academy where I teach the child – that’s the most enjoyable work.
it's not a good income source but I enjoy it
2.9 equal number; but there is no place only for women
3.1 I like Dhaka . but my dream is a less traffic on the street. I like to spend a week in vil
lage, not more than that. river and green and also food seems to me interesting. but
there is a difference – there life is slow, after seven all arrange for sleeping
3.4. the people who lived in Dhaka for long time is more involved, migrants are more ag-
gressive.
4.1. not regularly
4.1.a I like festive either religious or social. Eid is very interesting – I spend a lot of time
with boyfriend or others outside home and also help my mother to make different
food. Sometimes we go to village for Eid – that’s another way to enjoy.
4.3. A my institution is the best place for celebrating that sort of occasion. I am always a ob
server. I like my campus. this is the sound and safe place for dating also. I spend
time with my beloved here
4.5. Shahid minar and my campus seems to me center of Bangladesh but nothing represent
ing the whole Bangladesh.
4.6. Television, my friends are now avoiding to talk about politics
4.7. I am not a activist. I only attend 1st boishakh
4.8. we need a political change for economic reform . I dislike the main parties
Monipuri Para, 23.11.06
1-1- Snighda Bryan
1.2.Female
1.3. Married, three children, two boys of 23 and 22 years, one daughter of 8 (adopted)
1.4 50-60
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Christian (converted from Hinduism, like her husband)
1.7 Private Bangla Teacher
1.8. Monipuri Para (door to door)
1.9. Monipura Para (temporary address), permanent is in Khulna (Mongla)
1.10 Rented flat, 11,500Tk a month
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1.11. It’s for a practical reason. I came to live here just because I found a flat with another
flat beside it, for the school.
1.2. 20,-50,000Tk
1.13 Bogra (with her brother), then Iqbal Road (Mohammadpur, with her sister), Mag
Bazaar, Raja Bazaar, Circular Road, Crescent Road, Khola Bagan, Dhanmondi (7 and
9), Raga Bazaar and finally Monipuri Para. Shifts due to changed financial situation/
affordability, logistics requests, or development of building.
1.14. 1978. I moved to Dhaka after having completed the studies in Khulna.
2.1 FOOD: Farmgate bazaar and New Market for rice and spices. CLOTHES: I don’t buy
any for myself, normally I get presented by relatives. For my children I buy them in New
Market. OTHERS: New Market and Farmgate.
2.3 Rickshaw or bus (rarely)
2.4. I wake up at 5 or 6am, wash myself, take care of the plants and have breakfast, then
my children wake up and I prepare their breakfast. After they have left for university
and school I prepare the lunch and go to the bazaar. Either in the morning or afternoon,
or sometimes both, I have classes. Normally I take a sleep after lunch. I go to sleep
around 10.30 or 11pm.
2.5. Very early on week-ends (Saturday Sunday) I have private classes in Gulshan, I come
back and make some shopping on the way, I come home and have lunch with my
family. After that I get dressed for the classes of the afternoon, and after that I spend
time with my daughter.
2.6 No, after I left Bogra I didn’t make new friends in Dhaka. I still have a good friend
since the school-time, but she lives far away. During childhood I also didn’t have
many friends and I stayed rather alone, because my parents were strict and didn’t
want me to mix up with many children and be outside, even with my cousins. And
my husband doesn’t like it too (I never have any contact to men, apart from my stu
dents). Some of my husband’s friends and my brother too are very rich, actually
many of our relatives are rich, sometimes we get together, but we don’t have much
relationship. I used to be a member of a Christian initiative (S. Vincent de Paul), we
cooked for poor people and visited them in their homes. We met once a month and
decided what to do for the next month, whom to help. We collected money, espe
cially for Christmas, in order to buy them some presents. On a private base, I some
times help a old vegetable-seller.
2.9. It is not that there is no space for us, we are educated like that. When I was 9 my par
ents told me not to go out, not to laugh nor be loud, not to show up when strangers
visited our home, not to play with boys, and my mother taught me to walk silently.
Our generation had to follow all these things, it’s normal, but of course I was hurt
when I was refused allowance to go to play in the fields. My daughter can play out
side, in the courtyard of our house, but she cannot go outside of it (also my sons
had to ask my permission to go out of the courtyard and they still have to tell me
where they go, it’s our culture). But this is also going to change, when she’ll be 11, I
think that’s the age girls have to be conformed. They shouldn’t go outside. I also
don’t go out if not for necessary things, and never or rarely in the night. She’ll learn
from my example.
3.1. I don’t like Dhaka because it’s too crowded, loud, dirty. I don’t feel any attachment to
the city. I actually do not define myself as a dweller of Dhaka, I feel myself a villager.
3.4.I don’t think there is any difference between settlers and Dhakayas. My children were
born here but they can make friends in the village, so I think it is just a question of
openness.
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4.1. On Sunday morning I have classes, so I don’t go to church. But it is also a problem
that my church is in Asad Gate, it’s so far away since the rickshaws have been for
bidden in Mirpur Road, so I don’t go often there nowadays. I used to bring my chil
dren to church every week when they were younger, also because we lived nearer.
4.1. at home
4.2. When my children were young we used to go to my husband’s village, now we don’t
regard it as necessary and stay in Dhaka. In religious festivities like Christmas and
Eastern, I go to church in the morning and then cook some special food at home.
We sometimes go to visit some relatives in the evening. Eid is just vacation for us, I
actually try to avoid to go on the streets.
4.3. Yes, especially Bangla New Year. Before the terrorist bombings, we used to go to
Ramna Park, but we stopped after that. My sons keep going with their friends. My
husband goes to Shahid Minar very early in the morning of Language Day, I don’t.
I actually don’t go out all day.
4.4. Free-time for me is staying at home.
4.5. The National Museum. When they were young, I brought my children there, nowadays
I sometimes go with my students.
4.6. I am not interested, although my husband is and we talk a bit at home.
4.8. No, I don’t like politics. Not because it is not good for women, just because it is not in
teresting to me personally. I don’t like any kind of crowds and I prefer not to think
about those matters.
4.9. No idea, I never thought about that.
Azimpur, 22.11.06
1.1. Salahuddin Akbar
1.2. male
1.3. divorced
1.4. 50
1.5. university
1.6. Muslim
1.7. Ministry secretary
1.8. Topkana Road – Bangladesh Secretariat
1.9. Azimpur- it is a temporary accommodation which I got from the state, but we have an
other two in Uttara and Norshindi
1.10I pay a rent for this house, but it is subsidised by the government so I only have to pay
8000Tk
1.10.aI lived in Malibag when I was a child, then we moved to Rampura, then I was a stu
dent at Dhaka University and then Khola Bagan and Green Road before I had to move
abroad for my profession.
1.11. There is a wide space, which is rare in Dhaka, the air is more fresh and there are
trees, a pond and a wide view, while in the rest of Dhaka I feel squeezed. Azimpur is in
a central location, it’s good for reaching all city. In former times, aristocracy used to
live here, old bureaucrats used to move here, but nowadays people like new areas like
Gulshan or Dhanmondi, where they get a house. Actually, I also would like to move to
Gulshan as all my friends moved there.
1.12. 20-50,000Tk (25,000 + subsidised house, free car and phone...)
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1.13. I lived in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Morocco during my service at Foreign
Ministry
1.14. Since my birth, I’m second generation, in Dhaka. In Azimpur since 6 months.
2.1 FOOD: New Market; CLOTHES: Dhanmondi or Gulshan, Ramna Market (Gulistan)
for clothes and Elephant Road for shoes and shirts. My tailor is in Dhanmondi. ;
OTHERS: New Market/Nilkhet for books, Rifle’s Square, Boshundara and Eastern
Plaza for CDs and mobile. Stationery products in Gulshan, Mirpur for furniture.
2.3. BY CAR
2.4. 8am wake up, then I start working at 9, I’m done by 5 and go out. In winter it’s already
dark, so I don’t really go out, but in summer I like to take advantage of the light. Now,
in winter, and as a single, I don’t know what to do in evening time.
2.5. I visit, generally for dinner, some friends, or I go to a Club. I am a member of Press
Club (since Foreign Ministry times) and Officers’ Club (it’s the favourite club for of
ficers and diplomats), I can go to Dhaka Club, Gulshan Club and American Club as
a guest. Dhaka Club is the most important gathering for Dhaka’s business com
munity. At the club I play tennis, cards, billiard or I swim in the daytime, whereas I
spend the time at the bar in the evening. I don’t go there regularly, only sometimes
because I often spend the weekends with my family in Uttara or Norshindi.
2.6. I only have very rare friends since they are married, because our daily rhythm is too
much different, and others have also moved abroad. I have a difficulty to meet per
sons of the other sex, in part because I do not like Bangladeshi women and there are
few foreigners in Dhaka. I have lots of friends who are richer, they have become
businessmen and need my help because I work in the ministry, or used their job in
a ministry to make extra money.
3.4. Yes. Settlers are more enthusiastic, happier to live here in Dhaka, for them it’s a
dream, especially when they manage to buy a house here, it means having reached
something in life. Dhakayas are inactive. Also old settlers have lost their initiative,
they just watch what’s happening with nostalgy.
3.1. I belong to Dhaka, it’s my city. My dreams are here because I have lived my childhood
and youth here, Dhaka has formed my aspirations. Those dreams... actually we
dreamt of moving to Europe. I actually quitted my job at Foreign Ministry because
I missed my country, especially my family (mother) too much, I could not really get
used to different food and culture, I find the Bangladeshi ones are richer. But we
don’t have any features for a city in Dhaka, nowadays. There used to be a proud in
being a dweller of Dhaka, when Dhaka was a beautiful city. For example, it was
normal to go to Old Dhaka, we identified ourselves with that part of the city as a
mirror of our culture. Nowadays people identify themselves with shopping malls-
culture... shopping malls are the only actual attraction for people living here.
4.1. I only go on Friday, nearby. I used to go to Old Dhaka, in a 400-year-old mosque near
Lal Bagh, but nowadays I find it time-consuming.
4.1.a High Court Mazaar – I go there to see people, I like watching them. I also go to the
Hindu Pujas.
4.2. We stay in Dhaka – I sleep most of the time at my relatives’ after having gone to the
morning prayer on the open field.
4.3.I used to when I was young, now I have to attend functions and receptions for official
reasons, for example there is a celebration on national parade square, near Shere
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banglanagar, on victory day. I used to take part in Bangla New Year which is not an
official holiday, going to Ramna Park early in the morning, but nowadays it is too
crowded and dangerous.
4.4. In summer, after work, I stay outside, go for a walk or to some receptions and, once in
a month, I join conferences and receptions linked to my work. The problem is that I
am the only one among my friends who is unmarried, they spend more time with
their families, whereas it’s difficult for me to join. So, I spend much of my free-
time making music alone, writing e-mails to friends who are living abroad.
4.5. Asulja. Now in Dhaka it is impossible to find anything like Bangladesh. The whole
country and also the city used to be like Asulja, not too long ago...
4.6. There was a time in my life when we spoke about politics openly, nowadays it has
changed, officials speak only with similar minded persons. Students can speak
openly. Nowadays I only discuss about politics in the private sphere and I read the
newspaper or talk with colleagues to be informed.
4.7. I did after Independence, but I was not too much interested in politics as a student.
Then there was martial law and curfew, so every kind of political activity was sus
pended and banned.
4.8. University Area, the Campus is the nucleus for politics also nowadays, and also the
Press Club.
Wari (Akika party), 7.11.2006
1.1 .Shaneel
1.2. male
1.3. Married for 2 years
1.4. 29
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Muslim – practising!
1.7. Private Service holder (CATERPILLAR)
1.8. I work in Gulshan
1.9. Mag Bazaar, it’s temporary. Permanent would be in Wari (parents’ home)
1.10 Rented flat, 15,000Tk a month
1.10aI lived in Wari 26 years long, then we moved to Mag Bazaar because the house we lived in
had to be renovated/developed. But I and my wife are going to stay here.
1.11. Mag Bazaar is better for the communication to Gulshan where we both work, although I don’t
like it much, actually. Going back to Wari would mean to live again with my parents. This flat
in Mag Bazaar is a little bit cheaper than the developed ones in Wari, and it is not too big for
the two of us. I would find it ideal to live in Baridhara or Boshundara, but these neighbour
hoods are too expensive.
1.12. 20,-50,000Tk
1.13. I was born in Dhaka and never moved from Wari till 3 years ago.
2.1 I have never bought food in my life. CLOTHES and OTHERS: Twin Tower, Boshundara City,
Eastern Plaza or Moja (shopping malls), otherwise we go to boutiques in Gulshan and
Dhanmondi.
2.3 by car with my driver, for safety, cause I don’t like to leave the car on the street for long time. If
he’s not there I would prefer to take a CNG or a rickshaw. after work, in the evening I take a
CNG or a taxi because I send the car to pick up my wife earlier.
2.4. I wake up at 7, go to work by 8.30am, and work till 5pm. After work I go to gym (in Gulshan),
and I am normally at home by 7. I spend the rest of time with my wife and my brother listening
music in our sleeping room, sometimes we see some friends, once or twice a week we go out
for dinner.
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2.5. In the weekends we meet friends in their houses, we go for shopping and eat at restaurants.
2.6 Most of my friends are childhood friends, most of them still live in Wari where I brought up,
some in Pantha Path, dhanmondi and Khola Bagan. We are all from Dhaka. I am friend
with some poorer people, for example with a shoe-cleaner who used to be my playmate
when I was a child. The education difference is no matter to me, I don’t care. I enjoy his
company. I am also friend with richer people, I don’t care about that.
3.1. Having been born here, being from this country, I am home here. My work is here, I know
Dhaka very well, every place is known to me. My family and friends are here, my history.
Dhaka is the capital, here there are jobs and it’s more developed than the rest of the country.
3.4. There is a difference, language is different, settlers often speak tribal dialects. I don’t like
people from Barisal, Nohakali and Sylhet, they are different in language and mentality.
4.1. I pray everyday 2-3 times a day, and I go to the mosque on Friday
4.2. We spend Eid at home, at my family’s or at other relatives’, in the afternoon we manage to be
free and go out by car.
4.3.We decorate home for 16 December, on Language Day we just go to the annual book fair, cause
the procession is crowded and I don’t like to be in a crowd with my wife. Bangla New Year
is fun, we go out, to Ramna Park, we buy things go to a fair, and have lunch outside.
4.4. I like to have party and meet together to spend the night with friends at home. In our free-time,
we sometimes go out, sometimes we stay at home or go to some relatives’ or friends and
also spend night at theirs, if it becomes late and it’s weekend. It depends on here our
friends live – we anyway have to take a longer trip, often we are in Gulshan. In the night
we often like to go out by car after dinner, we just roam around. I like to see Dhaka in those
hours of the day, it’s empty and nice. There used to be open spaces to gather but as crimin
ality has increased it is risky. We used to play in real playgrounds, I wonder where my chil
dren will play – now these places have been developed to become buildings by real estate
companies. Dhaka is overpopulated, which is another problem for space. I would like a
clean Dhaka, free of beggars and corruption, with green spaces and playgrounds where you
can breathe and stay with your family.
4.5. Dhaka in its whole represents Bangladesh, all the city is the same – congested, chaotic. but ac
tually it is not Bangladesh. Asulja would be better to give an idea of Bangladesh, it’s on a
river, and you can see the nature.
4.6. I am not politically interested, I discuss about politics with my colleagues and my cousin.
4.7. Before my marriage I went to political processions, just for fun, only twice or thrice – we
stayed in the Campus, and avoided Paltan which could be more dangerous. I just went there
with some friends who are involved in politics, just to see how it feels. Now that I am mar
ried I wouldn’t take the risk.
4.8. High Court and Parliament, ideally. But power is in the hands of the parties, not in a place
committed to it. I think that the main offices of AL, BNP or JP should not be in Dhaka,
having them here is just a source of risk for Dhaka itself and I think that if we would de
centralised them there would be less chaos.
06-01-2007, Gausul Azam Road, Uttra 13
1.1. Ashik
1.2. male
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 22
1.5. undergraduate south east university (Private university)
1.6. islam
1.7. student
1.8. Banani
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1.9. Uttra sector 3
1.10. Own house with parents
1.11. It’s a peaceful place and less traffic good living environment
1.12 I have no personal income but my father have 40000 income per month
1.13 Kustia for 7-8 years
1.14.More than 20 years
2.1 Bangobazar, maskat plaza, kushal centre most of the famous place of Dhaka city
2.2 daily I go to university and gulshan /dhanmondi to meet my friends; this lake side in
uttara is our common meeting place
2.3 I have a car and usually drive it
2.4. I wake up late and go to university at 10, return at 4, then uttara bridge –lake, dhan
mondi or gulshan, where I meet my friend circle till 8 pm. then sometimes I go to DJ
party.
2.5. dhanmondi – gulshan – asulia with boy or girls
2.6 yes, most of friends belongs to same area but different institution
2.9 shopping mall – girls are more , streets – girls are less - beauty parlour is womens place
3.1. Dhaka is a city of chance of possibility, whatever I need, I can manage from here -
think about kustia, there is even absent of a good shopping mall.
3.4. migrants are less smart
4.1. Every day I go to mosque with my father
4.2. Eid, Dhaka, I date with a lot of girls inside the car, in my room or some other places
4.4. Coopers, Helvetia, or date in my room
4.5. Heritage park where every thing represented like a theme
4.6. newspaper, tv, we dislike politics we like only girls
4.7 we are member of a GYM
26-12-2006, West Rampura
1.1. Shahnaj Begum Bithi
1.2 female
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 25
1.5. secondary
1.6.Islam
1.7. Teaching / homeopathic doctor
1.8. Ulan road / west rampura
1.9. Rampura / palsh bug
1.10 Rented house -6,500
1.10A Chittagong road – Jattrabari
1.11 most of the educated people live here, once lived in jattrabari with parents but after
marriage I am living with my husbands place – jattrabari is also far from my work
ing place and it needs more to communicate with other place, so it’s a good place
from my perspective. I started a new life here, new room, new husband, I am enjoy
ing everything
1.12 30000 including my husband's house
1.13 Voirab – kishorgon
1.14 22 years
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2.1 kacha bazar – Rampura kachabazar, clothes – Anam plaza, rifle square, eastern market,
new market, chadni chawk – sometimes alone, sometimes with my friends and now
with my husband
2.2 weekly – my sisters house or to my mothers house
2.3. taxi cab, cng, bus - most of the time with my husband, my husband most of the time
needs my company
2.4make breakfast, come to school, (7.30-3), then back to home, washing and bathing, I
have a student, then from evening many patient comes to me for medicine.
2.5 Friday I wake up later, wash my clothes, go outside - to some of my relatives house or
friends house or restaurant
2.6. yes, everyday I have a meeting with my teacher friends.
2.9 New market and Gausia is comparatively a place for women, on street males are more,
if you go to Farmgate and Gulistan, women even can’t walk due to the pushing by
the men.
3.1. yes , here I can see every thing in face, which once I saw in news paper. I have a lot of
friends. I lived a shorter period in kishorgonj and most of the time chittagonj road
which is actually far from Dhaka. I think now I am in Dhaka, it's good
3.4. yes, who born in Dhaka is more active, they know Dhaka city well, they are smart and
everything is more accessible to them.
4.1. prayer / at home
4.1.a I have a lot of hindu friends, I like their festival and during festive I always join their
party or programme
4.3. yes, I work in school and we arrange some programme, sometimes I go to some fair
like cottage fair, education fair, trade fair
4.4. during noon, after lunch, I talk with other women next door.
4.5. lalbug kella (Fort) it’s a nice place its about the past of Bangladesh; Sonargaon
(naraiongonj), TSC, Botanical garden, Nandon Kanon, Asulia
4.6. TV or from other teachers, in teachers common room most of time teachers talk about
different issues
4.7. no, but sometimes I join in the procession of 21st February along with friends
4.8. I gave vote to a ruling party and they are taking power so power is in our hand
09.09, Gulshan 1
1.1. Mazhar Rony
1.2. male
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 23
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. editor in a private company
1.8. Gulshan 1
1.9. Central Road, temporary
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1.10. Rent flat, I live there with my parents and sister
1.10.a. In my childhood in Hatirpull (Elephant Road)
1.11. It's central as it takes 5 minutes to Shahbagh, which is the centre of Dhaka. Commu
nication is good, it is fast and easy to get everywhere from there. Furthermore, Aziz
Supermarket is near, this is my place in Dhaka.
1.12. Income 10-20,000 or more depending on contract)
1.14. I was born here, but my father comes from Comilla.
2.1.No katcha bazaar, as my father makes everything, he's so sweet. For clothes, New
Market and Banga Bazaar, recently also Aziz Supermarket, but I'm not that inter
ested in brands. DVDs, films: Rifle's square or Gulshan.
2.2. Gulshan for work.
2.3.Bus or tempo from home to Gulshan, CNG or taxi for work purposes when I have to be
fast – it's a burden, otherwise, to move in Dhaka.
2.4. You can't speak of daily routine in the film business, depending on our work load I can
work 24 hours a day, normally anyway 8 hours. Generally, I wake up at 12, get
breakfast and lunch together again 1 or 2 pm, then I may go to work and, if I don't
work, to Shahbagh. We sometimes chill out after work and go to sleep at 6 in te
morning. In these cases I stay at office to sleep. sometimes I don't come home for
some days.
2.5. It can happen that we don't have any work for 2-3 days and so I rest for the whole
time, sleeping and smoking ganja... I love sleeping, I can sleep 12 hours non-stop.
If I'm free, I hang out with friends in Shahbagh, if I have money smoking, if not
talking about drugs and how to use them, what to buy etc. Anyway, I have to be
reachable for the company, they can call me at any time to work...
2.6. I have no friends from childhood, nor in the neighbourhood. They are rather working
friends, school friends and ex activists that are having a miserable life.
2.7 I used to be in a leftist group, very active, but now I have quitted it as times have
changed...
2.9. it depends on the day-time. During the day they may be even in an equal proportion to
men, but it is rare to see any women after 10pm. It is a problem of our country, girls
have no chance to make adda outside and go outside before university.
3.1. Well, I have never lived somewhere else, I don't know anything beyond Dhaka, but I
can say that it is my home-city and thus I like it.
3.4. It's a matter of information, you have to see that it used to be impossible for people in
the countryside to be informed about external life, so there was a big gap between
urban and rural dwellers. But nowadays, with the introduction of internet, also
people of the countryside can be informed, although a little bit of difference re
mains
4.1. I don't pray
4.2. I'm out of family life by now, some of my relatives don't even know me... so I don't
think I have to participate all day long.
4.3. Nothing special to me, I just go to Shahbagh. It used to be special, but now I just go
there so usually that it doesn't make any difference with other days. I may join there
at evening, that's all.
4.4. There is no particular space for me, I don't feel any belonging but to Shahbagh. From
1999 to 2005, I used to hang around here everyday as I was politically active with a
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leftist group. Now I a m working and thus I have less time to go there – maybe 2 or
3 times in a week. I don't understand people who go to Dhanmondi Lake of
Gulshan, I don't feel at ease. Especially Gulshan is not at all a place for me,
Bangladesh's high class live here in beautiful houses, having 1-2 cars. We don't
have anything to search for there.
4.5. Police, traffic and shappla at Motijheel – this is the place I always identified with as a
Bangladeshi, nowadays police and traffic are more typical for Bangladesh...
4.6. Shahbagh, although I am less active nowadays as left politics have suffered a crisis in
the last years.
4.7. Yes, with friends, we were all activists.
4.8. Paltan
Uttara
1.1. khadija
1.2. female
1.3. married, two children
1.4. 30
1.5. secondary
1.6. islam
1.7. health worker of an NGO (BRAC)
1.8 Entire Uttara thana
1.9. Sector 4 uttara
1.11. No, I visited a lot of places, comparatively this place is out of danger (crime), calm
When we started to live in sector 4 that was full but sector 7 in that time was empty. but
now sec 7 is developed more and its full comparatively 4. number of house and popula
tion is more in sec 7 but its looks nice rather than 4, it's planned but 4 is unplanned,
most of the house is older in 4. I like 7 and sometimes visit.
1.12. 3000 my own, my husband earns 40.000
1.14. more than 100 years
2.1.a Majar – Kachabazar at uttara, Uttara, Tongi, Bango bazaar – which is near my aunt’s
house. I dislike to go alone, I like to talk with someone during the trips
2.2. Daily in and around uttara for work and when I feel bored I go for walking and shop
ping with my husband or alone
2.3. On foot / rickshaw
2.4my first work to prepare my child for madrasa, then cook for my husband, go to the of
fice, I have to submit my daily activity there. then I return home, teach my child
and watch TV at night
2.5. here and there according to children’s demand
2.6 my friends are mostly my colleagues, some of them are elder and they call me to their
home sometime we eat and gossip together. I like the company of both boy and girl
friends, income is not a factor for friendship
2.7 I am in many organization like ASA, pollimongol, BRAC, Ansar – VDP
2.9. Training center of NGO is womens place; they are equal in number
3.1. I like Dhaka, because it is still now village is not so developed , that’s full of foxes, at
dark its seems to me dangerous - Dhaka is full of light .
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3.4. migrants are mostly work-oriented, without reason or work they never talk to others /
relation of migrant is mostly work based
4.1 yes, daily once or twice
4.1.a I have friends of all religion, mostly I enjoy puja
4.2. I prepare some special item of food like cake or others which is most expensive. go to
visit to some relatives house because of some family interaction is essential.
4.3. A obviously, 1st of Boishakh fair in uttara, parliament, bijoy soroni, Savar during other
festive. 21st of February I go to nearby school to see to cultural programme.
4.4.Baunia RUNWAY (near airport ) with my husband, nabi nagar, sisu park, mirpur
mazar, most of time with my husband because children disturb me more, he is more
able to manage them
4.5. parliament because of its greenery and openness, Fuchka, flower, hawker, trees of
Bokul flower, over all that’s the best place in Dhaka
4.6. tv
4.7. yes – Muktangong for political / disable-campaign
4.8. I don’t know
9.9.2007, Gulshan 1, Grameen Office
1.1. Najmin Khan Rumi
1.2. female
1.3. married, 2 children
1.4. 30-40
1.5. d) university
1.6. Islam
1.7. Profession accounting, then quitted for children
1.9. Mag Bazaar, temporary
1.10. rented home, 15,000/20,000 Tk a month
1.11. It is good for communication as my husband works in Gulshan. It is very fast reach-
able from Mag Bazaar.
1.12. 40,000
1.13. Netrakona
1.14. 1991, from Netrakona for studying (my father's post was shifted in Dhaka – he's a
burocrate).
2.2. Gulshan...
2.4. I wake up at 8, take care of my children, wake them up, make breakfast. I spend time
at home to taking care of them as they are very small children. We go to bed at 11
2.5. We spend time with the relatives, very rarely university friends as we are expected to
stay with our family. I used to have plenty of time before the birth of my children, but now
with them it is hard to socialise.
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3.1. I don't really like to live here, but in terms of education and other infrastructure it is
the best choice. I think about my children and would like to give them the best for
their future.
4.3. All these occasions are really important for our family, as my family is a progressive
family and many of us were freedom fighters. I used to take part in all of them but,
because of the children, I can't attend them anymore but I follow everything in TV.
4.5 Lal Bagh Fort, it represents our history
4.8. Motijheel and 0 point – al demonstrations and actions started from there.
Banani, 4.11.2006
1.1. Meghna Guhatakurta
1.2. Female
1.3. unmaried
1.4 .50
1.5. E (professor)
1.6. Hindu
1.7. I worked as a professor at university, now I am executive director of an NGO, doing also re
search for development (part-time).
1.8 banani
1.9 Mirpur 6
1.10 Rented flat (8.300Tk)
1.11. I’m living here since 2004, before I used to live in the Campus but I had to move for security
reasons after one accident which happened in my flat there. And before living in the Campus,
as a teacher and, earlier, as a student, I lived and was born in Old Dhaka. My father and mother
had come to Dhaka for their studies, they married and lived first, during my childhood, in Old
Dhaka, (Ekkranpur) then in the Campus where my father worked, then again in Old Dhaka
(Gandarea) and again in DU Campus until 1971 when my father was assassinated in the Liber
ation War. After it we moved back to Gandarea and stayed there till 1981 with my mum. I
moved another time to Campus as a teacher and stayed there till 2004.
1.12 50.000 Tk
1.13. I lived 8 years in London
2.1. katcha bazar in Mirpur, on the way back home LOTHES: Whenever I go to Kolkata I buy new
sarees (the rest of my family lives there), but I go to Khala Bagan or Aarong for sawar kamiiz.
OTHERS: Shopping malls. I actually try to make the shopping on remote control basis – en
charging someone or waiting for presents – and duty free!
2.3. 2.2 Always by car (office car), before I had to go by CNG.
2.4. I get up at 7, go to office by 9 and stay there till 5, then I go home or to social engagements,
sometimes diplomatic, sometimes work-related, sometimes friends and socialising. On my way
home I generally do the shopping. I sometimes have to leave the country for professional reas
ons, on average it will be 8-10 days a month.
2.5. I got used to go to a gym on Saturday, it’s in Gulshan 1, and I also take dance courses. I actu
ally used to go to the Campus to meet friends in the first period, but now I stopped doing that. I
also make the rest of shopping in the weekend. On Friday I have to do the home-works.
2.9 Wedding parties? ..there is a women centre where women gather and have a Monday adda (Pra
bartana). There are less women on the streets, because it is a Muslim country and the reli
gion is underlying the society system. It is changing though, and some signs are particu
larly visible - also due to the fights of the students - in the Campus.
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3.1. I first have to think of Old Dhaka, where I spent my childhood. I had my friends there and I
knew every spot from where to pick up mango fruits etc., the environment was so well known
to us! It’s a open environment for children to play and explore, I loved it. And there were trees
at that time. I went to school in Laki Bazaar and then in Tejgaon. The second neighbourhood I
feel attached to is the Campus, where I studied and worked. The main advantage there is the
greenery, and that there is a lot of space. Of course it was a great deal that everything was so
near, the Campus being the core of Dhaka’s political and social life. I would have never
thought to move to Mirpur, it’s so far away and I come from Old Dhaka! ..still the security
problem and the fact that a close friend lives and actually owns the house convinced me to
move there. I don’t have actually time to think about Mirpur, I don’t like it. It’s just for the flat,
I feel secure living here. But there are no trees and no space. Despite everything Dhaka Uni
versity Campus is my favourite place in Dhaka and I miss it.
We actually had the option to go to Kolkata – an option any Hindu has to consider once -, but I
subconsciously decided that I wanted to stay in Dhaka. I belong to this city, meaning that I be
long to its history, culture and politics – it’s about the culture of its people.
3.4. There is a basic social difference between dhakayas and settlers, the way they dress, speak and
behave is different. Dhakayas talk in a much more polished way, they are cleverer. Settlers
bring with them the village’s atmosphere, which is odd, not sophisticated enough. Dhakay
as are also more aware of hierarchies.
4.1. I don’t pray, but I join the Pujas, which is rather tourism for me and a reunion occasion.
4.1.aI feel spiritual experience in the Campus, at Shahid Minar, which is a symbol for Bangladesh’s
history and for the World, too. All places of memories are spiritual, and wherever there is
nature, there you’ll find god.
4.2. I don’t observe it, I am Hindu. I rather try not to be in the city
4.3. Not nowadays, and I never joined Bangla New Year. In general I don’t like crowds. But there is
a beautiful period between 1 and 16 of December, before victory day. All days there are
events, drama and music programme, public occasions and movements, I like to join there.
I also go for the reunions on 8 March.
4.4. Outside, going out for dinner or lunch with friends, we like to explore Dhaka and be together.
It’s important to have a personal choice of eating places. In particular days I also like to go
to DU Campus or to Old Dhaka, to show these places to friends who don’t know them.
4.5. DU Campus for it is a historic place.
4.6. Teachers’ Lounge in the Arts Building in DU Campus, and shahid minar. Nowadays I am los
ing this habit.
4.7. I took part in demonstrations and I still join the procession on 8 March. Important places for
demos are shahid minar, Banga Baban, the Parliament and High court.
4.8. The Parliament as place of democracy, but not of power which I think resides in people.
Shahid minar is a space representing the power of people, the liberation monument in savar
too. And zero point in Gulistan too.
2.6 I still have college days’ friends, and then there are good friends from the centre for social stud
ies where I used to work. We have different backgrounds, socially and in our education, but
we have a common ground regarding our political and intellectual orientation. according to
my education and in my family we didn’t conceive any division of labour, I don’t judge
people according to their income. I always have had poorer people working for me, some
grew me up as my mother worked, some are linked to me by gratitude as we helped them,
there is also a woman who helps me in the house-keeping and gives me massages, I know
her home and family matters. When someone is serving you for a long time, you naturally
get to know them and their life if you are open to listen to them. But I don’t have any
friends who are businessmen, nor very rich people, I don’t feel comfortable with them.
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Green Road 48, 7/12/2006
1.1. Fayzal
1.2. male
1.3. married, 2 children (1 daughter of 15, one boy of 12)
1.4. 40-50
1.5. university
1.6. Islam
1.7. Developer
1.8. Green Road
1.9. I have lived in Green Road since my birth (1964), the house belongs to our family since 1958.
My father was a public officer, former a British officer, and had to move very often in his life.
Finally, he settled up here. He built a 2-storied building for his family, and still now it is not de
veloped! Our family is attached to the house and urban area and we don’t want to change it.
1.10 Our own house.
1.11 I could afford to live in Gulshan but I was born here and I feel I belong here. My children
don’t necessarily like to live here, in this old house, and ask me to live in a modern apart
ment, even if it were smaller, for their friends. But for myself I would never move from
here because I was born here and I don’t want to demolish this house.
1.12 more than 80,000
1.14 1958. My grandfather came from Barisal, so I’m 2nd generation. We are a religious family.
2.1 FOOD: Agora – I prefer going to mega-shops, I feel more comfortable. CLOTHES:
Boshundara City OTHERS: We don’t go to New Market but to repair things or buying
small things from some of the shops.
2.3. By car if I have to go with my family, myself, I sometimes go for a rickshaw-ride in order not
to drive, and sometimes I walk
2.4. Home and office are together, so I don’t have much to plan. I generally work till 5.30/6pm, al
though sometimes it takes me till 11pm, then I go to see friends in their houses or offices
(some are in Gulshan, some in Dhanmondi). We chat and stay together some hours. Once
or twice a week I go to alliance francaise. We may go for a drive to Asulja, listening to mu
sic. I like driving my car!
2.5. I stay back home, spend some time with my family, we may go to the cinema in Boshundara
City. Sometimes we go to Cox’s Bazaar or Rangamati or make a 1-day trip, e.g. to Kustia,
etc. We generally go out for dinner (Thursday or Friday evening).
2.6 My friends are generally in my age, they are bankers, do airline business, all of them come
from very good families. I also have one Hindu friend who is a businessman. I don’t have
any childhood friends but one, who is still living beside my house. The others are people I
met through other friends, we got to speak and since our mentalities matched, we kept in
contact.
2.9 it is the security factor due to which there are less women in the streets. Actually, my wife goes
out alone, to gym or even to concerts alone, with my daughter, too (but by car, with driver).
But I wouldn’t allow my daughter to go out alone, it’s not safe.
3.1.I would miss Dhaka, my roots and friends are here, I know my place is here – but it is not be
cause Dhaka is a capital city, I would feel equally attached to Barisal, too, if I were born
and had my friends there. At my son’s age, I could play all around but these days we have
no place left. And, actually, with whom could he play, in the end? He and his friends play
video-games., they don’t do any sport, and my daughter too. They visit friends’ homes and
go to fast-food restaurants or to shopping-malls.
3.4. I think the immigrants’ mentality is more simple when they arrive, but there is no real differ
ence because after a while everybody becomes accustomed to the city. Certainly, some
people have lived here for more than 50 years and still they don’t match with Dhaka’s soci
ety.
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4.1. I pray 5 times a day, but I only go once a week, on Friday, to the mosque with my son, here
near.
4.1.a shrines, but they are outside of Dhaka.
4.2. We spend Eid in Dhaka because my other sisters and mum are living in Dhaka, too. We follow
all Muslim celebrations, and always spend them here.
4.3. I take part in these celebrations, but only in those during the daytime, evening is dangerous. I
used to join them when I was a student. I feel much attached to Bangla New Year, we
would go with the children in the early morning, but last couple of times we didn’t go due
to terrorism danger. I think this year we will go.
4.5. Dhaka doesn’t reflect Bangladesh, a paddy field would do. Buildings like in Dhaka are only in
Dhaka, even the British were only here. Thus, Dhaka’s development was unique in the
country. Bangladesh is paddy, canals and rivers.
4.6. Not any specific space, I discuss with friends.
4.7. When I was young
4.8. Unfortunately, centre of political power has been shifted to Paltan instead of Parliament!
Dhanmondi, “Leisure Lounge”
1.1. Fayez Raman
1.2. male
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 20
1.5. higher secondary
1.6. Islam
1.7. Student at East West University (English Medium, private Univ.)
1.8. Mohakali
1.9. I live in a concrete jungle, in Shanti Nagar. It’s our permanent address.
1.10 Our grandmother’s house.
1.11. Although it is congested, it’s nice. I know it so well, I know our neighbours and we are
friends. This is not the case of other neighbourhoods, people don’t have any attachment in new
er areas.
1.12. 50,-80,000Tk – family..
1.13. I was born here and my parents too. My mother is now living in the USA, after my father
passed away.
2.1 FOOD: I don’t have to take care of it. CLOTHES: Banga Bazaar – it doesn’t matter how rich
you are, you have to go there! Otherwise I go to Boshundara City or Aarong, that’s also a
way to meet people/girls. OTHERS: Etcetera for DVD (Gulshan, in front of Pizza Hut),
music in another store in Gulshan.
2.3. CNG or rickshaw.
2.4. I generally wake up at 10am, then I have classes at 11 so I have to be there. After classes I
hang around with friends and cousins in Dhanmondi or Gulshan in their homes or in cafés
(rarely). I go to my cousin’s home (where I am also staying) around 9pm and watch movies,
play video-games and go to sleep at 2.30am.
2.5. On week-ends I sleep longer, till 1pm, and I spend the rest of time at my cousin’s. we don’t
have many recreation options, we generally go for long drives on the highway, listening to mu
sic, or to restaurants.
2.6 I have lots of friends who are childhood and school-friends, but also playmates. We hang
around, play pool, go to different places by car or rickshaw. I have some girlfriends but it
is difficult to spend time with them because they are not allowed to hang around after 8pm
and can’t go to pool-houses. In our culture it is basically difficult to approach a girl you
don’t know, she has to be a common friend, otherwise we would never go and ask her
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“how are you?”. We can meet our girlfriends in restaurants and shopping malls, or in other
friends’ houses.
3.1. I feel I do belong to Dhaka, but this depends on the people living here, the Dhakaiya. They are
friendly and open, like companionship and can gather in congested places without minding.
3.4. there is a difference. Dhakaiya have another accent, their food is better, they are closer with
their families, they actually have often joined families and work in family businesses. Set
tlers are just common, they don’t have any particular feature.
4.1. I go only on Fridays, to Shanti Nagar Majid
4.1.a never though about that
4.2. we visit all relatives, especially the eldest, and eat a lot. In the afternoon I get a little bit of
breath and I can go and see friends.
4.3. Not really, I don’t like to go in the crowd mainly because of my sister, I am afraid for her be
cause she could be harassed and I would have to defend her. I would join Bangla New Year
with my family, but I never went to Ramna Park for that, we just stay in the streets.
4.4. Restaurants and Café Mango, friends’ houses. I actually have a band, we have played together
for 5 years, so we regularly meet to make music. I like to play pool, we often go to various
pool-rooms, there is plenty of them in Dhaka, between Dhanmondi, Banani and Gulshan. I
used to play basket at school and also at the Dhanmondi gym, but I quitted because my
friends also did, it’s for younger boys.
4.5. Puran Dhaka. There is the nicest food, the accent people speak there is different, it is more
multicultural (due to Hindus living mainly there). People know each other. I like to go
there.
4.6. I discuss with my uncle, but I am not involved because it is no worth to in Bangladesh.
4.8 Paltan – the BNP office. Maybe also AL’s one in dhanmondi 27 (actually 32!!!). But I am not
interested.
Banani , 29.11.06
1.1. Farah Guznavi
1.2. female
1.3. unmarried, one child (brother’s daughter, adopted)
1.4. 30-40
1.5. university
1.6. Muslim
1.7. Free-lancer (development expert, columnist)
1.8 As I am a free-lancer, I also work in Baridhara, from home, although I regularly have to move
especially to Dhanmondi, for work and other reasons as well. Most of NGOs and similar of
fices are located in Dhanmondi, whereas I do not need to move much for my journalistic work
because I just work on a e-mail-base (offices are concentrated in Kawran Bazaar/South of Te
jgaon).
1.9. Bharidhara (permanent address), although we have another in Delduar
1.10. Own (parents’) house
1.10a We have lived in Dhanmondi in my childhood, then Gulshan and Banani. These neighbour
hoods didn’t have any sense of community, except maybe Banani where we spent time with
friends.
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1.11. In Baridhara I like the quietness of the streets, in the afternoon you don’t hear any traffic, but
only the blowing of the wind. At dusk it gets loud again because of the neighbours coming
back from work.
1.12. My personal income is between 20, and 50,000Tk. (Family’s more than 80,000Tk).
1.13. I lived in London for 6 years.
1.14. I was actually born in Karachi, but grew up here. We are living in Baridhara since 1986.
2.1 FOOD: I do not shop for that, because it is done by others for us. Occasionally, I would go to
Agora. CLOTHES: Years ago I used to go to New market, but since traffic has increased I
just buy them in Aranya (Banani) OTHERS: Words and pages (Gulshan 2) for books, Aziz
Supermarket for good Bangla books (although it is too far away and I thus go there rarely).
2.3 BY CAR, I would never go by bus because they are too crowded and people could touch you.
2.4. I’m out of home by 10 o’clock and go to Dhanmondi for medical therapy and work. Due to
these regular trips I spend long times in the car, which I use to think and look the spots I
like on my way, like Manik Mia Avenue, the parliament, the trees in Pantha Path, the fly
over with the weird billboards... During those car-trips I have once more the confirma
tion of the fact that anything can be the reason to look at anybody, I see that in the pen
etrant looks from the window of another car... these easiness to show our lives and emo
tions is actually typical, we Bengalis are emotional, sentimental people who almost enjoy
romantic sadness. We celebrate that also in the city, take for instance a young boy in the
park, singing and exhibiting his emotions publicly, without inhibition, even if he can’t. This
actually saves the city! I generally spend the afternoon in Aranya and try to see some
friends everyday. Thus, I work in the morning and night. I spend the evenings with my par
ents or going out.
2.5. I use the weekend not to go out and relax, staying together at home with my family. Friday is
the day of visit of our friends to our place. Sometimes, in the last period, I join my family who
decides to spend the week-end in our home in Delduar on Fridays. We have a good lunch and
enjoy the tranquillity, reading, talking, etc.
2.6. 75% of my friends are women, 25% men – I think because I have a very strong gender con
sciousness. My friends are developers, human rights experts, activists, most of them have
been my friends since my 20es. I have no more childhood friends, they generally left the
country. One of them, nevertheless, is a newspaper-editor, I also work for that magazine
and we have been friends for the last 30 years.I don’t like people who don’t like to be
Bangladeshis.
2.9 My room is my house, my world. The security problem has increased and this naturally affects
our trust and presence in public space. My sense is that, through general change of society,
I feel less secure. Still, I wear the urna only to go to the village or to New Market (!!!). I re
gard it as more comfortable to be a woman during events than in the everyday-life, then
there is a justification to be on the streets. But going out because you have to manage
things is different. There is a change, too, politically also, due to the garment industry
which employs mostly women. This is normalising the fact of being there in a larger num
ber. Despite it is still difficult, we are beginning to make ourselves more space. There is a
park, Gulshan Park, I go to. For going there you have to observe some rules, which make it
a safe space for everybody, for women alone too.
3.1. I left London for Dhaka saying “I don’t want to live in a city anymore!”. Dhaka is my city, my
home, it makes me mad but I still love it. I miss the Dhaka of my childhood and youth, because
it was safe, for example even as a girl (not a boy) I could go around by bike in my neighbour
hood, also before Baridhara. Since 10 years later it is not possible anymore. Dhaka’s landmarks
are important emotional places to me, they build my “sense of residence” I feel attached to, in
spite of strange and changed things. There are things to see in Dhaka, which is its attraction po
tential. For me it’s the people living here, whose habits and ideas I like to look at.
3.4. No, Dhaka has his way of taking you over once you have chosen to live here, due to which
your loyalty automatically shifts in favour of the city. The only difference can be in the
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knowledge of the city, if you have been born here you’ll have an organic relationship with
Dhaka. But as you can become a Londoner, you can become a Dhakayt.
4.1. I do not practice, I am secular in my belief
4.1.a Ramprisha Mission (near Motijheel), Dhakashari temple (Hindu temples) and the Mirpur
shrine. I like latter because their celebrations are very exciting. I love being in European
cathedrals, the wide spaces.. I don’t know if there is anything like that in Dhaka. Maybe the
mosque near BRAC, in Mohakali?
4.2. We are not a typical family, we do not celebrate Eid. Of course we receive visits of friends and
relatives – or visit them - in the evening and morning. My parents encouraged me to join
Hindu pujas, so I have been in many of them in past times.
4.3. Yes, my identity as Bengali is there!!! On a regular basis. I have a great fun seeing people stop
ping on their cars due to the demonstration. On 8 of March it is wonderful to take over the
public space with positive energy, only among women, with maybe a couple of men.
4.4. My home is the meeting place, but we also often meet in working place or in fast-foods –
whatever is near to the office. We meet and gather 50% of time outside, in non-universally
accessible public places, 50% in private. We used to go to a small restaurant near the air
port. We used to go for a walk to Asulja or Boshundara Lake for the dog, but now it is rare
due to my parents’ age and my health condition.
4.5. Savar monument as a focal point for events, and Dhanmondi Lake. I like that place, the atmo
sphere and the huge number of people.
4.6. I ask friends, or read the news and watch BBC
4.7. It’s normal and necessary as a woman to take part in demos, in particular for women’s rights (8
March), but now I despair a bit and try to do things which make a difference, like writing
articles. Last time I have taken part in a demo was when the Americans bombed Afgh
anistan, there was a demo around Dhanmondi lake. Ramna Park is a traditional area for
demos.
4.8. Should be the parliament, but it is rather the cantonment and some key-homes in Dhanmondi,
Banani, Bharidara where decision-takers live.
Dhanmondi Leisure Lounge , 27.11.06
1.1. Nargis Ahmed
1.2. female
1.3. married, 2 children (24,20) who are studying in Europe
1.4. 40-50
1.5. higher secondary, “handelsdiplom”
1.6. Islam
1.7.Administration officer
1.8. Dhanmondi
1.9. Dhanmondi, on the lake. Temporary address. We own another apartment in Dhanmondi, but we
sub-rented it because we needed a bigger one.
1.10. Rented flat, 26,000Tk
1.10a Indira Road and Dhanmondi
1.11. Our children’s school were in Dhanmondi, today I find it practical that my office is in Dhan
mondi. And I like the community. For my husband it is a little bit far away, he works in
Gulshan and has to go there every morning by car, bit it would be anyway too expensive to live
there.
2.12. 20,-50,000Tk
2.13. Not in Bangladesh. I have lived my first 13 years in Dhaka, then my parents had to move to
Karachi and Islamabad, then due to the war we moved to Switzerland where my mother
already had gone to live (she’s Swiss and had divorced from my father). We stayed in Switzer
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land for 9 years, I made my studies there, and then I came back to Dhaka to join my father in
1980. I got married and 1981 we moved to different Asian metropolises for my husband’s pro
fession.
2.14. 1991, after 10 years abroad.
2.1 FOOD: I send my servant to the kaja bazaar, sometimes I go to Agora or Almas, mostly to other
small shops on Mirpur Road, where they know me and I know them. For CLOTHES I go to
Chadni Chawk and New Market for the textiles, I buy my sarees in boutiques like Banglar
Mela, but also in shopping malls or New Market. OTHER items like books are available in
Etcetera, I find decorations for the home at New Market and tea-sets in Elephant Road. I don’t
really like shopping malls, it’s not that I would hang around there, I only find them practical for
buying something very quickly.
2.3. BY CAR (we have one and the other is my husband’s office car)
2.4. I go to work by 9.30am, I go home for the lunch-break at around 2-3pm, making also some
shopping in New Market, then I go back to office. After work I generally join any invitation to
somebody or to some events, or I just go home.
2.5.My husband is at home so we enjoy our home, on Friday we often invite people for din
ner, so I am busy preparing food, myself and the home. When my son was still here, his friends
would also come and I would prepare some sweets for them. Sometimes we go to some exhibi
tions, theatre or so, and I visit my father (this has anyway to happen at least once a week), or
some friends. If there are cultural events at DU Campus I join them with my father who was a
teacher there.
2.6 Some are my childhood’s friends, some are the parents of my children. In general I don’t have
many friends because so many of them moved, due to the political events of the country or
to their professions. Most of them live in Gulshan, we are in the same age. I am also friend
with the women of the environmental group. I have to say that I can’t mix much with
people of Dhaka, which is due to the long time I spent abroad, both during my studies and
afterwards. So they have often connections and common memories I can’t share. In that
sense, I don’t feel a real Bangladeshi. This is also the reason why I don’t have any friends
who are not from and in Dhaka, because not having gone to University here Icouldn’t mix
up with different people.
2.9 Women find space in coffee-shops like this, but most of older women just make visits in private
homes, avoiding public spaces. They may go for lunch or dinner to someone’s house, some
relatives’ generally, maybe accompanied by some son or relative. I think that the difference
is that men work, so they have to go out and this necessarily affects their presence in public
spaces. Still a little number of women work, so they don’t need to go out, although the gar
ment workers, and women from these classes are going out much nowadays. Well-to-do
women go by car and that’s why it’s difficult to see them even when they go out, we don’t
feel safe on the street. Maybe it’s the fact that women are more vulnerable, I would never
dare to go out on the street by my own. But I guess it’s like any big city, danger is every
where.
3.1. I belong to Dhaka. There have been a lot of changes in the city, but I know the roads, people
know me and I don’t feel a stranger like in other cities. Whether I like Dhaka? Yes and No. No,
because of the crowd, it used to be possible to move around by rickshaw but nowadays you de
pend on cars, jams make your life difficult sometimes. Yes because it is my city where I have
my roots.
3.4. I don’t know, I think that especially the new generations are going out of the country and
bringing other influences so that there is nothing like a typical Dhaka-dweller and not a
typical Bangladeshi villager...
4.1. I don’t pray, although my husband and children do. My husband goes to mosque, but I don’t –
even if I would like, I couldn’t because there are very few mosques where women are al
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lowed. And women are expected to stay home preparing lunch and taking care of their chil
dren on Friday morning. I am not too religious, maybe because I have lived long abroad.
4.1.a I never think about that.
4.2. Eid in Dhaka. Juniors go to seniors, so I go to visit my father, and some come to my house to
see my mother in law who lives with us. We generally take lunch at my father’s house in
Mag Bazaar. In the afternoon and evening we have time to visit friends and other relatives.
4.3. Bangla New Year of course! I go to the University Area, but I have to say that we used to do
much more, also inviting someone to our home for those celebrations, now we are less act
ive due to crowd and traffic. We also avoid Shahid Minar, it is too crowded on Language
Day. But we go to the festivities and events on the open-air theatre and around Dhanmondi
Lake, it’s near and we like those.
4.4. I would like to walk, but there is no time to reach adequate places to do that. It could change
now that my children are abroad, I will see. I take yoga classes and in the evening or week
ends I may go to some restaurants in Gulshan (Pizza Hut, Bella Italia, Thai Restaurants..). I
rarely go to cafés, it would be necessary that some of my friends have time and I have it,
too.
4.5. University Area for the youth. Otherwise New Market?
4.6. I am involved with an environmental group, Dhanmondi Poribesh Unnayat Joint, to save
Dhanmondi’s environment from encroachment and building of illegal schools which just
cause a lot of traffic to us, the dwellers. We meet every Saturday in a small office in Road
27 and organise different seminars (we may invite advisors, architects and educators to
speak about specific topics), or actions in case of some specific protest or awareness-build
ing campaign. This is the way I am involved socially, although the government has always
refused our help up-to now. I have less trust in politics.
4.7. I have gone a lot of times on the streets of Dhanmondi with banners and posters to protest
against buildings and melas which destroy our environment, calling other dwellers to ac
tion and involving them.
4.8. Government’s officers’ quarter (Topkana Road)/ executive, University
Gulshan 2, 15.12.2006
1.1 Gigi
1.2 male
1.3. married, 2 adult sons abroad
1.4. 50-60
1.5. university
1.6. Christian
1.7. Diplomat
1.8. Gulshan 2
1.9. Gulshan 2 since their arrival in Dhaka
1.10. Rented house, 70,000Tk a month
1.11. It is more planned though open space and recreation facilities are lacking. Another important
advantage is the proximity to the embassy, which Gigi could theoretically reach by bicycle, and
to shopping facilities. Gulshan 2 as a neighbourhood is also more safe from political agitation.
1.12. more than 80,000
1.14. 2005
2.1 FOOD: bakery in Banani (Road 11), kaja bazaar near Gulshan 2 –market (Gigi goes there),
Agora. CLOTHES: Aarong (Gulshan), Aranya (Banani), Houdini (Banani) OTHERS:
Aarong Gulshan 2, Aranya, Gulshan 2 –market, word of pages (Gulshan 2), but also Bailey
Street for sarees and cloth.
2.4. wake up in the early morning to be at work at 9, work till 5, sometimes it takes longer due to
conferences or meetings. I generally come back for supper, anyway I have it with my wife. In
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the evening, we often go out for meeting friends or to the International Club. PAOLA: I wake
up with my husband, do some housework (we have one cook but I personally take care of the
housekeeping), and work also for a development project in the field of traditional textile handi
crafts. I go for shopping and for meeting some friends, have dinner with my husband.
2.5. In the weekends, we often go outside of Dhaka to visit friends in their hometowns or for tour
ism. We also often leave the country to visit friends in India. We generally take lunch at Inter
national Club or with friends. We would go for a walk to Boshundara along the former lake
(which is now being filled up by real estate companies).
2.6Friends we generally meet are colleagues, that is diplomats and other professionals from abroad.
Our Bangladeshi friends are intellectuals and people interested in arts, with whom we can
gather and discuss.
2.9. there are less women because of preponderance of Islam, although we can state that India is
not much different. Women’s space is apparently the home, for Bideshi women it’s the
clubs and private homes as well as shopping malls, which we reach mostly by car (with a
driver).
3.1. We do not feel any belonging to Dhaka, but since we are living here for professional reasons
we try to make the best out of it. It’s not that we LIKE Dhaka, we rather try to cope with it.
Due to our experience in India, this city suffers the comparison to Delhi, where there was
plenty of facilities, a bright cultural life and mixing with the local population thanks to com
mon interests was easier. Here it is more difficult to make friends, although we have a good net
of friends, because Dhaka’s inhabitants are culturally more close.
4.1. Sometimes to church in Tejgaon
4.1.a temples and mosques of other religions
4.2. We generally leave the country to India
4.3.We avoid Bangladeshi festivities, but we would visit Shahid Minar on 21 February (Language
Day)
4.4. With friends and colleagues, Bangladeshis and Bideshis, in the evenings of working days and
on weekends, in their or our homes (sometimes International Club). There are, rarely, con
certs taking place, which we of course join.
4.6.Embassy/ Club
4.8. Parliament??
Dhanmondi, November 2006
1.1. Nashreen Iqbal
1.2. female
1.3. unmarried
1.4. 23
1.5. D (university – completing graduation in pharmacy)
1.6. Muslim
1.7.Student (English medium) in a private university
1.8. University is in Dhanmondi, now I am making an apprenticeship in a pharmacy in Gulshan.
1.9. Dhanmondi, permanent address
1.10 Own house
1.10a We have lived in Mirpur but had to move because the environment was not good enough.
1.11 I like everything in Dhanmondi! Certainly my parents’ priority by their choice were the
schools, where we would have better classes, and the best teachers. But for me all that counts is
that my close friends are all here, and the most important thing for girls like us is that Dhan
mondi is a good place to make shopping. Restaurants are better in Gulshan, but I prefer to
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make my shopping here. And it is less congested than other areas. I am proud to be a resident
of Dhanmondi, it’s a top area.
1.12. 50-80,000Tk
1.13. We lived in Mirpur and had to move because it was too dangerous.
1.14. I was actually born in Bahrain, but we moved here when I was four, that is 1987.
2.1 FOOD: I wouldn’t go to kaja bazaar, I don’t know them and they are too congested, my mum is
afraid and I am afraid too that some men would burden me. The kaja bazaar is dirty and
smelly, especially the fish market. Shopping must be easy! Anyway my mum makes the
shopping, I prefer to go to shopping malls where I trust myself. CLOTHES: I like going to
boutiques in Dhanmondi, but I also shop in Banani, in Road 11 which is also a place I can
find some cafés and bakeries. I often go to shopping malls, actually. I shop once a week.
OTHERS: Shopping malls
2.3. I always have to go by car, not only to Gulshan, also to university.I can’t go by rickshaw alone.
2.4. I get up at 7, prepare to go to university, I and my sisters go to our universities/school by car by
9. I stay at university till 5, sometimes till 7. When I come back home I relax watching TV and
talking with my mum and sisters, then around 10pm we have dinner with our father. We watch
TV, talk on the phone or listen to music till midnight, then go to sleep.
2.5. In the week-end I like to stay home and have a long sleep, often till in the afternoon. On
Thursday or Friday evening I am allowed to go out with friends in some restaurants in
Gulshan. Sometimes we go to someone’s home and chat there, if I know that I go in a private
party, then I can wear jeans and T-shirt...
2.6 I have close friends and colleagues from school and university. My mum is also my friend. Of
course my friends know me better than her, they know my secrets as I can share them much
easier with them. I have a request that the life-standard of my friends is the same/ as high
as mine. I am friendly with everybody, but I wouldn’t mix up with everybody if they have
another standard – for example with students who don’t come from Dhaka, living in sub
urbs (Naranganj..) or in neighbourhoods I don’t even know, they are , sometimes they don’t
have a car and have to come by public transport! ..they are economically not so well-
placed, that’s it. It was a shock to me when I first had to learn to interact with them. It’s
through university that I learnt to cope with all kinds of people, it changed me much. Now,
these students are my friends in the everyday-life, but not nearer.
2.9 I would meet rather at home with my girlfriends, it’s more cosy – but also a café would do.
These are spaces we feel comfortable, we dislike open spaces.
3.1. Dhaka is my first reference, I identify myself as a Dhakayt rather than a Bangladeshi, because I
grew up here.
3.4. There is a difference between settlers and people born and brought up in Dhaka. Even if they
live in a big house, their language is more colloquial, or they speak dialects which are dif
ferent from ours and difficult to understand. Mentality is very different, we are urban, they
are much simpler, we are materialist, have much higher demands on life, they don’t ask
much. They are conservative, too, send their children to Bangla medium schools where
boys and girls are separated, for us it is normal to be mixed. Rural people don’t eat fast-
food, they prefer traditional food even if they have money to afford it. And they don’t have
much taste for clothes, they aren’t trendy, not classy. Also people from Old Dhaka, actually.
4.1. I pray at home, our teachers thought us how to do that from home since our childhood. One
teacher also thought me how to read the Quran, it is important to know it. Women don’t go
to mosque in Bangladesh.
4.1.a I can’t think of any other holy places, we don’t go to any mazar like the High Court Mazaar –
I don’t even know where it is! I regard those things as superstitious.
4.3. No, I am not allowed and not interested, too.
4.4. In recurrences, I meet friends in restaurants in Dhanmondi or Gulshan, but they can also come
to my place so they can enjoy my mum’s food. I have a small friend’s circle, boys and girls.
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Familiar recurrences are also important, we gather in our home or at our uncles’ and aunts’,
for example in occasion of anniversaries and birthdays. Cafés are actually Dhaka’s only re
creation for young people like us, we have one cinema in Boshundara City, but nothing
more. We don’t have public spaces, Dhanmondi Lake is awful! Environment there is bad –
so many poor, unhealthy people. I would never go for any boat trip there. I don’t walk on
the streets, actually, because environment is not my standard. Standard? It’s where people
like us are. Coffee World, Café Mango, Kosmo Lounge, GNC (Dhanmondi), PM Lounge,
Boomers, Efes, Topkapi (Gulshan)... these are the places I like to go.
I am not allowed to go for trips out of Dhaka, some of my friends have a car and they invite
me, but it is not good for girls to go. We are allowed to go to Asulja.
4.5. Shahid Minar and Dhaka University?
4.6. Since now I am in the age to vote, I also speak about politics with friends, talk about political
events. I read the newspapers, too, often with my parents. But since I go to a private uni
versity, people around me don’t bother much politics.
4.7. NO! We are more concentrated in our studies. Students at Dhaka University are due to commit
to some party, even to get a place in a dormitory there it is necessary to take position for
one party – generally the ruling one. In Dhaka University or other public universities
people would answer differently, they are too much involved. Politics is a nasty thing in
our country, I don’t want to see it!
4.8. Don’t know.
Dhanmondi Road 14 , 2.11.2006
1.1. Nargis Iqbal
1.2. female
1.3. married, three daughters Female
1.4. 50-60
1.5. university
1.6. Muslim
1.7. Housewife
1.9 I live in Dhanmondi, in our own house, but we have another 7 in Dhaka, which we sub-
rent.
1.10 Own flat
1.11. I like to live here, it is a sophisticated area and less dense than other neighbourhoods,
it is convenient for business and shopping, and of course it is a safer area to live. Actu
ally it has changed much in the last years, it has become louder, noisy, and the traffic is
huge – there are so many schools and clinics... this creates the traffic jams. Beside our
house, there was a open space till 1996, but then they started building a hospital. Pri
vacy goes destroyed like that...
1.12. 50-80,000Tk
1.13. We lived in Barein some years, then we came back and also lived in Mirpur but we
decided to move because it had become too busy and criminality was really high.
1.14. Since 1982, I came from Jessore for school and university. Then I married and moved
out for 5 years, we came back in 1987
2.1. I go out for big shopping less than once a week because I buy lots of things at once,
then I only have to go to kaja bazaar, which I still do personally although I would
never allow my daughters to. FOOD: Mohammadpur’s kaja bazaar (no kaja bazaar
in Dhanmondi, Khala Bagan or Green Road are farer), New Market for rice and
fruits, Agora, Sukrabat Bazaar for chicken and other meat. CLOTHES: Aarong,
other boutiques in Gulshan/Banani for ready-made clothes, New Market and
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Gauzia Market for textiles. I enjoy going to the market and bargain and look for
new textiles and styles...OTHERS: New Market
2.3 I go by our own car, alone or with my daughters if we go to boutiques, but not to kaja
bazaar nor to New Market.
2.6. I have some school friends, but many are mothers of children who go to school with
my daughters. We may go together for marketing, do some shopping, or share re
cipes, we mostly talk about food. I try to avoid jealous people, I just say hi and bye
to people who are too proud of their richness. I don’t like when people make com
parisons between classes. All of our friends are middle class, like us. Some among
our friends are Hindu, some are Christian – religion is not a reason to decide whom
to make friends with. One of our neighbours are Hindu, we exchange food during
Hindu and Muslim celebrations. I don’t have much idea of the poor’ life, but I have
poorer relatives in Jessore. We give them some help. There are some slums near our
house, I know our mosque gives them some help and we also gave some blankets
for those people, but I never entered a slum, I don’t have the time for it, and in fact
I’m not a social worker! My husband also gives charity to mosque every month, for
poor people.
3.1. I can live well in Dhaka, I would never go back to Jessore. Dhaka is Bangladesh’s cap
ital city, everything is here, we have the best features and best education facilities for
our children.
3.2. For study.
4.1. I pray home, women don’t go to mosque in Bangladesh
4.2. I mostly invite our relatives to our home for any celebrations. But we go to my older
sister in Dhaka/Monipuripara for Eid and other familiar recurrences (she is a very
experienced cook). For smaller celebrations like anniversaries, we go to restaurants.
4.4. I spend my free-time at home, sometimes in the market. Rarely, I would take a tea out
side with some friends, in Dhanmondi.
4.5. Savar, national Museum, Old Dhaka/Lal Bagh
4.6. I am not interested in politics
4.8. Political power... Parliament, Banga Baban
Alliance francaise, Dhanmondi, 1/12/06
1.1. Pratim
1.2. male
1.3. married, one daughter
1.4. 40-50
1.5. university
1.6. Islam
1.7.Banker (standard chartered)
1.8. I work in Motijheel
1.9. I live in Green Road in a rented flat, though we have 2 other houses in Dhaka, one in
Old Dhaka (Rogonadashleh??) and one in Mirpur (Pallabi)
1.10. We pay a rent for the flat, which costs us 17,000 a month
1.10a I was born and grown up in Dhanmondi, we also lived a short time in Mirpur
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1.11. I like to live in Khala Bagan because my family and friends live here. It is safer, I feel
at home and confident also to walk or jog in the night.
1.12. more than 80,000Tk
1.14. My grandfather’s father moved to Dhaka.
1.13. In London, Dubai and Madrid. I also lived in all Bangladesh’s northern cities for pro
fessional and personal reasons.
2.1 I don’t buy anything regarding FOOD and CLOTHES, my wife takes care of it. Some
times I go to New Market, Bailey Road and Stadium Market for other goods (music,
books...)
2.2. I only go once a week to Gulshan, mainly due to traffic jam because otherwise I would
like to go there more often, because some of our relatives live there. I also have relat
ives in Old Dhaka and Mirpur, they also like being visited once in a week or so. I actu
ally used to hang around between Gulshan, Banani and Dhanmondi all in a night, but
nowadays it costs me too much energy and time because of the traffic, and because of
my family.
2.3. BY CAR, CNG if I am alone
2.4. 7.30 getting up, work by 9 o’clock till 5.30pm, then I go home, spend time with my
mother, wife and daughter. Sometimes, around 7.30, I meet with friends in some café in
Dhanmondi. Around 9 I go to play soccer where I also meet friends, we are done by
10.30pm and then I go home, where I stay with my mother and wife till midnight.
2.5. I don’t go out in the morning, afternoon and evening of Friday. We (my family) go out
for lunch or dinner on Saturday, and in the evening I do some socialising with friends
or other relatives, sometimes with my wife, sometimes alone.
2.6 I don’t have friends among my colleagues, but I have some childhood friends and some
of new date. I meet them at drama events, galleries, private events in homes. All of
them are professionals and come from Dhaka. According to my religion, which
says “if you give something to someone with the right hand, the left hand doesn’t
know about it”, you have to be discrete when you help someone. I am near to vil
lage people, I speak to rickshaw-wallas, CNG-drivers and with people running
small shops, from whom I get an idea about their lives.
2.9 Society in Bangladesh is conservative, although it is getting more open thanks to the
female work in industries and other institutions. 10 years ago, only 10% of them
would work, now it should be at least 30%. Women have their space in their home
or in their friends’ homes, and there is a shop (Prabartana) where only women can
go to and which also functions as a centre for women. Students can of course find
their place in the Campus, which is ruled by different norms. Anyway I think that it
is unsafe to be around in town late at night (after 9pm).
3.1. Dhaka is a second mother to me. Since I was born here, it’s my home, and although I
have been in many cities, I am always homesick far from Dhaka. Much has changed
and not always or never in a more positive way, but memories hold me there. I like the
typical Dhakayt openness, unless they were open, people could not have stayed here (in
comparison to those who decided to migrate and not to come back). Dhakayts? One is a
Dhakayt when he has lived here more than 1 generation.
3.4. A Dhakaya loves his town, a settler loves his house.
4.1. On Friday morning in Green Road
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4.1.a Not really, my concept of religion is different. I am devoted to Islam, but religion is
individual, so I don’t go to religious gatherings or celebrations.
4.2. We spend those days in Dhaka, or we may go out in the countryside with my whole
family.
4.3. Yes, Bangla New Year is very important, we always join there. It’s my heritage, I also
go to Shahid Minar for Victory Day and Language Day.
4.4. Evenings, but I don’t live to go to some places, I live to enjoy my time, also in the
home. If I go out for dinner or in the evening I just go to Kosmo Lounge or Voot in
Dhanmondi, sometimes to Alliance, or to some other restaurants in Gulshan.
4.5. You should go to Gaptali Bus Station to get an idea about the present situation in the
country. Dhaka does not represent Bangladesh, because it is a primate city, people
comes here just to make money, they are cleverer and better. Dhaka is also the most
dense area in the country, actually a mess. The poorest and richest, the cleanest and
dirtiest place are here. Therefore, Dhaka is too extreme to represent a national aver
age, while the rest of the country is neglected. Anyway, there is no history for
Dhaka in the last 30 years, thus it is also difficult to define an identity.
4.6. I speak with friends in private sphere, but I don’t take part actively in politics. I don’t
think the way politics is handled here could do any good for people.
4.8. It was Dhaka University, a real incubator for revolutionaries, for instance it was the
students who contrasted and defeated the military regime. But this changed in the
last 10 years, corruption has taken over politics at DU, too, since students’ leaders
understood they could make money out of their engagement.
Mirpur 6, November
1.1 Suraiya
1.2. female
1.3. married, two daughters Female
1.4. 40-50
1.5. D (university)
1.6. Islam
1.7. Researcher
1.8. I work in Banani.
1.9 I live in Mirpur 10.
1.10 This is our own house which we built with statal incentive.
1.10a Yes, we moved a number of times. First we lived in Motijheel, in the TNT staff quarter, then
in Paik Para near Mirpur 1, after it we moved to Azimpur in the government staff quarter, now
and since 2000 we live in Mirpur 6.
1.11. We actually didn’t choose Mirpur to live there. As a middle class family we didn’t have too
much money but we wanted to have our own house, so we had to buy some land. The land we
bought here is government’s land (Mirpur Housing), we had to apply for it in 1985, 10 years
later it was available bit littler than we had asked for, and thus we bought it. Practical is, that
the rest of my family lives here (my husband’s family lives in India). Also the logistical infra
structure is good, as well as the area as a planned area is nicer than others.
1.12. 50,-80,000Tk with my and my husband’s salaries and the rent from the other apartments
(10,000 each).
1.14. I was born in Dhaka
2.1 FOOD: in general, middle class families try to shop in those kind of shops where you can find
anything, and of course proximity is really important in comparison to earlier times when
one would have gone to specific markets for specific items. My husband goes to the kaja
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bazaar behind our house, I go to New Market because I am accustomed to go there since I
studied and worked in the Campus, even nowadays I like to go there, especially for heavy
shopping, and as my daughters also go to school and university at/near Campus we can
normally go there together. Since Mirpur 6 has been developed and there are the facilities I
also go for shopping here, it doesn’t change in quality or price. CLOTHES: also New Mar
ket and Gauzia Market. But I never buy sarees for myself, they come as presents for celeb
rations. OTHERS: New Market.
2.3 We go to New Market by car, also to pick up our daughters, but for the everyday shopping in
Mirpur we just go by foot. to work, by car with a colleague’s car, or by bus and rickshaw
through the cantonment.
2.4. I work from 9-10 in the morning till 5-6. Immediately afterwards I come back home, if there is
no other thing like visits to my children’s schools or any meeting/seminar. There is anyway not
much cultural life to enjoy or to go to in Dhaka, drama or other art exhibitions are rare. And
even then, the security problem is a issue, if I would have a son he could accompany me, but
having two girls it is risky, so we are always home within 10/10.30pm.
2.5. Sometimes we go out in case of family gatherings or invitations. Otherwise I do the housework
and go for shopping I couldn’t manage during the week.
2.6. I have a core-group of 4 friends (3 women and 1 man) whom I don’t meet regularly, though.
We go out for dinner or lunch once in a month. Sometimes we stay at one’s of us, some
times we go to a restaurant. We were colleagues at Centre for Social Studies. Through my
work I have contact to people of different income, because I am monitoring a research-pro
ject together with very poor people. We work together and have a good relationship, we
call each other also beyond professional reasons. It is also due to the fact that I like to join
them in the village and I don’t feel as a donor but as friend to them. As my husband is lib
eral, he doesn’t mind if I go out by my own and if I have male friends. It’s not a problem,
to me, to talk with men.
2.9 As a woman, you can find your right to have your space in the Campus, where people behave
differently than in other places, and women can feel free. You can express yourself, move
freely and see different things than in the rest of Dhaka. The Campus made me the Suraiya
I am. I think women are less present in the streets because they work at home and thus they
don’t have to go out like men in order to reach their working place. Nevertheless, many
started to work nowadays, and I think this is changing things a lot.
3.4. Yes, there are some differences. Settlers have a root outside Dhaka, so they cannot become
completely urban, at least in their first generation. And there is a difference in mentality,
too, for example, Dhakayts look more after education and income for the broom, whereas
in the village they look for lineage.
3.1. I have a feeling for Dhaka, I love it. whenever I leave it, I miss it. Dhaka is near my mind and
heart, I can’t imagine to live somewhere else – this, despite the changes of the whole city,
and despite the frustration I sometimes feel about them. I remember when Dhaka was
known for everybody who lived there, the roads were known to people, and it was quite.
4.1. I don’t practice
4.1.a. This is not an important issue for my life
4.2. Since my husband’s family is in India and the relationship is loose, we stay in Dhaka where my
family lives. We actually have no option to go outside of Dhaka, although I would like to
have a place in a village, also for my daughters, especially when they were children. We
generally spend Eid at my mother’s house, we gather there all day with all my brothers and
sisters. After lunch, our daughters may go to their friends’ houses and we may go back to
receive more visit, which actually begins at 8 in the morning and goes till night.
4.3. Of course Language Day! We go to Shahid Minar in the morning since it is more secure than
going there in the night celebration, still we didn’t manage every year in the last years as
we were afraid of terrorism. Bangla New Year is also an important event which we observe
going out – to Ramna Park – in the early morning. For Victory Day we used to go to Savar
because of the children, when they were small, now we left it. I want to commemorate the
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8 March, it is important in Dhaka. Generally, I attend some seminar and then go for a pro
cession near National Museum.
4.4. There is not much open space to go to in one’s free-time. Parks are used for prostitution, they
are insecure and polluted. People don’t think it is worth to go to the park, they prefer to
roam around by rickshaw or car. Myself, I sometimes – once in a month - go out with some
old friends, we like to explore new restaurants. Shahid Minar is the most ideal public space
in Dhaka, it is accessible to all, its historical meaning makes it a powerful space which
people feel. That’s a real pubic, not only political, space. Lots of art and social programmes
still take place there, people can express their joy and sorrow there. It is a civil gathering.
We would need more places like this in Dhaka, as Shahid Minar is too crowded at times.
But of course it cannot be replied.
4.5. I think that to have an idea of Bangladesh it is better to choose an event than a place in Dhaka.
And in that case I would take the 21 February because it represents our recent history and
you can really observe how people move in space. Otherwise, the Liberation Museum in
Savar is a representative space, and as literature and art speak for us, too, I would also
think of the Bengal Foundation Gallery in Dhanmondi.
4.6. I used to inform myself in the centre for social studies where I worked for long time, nowadays
in my working place, although we can’t discuss much because the consensus is less broad,
my actual colleagues have more varied opinions than in CSS.
4.7. Sometimes, if I have time. I used to join many more demos when I worked in the Campus,
now that I am working in Banani the distance is an issue. But I want to, especially for is
sues of human rights.
4.8. Officially, it’s our parliament, but during the last period it was Zia’s office and BNP or AL head
offices. At present, due to the caretaker government, it’s the president’s house. Also, there
is a strong political power in one area, the Campus. All movements have started and start
there.
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NAME GROUP GENDER AGE RELIGION SACRED SPACES 1. 2 3 4IDENTITY 1 2 3 PLACES 1 2 3 POWER 1 2 3 CONGREGATION 1 2 3 INFORMATION 1 2 3
ABU 1M 2 ISLAM 4 2 Ramna Cantonment 7 Paltan 1 6 7
ACHIA 1F 3 ISLAM 4 10 3
AMIR ALI 1M 5 ISLAM 10 6 2
BIBI MORIOM 1F 4 ISLAM 10 4 3 1 7
BOKUL 1 F 4 ISLAM 4 10 6 1
FATEMA 1F 3 ISLAM 4 4
FAZLUL HUQ 1M 5 ISLAM 2 2 7 7
FULBANU 1F 5 ISLAM 3 3 1 7
HORIDAS 1M 5 HINDU 1 7 8 11 3 4 1 3 6
JOHORA 1F 4 ISLAM 3 8 10 3 1
KAFILUDDIN 1M 5 ISLAM 2 7 5
LAKI 1F 2 ISLAM 4 3
MANNAN 1M 4 ISLAM 2 10 5 7 7
MITHU MIA 1M 2 ISLAM 6 2 6 Shahid Minar Dhanmondi 7 9 7
NESAR AHMED 1M 1 ISLAM 2 6 3
PANNU 1M 2 ISLAM 2 10 6 6 1
RITA 1F 4 HINDU 1 4 8 3 1
SHIMA 1F 2 ISLAM 4 2 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
SHOVA 1F 1 ISLAM 3 4 1 7
A. HAKIM 2M 4 ISLAM 4 4 7 Paltan 1
ABUL 2M 4 ISLAM 4 3 Paltan 2 7
JASIM 2M 1 ISLAM 2 3 1
JUI 2F 2 ISLAM 3 8 1
Md. HAQUE 2M 3 ISLAM 4 6 7 Shahid Minar
Mohammad Selim 2M 4 ISLAM 4 3
PARUL 2F 3 ISLAM 4 3 2 Paltan 5
RAHIMA 2F 3 ISLAM 4 3 1 7
SHAHABUDDIN 2M 4 ISLAM 2 7 5 1
Sukumar Das 2M 4 HINDU 1 11 3 1
TOFFAEL 2M 2 ISLAM 2 3 Ramna 2 Paltan 7
Wahidur Rahman 2M 3 ISLAM 4 3 2 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
ZAHANARA 2F 3 ISLAM 4 10 6 Shahbagh DU Campus 7 Paltan
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
2
ANOWER 3M 3 ISLAM 2 4 7 10 4 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar 3
ARIF 3M 3 ISLAM 2 4 6 7 9 Shahid Minar Cantonment 66
ARUP 3M 2 ? 2 12 10 1
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
Paltan 4 6 7
AZIZ HASA 3M 2 ISLAM 2 3 3 Savar
Shahid Minar
Martyred Intellectuals
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
Paltan 4 56
FAISAL 3M 2 ISLAM 2 7 Ramna Shahid Minar 4 Paltan 7
FATEMA 3F 2 ISLAM 4 10 3 1
JAHURUL 3M 3 ISLAM 2 7 Shahid Minar Ramna 4 1
MINHAZUL 3M 2 ISLAM 4 6 Ramna Shahid Minar 8 6 7
MOSTARY 3F 5 ISLAM 4 3
PARVIN 3F 2 ISLAM 2 3 7
PINTU CHAKMA 3M 1 BUDDHISM 1 7
POPY 3F 2 ISLAM 3 3
RUSSEL 3M 1 ISLAM 2 7 2
SAGOR 3M 2 ISLAM 2 6 DU Campus Shahid Minar 2 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar 1 7
SAHABURT 3M 2 ISLAM 2 8
TSC/DU Campus
Ramna 2
Ramna Park/Dhanmondi
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
6
SAIFUL 3M 2 ISLAM 2 7 5 7 Ramna
Cantonment
Airport 4 Paltan 5
SAMAD 3M 4 ISLAM 2 3 7 1
SHAFIQ 3M 2 ISLAM 2 5 3 1 6 7
SHILPI 3F 2 ISLAM 3 3 7
SIKANDAR 3M 4 ISLAM 4 2 8 4 1 7
ZAINAL 3M 4 ISLAM 2 8 10 1 6 7
ALAL 4M 2 ISLAM 2 6 7 6 7
ALEA 4F 3 ISLAM 3 6
BIKRAM SHAHA 4M 4 HINDU 1 11 6 2 6 7
JAMAL 4M 4 ISLAM 4 6 7 1 6 7
JOYANTA 4M 3 ISLAM 4 12 3 3
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
Paltan 4
KOUSIK 4M 2 ISLAM 3 2 6 Shahid Minar Dhanmondi 7 Paltan 2 6 7
LIPI 4F 2 ISLAM 13 7 3 3 2 6 7
MAMUM 4M 2 ISLAM 2 2 7 Paltan 2 57
MASUD RANA 4M 2 ISLAM 2 7 1 2 7
MICHAEL RIO 4M 3 CHRISTIAN 5 7 4 Shahbagh Dhaka Stadium 3
NASIMA 4F 3 ISLAM 3 3 2 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar 1 6 7
ROKSANA 4F 2 ISLAM 12 8 Shahid Minar Parliament 2 6 7
SHILPI 4F 2 ISLAM 4 3 2
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
Paltan 7
SUBRATA 4M 2 HINDU 1 3 7 11 3 Dhanmondi Siddeswari 5 4 1 6
SUMI 4F 2 ISLAM 13 2 Ramna 7 Paltan 2 7
TANVIR 4M 1 ISLAM 2 8 Ramna Shahid Minar
TONIMA 4F 2 ISLAM 3 6
TOUHID 4M 2 ISLAM 2 9 4 4 6
ASIK 5M 2 ISLAM 2 8 6 7
BITHI 5F 2 ISLAM 3 9 9 1 7
CHOBI 5F 2 ISLAM 4 2 Art College/Shahbagh
EMDADUL 5M 5 ISLAM 2 3 6 7
Fatema Parveen 5F 4 ISLAM 14 3 6 3 8 4 1
HARISA 5F 4 ISLAM 3 7 12 9
JISAN 5M 2 ISLAM 2 3 6 5 1 4
KHADIJA 5F 2 ISLAM 3 6 7 10 Parliament Savar Paltan 7
MEGHNA 5F 4 HINDU 4 7 11 14 7 63 1
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
Paltan 4
NAZMIN 5F 3 ISLAM 4 9 67
OLIVER 5M 2 CHRISTIAN 5 3 Church
DU Campus
Ramna/Dhanmondi
ROMANA 5F 2 ISLAM 4 9 Shahid Minar TSC/DU Campus 1
RONY 5M 2 ISLAM 4 4 Shahbagh 4 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar 4
SALAHUDDIN 5M 4 ISLAM 2 11 6 6 63 1 2 6
SHAHANA 5F 3 ISLAM 4 6 6 7
SHANEEL 5M 2 ISLAM 2 3 3 Ramna 4 1 2
SHARIAR 5M 3 ISLAM 2 7 14 10
Banga Bhaban
TSC Ramna 2 3 6
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
3 4 5
SNIGHDA 5F 4 CHRISTIAN 3 5 3 2
TUMPA 5F 2 ISLAM 2 3 7 Ramna 1 2 7
FARAH 6F 3 ISLAM 2 1 11 4 3 DU Campus 1 2
Ramna Park/Dhanmondi
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
2 6 7
FAYEZ 6M 2 ISLAM 2 3 9 4 2
FAYZAL 6M 4 ISLAM 2 4 6 3 1 4 1 2 3
GIGI 6M 4 CHRISTIAN 1 2 5 3 Shahid Minar 1 1 3
NARGIS AHMED 6F 4 ISLAM 2 4 10 Ramna
DU Campus
Dhanmondi 5 3 Ramna Park/Dhanmondi 3
NARGIS IQBAL 6F 4 ISLAM 3 9 7 61
NASHREEN 6F 2 ISLAM 3 6 7 2 Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar 2 6
PRATIM 6M 4 ISLAM 2 10 Ramna Shahid Minar 3 2
Suraya Begum 6F 4 ISLAM 4 1 2 7 Shahid Minar Ramna DU Campus 1 3 4
Shahbagh/Campus/Shahid Minar
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