Dhaka, Bangladesh

A photographic video presentation covering 81 markets visual of Dhaka . The live bits events were held as 80+1 tour around the Dhakai markets by Siraj and his team.

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The Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) Department of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB, http://www.ulab.edu.bd ) hosted the Bangladesh component of the 80plus1 “A Journey Around the World” on September 7, 2009, between 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the…

Rifle Square is a modern shopping center situated in Dhanmondi next to the BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) cantonement. The name Rifle Square is derived from this proximity to the BDR Camp. This modern shopping center is also located opposite Dhanmondi Lake.…

Jatiyo Shangshad Bhaban is the national Assembly Building of Bangladesh. It is the political centre of the country. Construction of this building started in 1961 and finished in 1982. This building was first used in 15th February 1982. Before this…

BCS Computer City is the biggest computer market in Bangladesh. The mall opened in 1999 with 100000 square feet of space, situated at Agargaon, She-e-Bangla Nagoor district of Dhaka City. There are 322 modern computer and accessories shops located in…

The previous name of Jatrabari was Brammonchiron when the best way of reaching this place was a water vessel. In the past, when there was no TV, cinema and electronic entertainment media, the Jatrapala (local Bangla form of drama) was…

Apartment, schools, colleges, offices and institutions in Dhaka are increasing to meet the needs of the rapidly the population of Dhaka City. To fulfill the need for house and interior decoration many furniture markets have been built in different parts…

Kawran Bazaar is the biggest and most famous wholesale general market in Dhaka City. All kinds of vegetables, fish, rice and other commodities are supplied to the small markets from here. At the end of eighteenth century Kawran Singh, a…

The Krishi Market is situated in the under developed suburb of Mohammadpur in Dhaka City. The Krishi Market is famous for rice wholesaling. Once the area was considered as a crime zone but now through a government initiative the situation…

Mohammadpur and Lalmatia are closed to the developed area of Dhanmondi but they have some way to go before they rival this major suburb. The area is still largely underdeveloped although most of the local people are middle or lower…

Dhanmondi road no 27 expressed the aristocrat, liking and consumerism of Dhanmondi, a very important place and first growing developed by the building developers. Along with series of apartments huge number business and shopping centers has been established which distorted…

Bashundhara Mega Mall is the biggest shopping market in South Asia. It is regarded in Dhaka as an ultra modern shopping centre, situated on Panthapath, a major thoroughfare of Dhaka City. This modern shopping mall emerged from a project to…

Rajdhani Super Market is the best-known market for women fashion products of the Dhaka City. Mostly middle and lower middle class woman frequent it as all type products; household commodities and cooking utensils are available in the market.

Covering a huge…

Hazaribag in old Dhaka is famous for the tannery industry, although the tannery industry is facing a struggle to survive nowadays but until recently it was a good business for foreign currency earnings. The Leather Technology College of Bangladesh is…

The area is a part of Dhanmondi close to the Mirpur Road. It is the business area and includes a number of shopping malls and centers but there is only one proper market close to Subhanbag mosque. However, within the…

Rayer Bazaar City Corporation Market was built in 1965. It’s a historical and traditional market of Dhaka City. This area is named Rayer Bazaar following the name of the bazaar although the location has another name, Sultan Ganj, which is…

Nijam’s Shankar Plaza is situated opposite side of the famous Chayanot Cultural Building, beside Satmasjid Road. This seven storied commercial building was built in 2003.

A small shopping market can be found on the first two floor of Nijam’s Shankar Plaza.…

Dhanmondi to Mohammadpur

The Satmasjid Road links Dhanmondi and Mohammadpur directly, from Rifle Square to the Mohammadpur bus stand. The road not only links two areas but also in reality two distinct lifestyles. The inhabitants of Dhanmondi are comparatively rich, well-educated…

Bangladesh became independent in 1971 after vicious civil war in which millions of lives were lost. During the Pakistani period, Bangladeshi people were persecuted and exploited in all aspects of life and politics. After the liberation of Bangladesh, a huge…

In 1994 the children’s recreational park named Shishumela (Children’s Park) was established opposite the ASHA Tower in Shamoli. This park opens every day at 11:00 AM and closes at 10:00 PM. Entry fee to the park Tk.20 per head. There…

The Shamoli general market is very new and has grown dramatically since it was established three years ago on the east side of Shamoli Club Field. Three years before it was built the local people were dependent on the street…

Mohakhali is an important and busy area in Dhaka city. Many important offices and institutions are located here. Mohakhali Bus terminal is one of the important terminals of Dhaka city. Every day thousands of people, particularly from greater Mymensingh region,…

Sukrabad Bazaar is adjacent to the historical Road 32, Dhanmondi where the residence of the founder of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujiba Rahman, is located. Bangabandhu (Father of Nation) was murdered here, together his family members, on 15 August 1975. The house…

Chandrima Uddan is situated beside the National Parliament of Bangladesh. The park has always been popular but it became more so after it was decided to bury Ziaur Rahman the late Bangladesh president here. The former BNP government built a…

Farmgate is a busy focal point in Dhaka City. It has been an important market area since Dhaka began to modernise. Bus, CNGs and rickshaws connect Farmgate to all important places in Dhaka City. It is, in short, a major…

Islam expanded in Bangladesh with the mission of mystical the spiritual leaders Pir Murshid and Pir Aulia, who came from Paroshoo (Iran and Iraq regions) in the Middle East particularly from They were enlightened and devoted Sufis.

Although they was Muslims…

After independence the first government of Bangladesh gave priority to the objectives of the independence war and tried to create an environment that recognized the millions gave their lives in patriotic sacrifice. Today the Bangladesh government still gives a monthly…

Banarashi and Jamdani are examples of the world finest Muslin cloth, which are of the proud of Bangladeshi heritage of weaving. Banarashi is an artistic, immaculately hand made sari cloth which is generally used for creating Bengali women’s wedding dresses,…

Most streets of Dhaka, except some areas of the new Dhaka, have a street market operating to meet the daily needs of the nearby inhabitants. Although the markets are officially illegal they provide an important service as well as a…

Mirpur-10 is not officially market but an avenue with four roads connecting it to the major suburbs of Dhaka that is densely packed with shops, plaza, hawker stalls and street food vendors. The area is generally known as Mirpur Gulchokkor…

The Bangladesh government established the Haji Camp in1998 to accommodate the large number of Muslim pilgrims traveling between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. Haji Camp Bazaar was established just opposite the Haji camp at the same time as…

Within one decade Uttara has become as busy as the main city, Dhaka. A large number of modern shopping centers and high-rise buildings have been established in the downtown area. Mascot Plaza is one of the better-known modern shopping centers…

North tower is the most up market shopping mall of Uttara. This is a twelve-storied tower with the first six floors used as shopping mall and the rest used as offices for a variety of companies. This is the biggest…

The modernization of Uttara began about twenty years ago with the establishment of a few modern shopping centers. The Raj Laxmi complex, owned by the famous Bangladeshi film star Nayok Raj Razzique was one of the first modern shopping centers…

Dhaka city is expanding in all directions due to its ever-increasing population through migration from the country-side. Most people don’t have the ability to buy land in main city but have a desire to live in the capital. As a…

Gulshan is the center of upper class Dhaka city as well being the main expatriate area, housing most of the embassies. Consequently Gulshan Market caters for this clientele with lots of foreign product on sale.

Generally the market sells high quality…

Although Badda stands just besides the aristocratic Gulshan area it is not fully developed and remains an old-fashioned Dhaka market where life style, culture and infrastructure are distinctly old. Moreover the bazaar seems to have been by-passed by modern communication…

Rampura is famous for housing the BTV (Bangladesh Television), the national broadcasting television’s head office, which is a major landmark in Dhaka. Rampura has become an important business and residential area. Although the roadsides area are decorated with different shops…

Banani is an elite area of Dhaka city where marketing, life style and shop contents parallel the developed world. This area is based on luxury consumption and is full the head offices of global companies, private universities and school as…

Nawab, Subadar, Amir, Umara, Jaigirdar created many gardens (bagan) in Dhaka city in the Mughal period. They appointed many mali (gardens) to take care of these gardens and to make flower garlands. The mali lived in together in this area,…

The down town “Khilgaon” area was just like the countryside until the establishment of the biggest flyover bridge in the country, which changed the appearance of the area dramatically. Khilgaon Bazaar is situated just near the Khilgaon Rail crossing, which is always fearfully crowded as many hawkers open their stalls along the railway.

Globalization and modernization, have had an impact on Dhaka city architecture. This can be seen in the design of markets and the market motif, manifested in consumerism as a life style and a culture. Within the past few years many shopping malls have been established and global brand products have become widely available, which in turn has an impact on the quality of local products. The modern markets and the products they sell are the most obvious examples of the influence of the West on contemporary urban Bangladesh.

With the change of time and the increasing population more markets are required in Dhaka city. The northern part of Dhaka except the Gulsan and Banani has not yet developed the necessary infrastructure to create a modern market culture and…

In the Mughal period the name of Shahbag was Bag-E-Shahenshah. It was hard to pronounce. In the British period the name was changed into Shahbag for easier recall.

This area is famous for many important institutes. Bangabondhu Medical College Hospital, BIRDEM,…

‘Eastern Plaza’ was established in 1990 on the famous ‘Shunargoan ’ road. This is the first multi stored ultra modern shopping center built in Dhaka city. However, there are now many attractive shopping malls competing with Eastern Plaza for customers,…

Hatirpul Bazaar is situated on the northern border of Dhanmondi thana. Although this is a small Bazaar it has historical significance. People say that in British period ( until 1947) local landlords used this place as an elephant farm, hence…

Elephant Road is situated on the north side of National Science lab. The middle point of Elephant Road is known as Bata Signal because a big Bata show room is the landmark for this part of Dhaka. There are also…

Aziz Super Market of Shahabag is situated nearby the National Museum. It is an apartment cum commercial complex and having 14th floored building. First three floor and under ground uses as commercial place and the upper rest part is apartment…

Nayapolton is one of the important business area in Dhaka city. There are lots of shopping markets, shops, showrooms, banks, political party office, cinema halls, media centre, community centers hotel and high-rise apartment building.

Polowel market is the most famous market…

Baitul Mukarram gold and watch market is the biggest jewelry market of the country. The part of ground floor and first floor of the market is jewelry and watch market. All famous gold importers and ornament makers of the country have show-room in this market. Since Pakistan period this market started and is becoming.

Dhaka stadium market refers to the Banga Bondhu National Stadium Market, Maolana Vashani Stadium Market and Swimming Pull Market. These three markets are much closed. Vashani stadium market & Swimming pull market are two stored and Banga Bondhu stadium market is three stored. Stadium market is mainly famous for electronics products.

Baitul Mukarram is the national mosque of Bangladesh. It is situated beside General Post Office of Bangladesh. (GPO). The architecture of Baitul Mukarram is very modern resemble to Mecca. It is an eight stored building. It is a center of…

Kamalapur Railway Station is the central railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the largest railway station of the country, however the most important terminal for communication between Dhaka and whole Bangladesh. It is also one of the most modern…

Motijheel ( Commercial Area ) is situated at the heart of the Dhaka city. Motijheel thana was established in 1976. The General Post Office of Motijheel is considered the zero point of Dhaka. Motijheel is close to the Kamalapur railway…

Gulistan is very familiar and busiest street in Dhaka city. Gulistan means garden of flowers. Although there is no any flower garden but have Gulap Shah’s Shrine ( majar ). From street to multistoried build every place of Gulistan is market. The road always busy with street selling, continuous moving of rickshaw, bus, bike however moving of restless men and women.

Siddique Bazaar is famous for whole sale shoe and seeds sale market. There are more than 2000 shoe shops. Ladies, genes, kids all kind of shoe and sandal sale here both with retail and whole sales price. This is one of the biggest shoe and sandal whole sale market of Bangladesh.

Kaptan Bazaar stands beside Gulistan in old Dhaka. This is very old market in Dhaka city. In 1940 this Bazaar was firstly established and named was Thatari Bazaar. In next in Pakistan period many captains of ship from Sadarghat came…

The live presentation is by the livebits artist Shahjahan Siraj over skype. He talks with the audience via the MC at Linz Avenue’s screening session. The presenters asked questions on the objective, research finding, present trend and traditions of Dhaka…

The biggest cloth market of Bangladesh is Islampur Cloth Market. This market started from British period with few shops. In Pakistan period this market expended step by step. After independence of Bangladesh this cloth market fully established as the biggest cloth market of the country.

Bangshal is famous for bicycle. From here Bicycle supplied all over the countr. Bicycle spare parts shop also available here. Bike shops especially spare parts of bike shops are available here. This is another famous this of Bangshal. Retail and hole sellers of the country collect bicycle, bicycle spare parts, bikes spare parts from Bangshal Market. There are many importers and some famous electronics brand company’s show-room. Beside these stationary, grocery, vegetable, meat, steel shop, building materials shops are available here.

Thatari Bazaar is situated in old Dhaka beside Gulistan. This is the oldest market of Dhaka city. This bazaar established about 150 years ago. Once here lived Kashari (maker of metallic pots and pitchers). When they made metallic pots and pitchers it makes high sound (thas thas) and that is why this bazaar named Thatari bazaar. In past this place was residence of Hindu people.

Sadarghat is stands In the bank of Burigonga River. It is only one report of Dhaka Metropolitan, however the busiest river port of Bangladesh. From here the stemmer and river vehicle runs around the country, particularly linked with Barisal, Vula, Shariatpur, Khulna, Patuakhali etc Southern coastal districts of Bangladesh.

Babu bazaar is the most famous whole sales rice market of Dhaka city. The new extension of Babu Bazar known as ‘Naya Bazaar’ ( new bazaar). It is situated in the old Dhaka in the bank of the Burigonga River. This is the main rice source market of Dhaka city. There is no retail selling shop; only wholesales buyers can buy rice. There are more than 300 rice shops.

The name “Bangla Bazaar” itself having the name of Bangla Language name and spirit. Bangla bazaar is one of the most famous book market of Dhaka city. It is situated in old zone. Maximum books of Bangladesh has been published from Bangla bazaar.

Shankhari Bazaar, the name itself is inheriting glory of shankha art. Once the Shankhari Bazar was famous as the place of art. The traditional Shankha industry is now struggling for survival. Fighting with Indian products, excessive prices of raw materials;…

Laxmi Bazaar cover the area of Bahadur Sha Park. It is famous for rickshaw art, repairing, street market and gathering of rickshaw puller of old Dhaka. In the street restaurant the rickshaw puller takes food with low priced food however…

Chak bazaar is one of a famous market of old Dhaka. As a whole sales market people knows it’s by name. It was established on 1947 under the private ownership. All owners of shops make Bazer shomitee in together. Total…

The name Nilkhat comes from the “Nil” cultivation of English colonial period. Here may once was cultivated Nil and named of the place Nilkhat ( Nil + Field ).

However in the modern Dhaka Nilkhat is famous as booking and printing…

New market is one of the famous & old markets in Dhaka city. It was established in 1958 by Dhaka City Corporation. It has two stored building with in triangular shaped. There are about 480 stores in this market. In the center of new market has a beautiful mosque. Home & family products, shari, cloths, shoes, books, stationary, jewelers, fast food, electronic products, kitchen products are available here.

Leave it to the (presumably male) Dhaka police force to come up with a novel way to counter the rise of theft in their city: cross-dress.

According to a report from the Agence France Presse, Dhaka police officers have recently been…