Barely three bookshelves with broken doors, shattered glass panes scattered all over the floor and damp cobweb-ridden walls such is the scene inside Farashganj’s Johnson Hall, also known as Lalkuthi.
Once upon a time, it used to mark the terminus of the largest city of undivided Bengal; currently it lies uncared for, surrounded by bushes, covered by posters, in a shadowy corner of Dhaka University campus.