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Eight years ago, in May, a large crowd staged a sit-in at Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, Istanbul s bustling public plaza in the downtown of its European side. People wanted to save the park s 600 trees that would soon be cut to clear space for a massive Ottoman-style shopping mall. What started as a local environmental movement quickly snowballed into a national agitation against heavy-handed government tactics.
The Gezi Park demonstration also revealed something fundamental and even universal: people s ecopsychology the emotional connection between humans and nature. When that connection is severed, humans feel pain. A growing body of research indicates that contact with natural environments contributes to improved health and psychological wellbeing. This is particularly evident in dense urban areas.
First metro-train set to reach Mongla port next month
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will reach Uttara rail depot on April 23 as a ship carrying the train set
will leave Kobe port, Japan for Mongla tomorrow.
“The third-party trial run of the train set has already been completed and
a ship carrying the set is heading towards Kobe port from where the train
will be sent to Mongla port on a mother vessel, Managing Director of Dhaka
Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) MAN Siddique told BSS here today.
According to the project details, integrated tests of the Mass Rapid
Transit (MRT) Line-6 will be carried out before formal operation and the
On the verge of historical amnesia
Kamalapur Railway Station. Photo: Collected
It is a bewildering phenomenon to see the continuous onslaught on historical buildings that represent our heritage and our past. The recent decision taken by the Prime Minister s Office (PMO) to demolish the historic Kamalapur Railway Station building to make way for the MRT-6 line is a prime example of this trend. Bangladesh Railway (BR) and Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) have reached a joint consensus to move the current railway station 130 metres further north and turn the present area into a multimodal transport hub (MmTH). It should be addressed that the initial design for the MRT-6 line was from Uttara to Motijheel. It was in 2019 that the DMTCL devised a new plan to stretch the MRT-6 line directly to the Kamalapur Railway Station. If the design can be changed once, it can be changed once again, if the government is willing to preserve a structure that has been a part of our national he
At the heart of the ongoing debate on the potential demolition of TSC and Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka is an old philosophical dilemma how to progress while retaining some loyalty to history, a key concern of many 20th century philosophers, such as Paul Ricoeur. The relationship between progress and history could easily be reduced to one of hostility. If progress or modernisation is seen as a one-directional march towards an improved state of life, things that presumably represent history may be considered impediments to it and, therefore, their removal is justified in the name of progress. What is denied in this falsely simplified equation is the possibility of a symbiotic relationship between progress and history.