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Memories, cultural imaginations and Dhaka


How do cities like Dhaka in the throes of frenzied development deal with memories and literary depictions in the process of their transformations? Are there any provisions for considering abstractions like memories and cultural imaginations in the planning of cities? Are cities not imaginations as much as they are real? Baudelaire s Paris, Eliot s London, Joyce s Dublin, Fitzgerald s New York, Mahfouz s Cairo, and, more recently, Amitav Ghosh s Kolkata, and Suketu Mehta s Mumbai are all testament to cities recreated in the virtuality of literature.
I have long wondered about literary Dhaka. How did cultural imaginations of this city shape our perception and experience of it? I slowly understood Dhaka s cosmopolitanism, magic realism, historicism, melancholia and urban absurdities. For a long time, I struggled to ask the right questions about the meaning of this city s quintessential chaos, intensity, congestion, and beautifully infernal urban density. This is a city that nar ....

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