Culture and Heritage

Bagha Mosque, Rajshahi — Five Hundred Years in the Language of Clay

flic.kr/p/2sdnyXT About forty kilometres from Rajshahi city, tucked among mango groves and riverine landscape, stands this mosque — built in 1523, one of the finest…

The Living Silence of Pompei

flic.kr/p/2scdrDV Walking the Via dell’Abbondanza in Pompeii feels less like tourism and more like trespass — an intrusion into an afternoon that never quite ended.…

DOCHULA: WHERE THE MOUNTAINS KEEP THEIR SILENCEDochula Pass, Bhutan | 01 October 2024

The mountains were not visible that day. Lubna and I reached Dochula in the morning hours of October. From Thimphu, it is barely an hour’s…

Limping Toward Stillness

flic.kr/p/2s8cRjj World Peace Pagoda, Pokhara | October 22, 2023 The ankle had been twisted for two days. Each step up the hill was a small…

Tajhat Zamindar Bari — A Story of a Crown, Written in Stone

flic.kr/p/2s6VLRF In the green fields of northern Bengal, where the Ghaghat river flows quietly alongside, a palace once rose to the sky — not merely…

Heritage: Tajhat Jamindarbari

flic.kr/p/2rXHqvq Tajhat, Rangpur, Bangladesh on January 24, 2026 with Sony A7R5

Rural Portrait

flic.kr/p/2rW35F3 Khulna, Bangladesh on December 06, 2022 with Nikon Z7

Sompur Mahabihar

flic.kr/p/2rVmc8d Paharpur, Naogaon, Bangladesh on December 28, 2021 with Nikon Z7 The thousands of terracotta plaques that decorate the walls of Sompura Mahavihara feel like…