User:Ashna333/Urban Bohemianism in Dhaka

Dhaka is a city where one can find various types of people from different cultures. Urban bohemianism is a part of that. Inside this city there is a group of people who follow the lifestyle of a bohemian and they represent a personal, cultural and social reaction to the bourgeois life.

This bohemianism gets status from the 1990's in Dhaka city. During that time many people were seen in various places of this city who like to live a life as they want, they never bother about any laws of living as a general people of the city. A lot of people regarding them are living as subversive, elitist and possibly just a little bit immature than the general people. These bohemians are typically urban, liberal in outlook, but with few visible political passions and, above all they are very much creative. This group of people used to sit or meet in places like Charukola (College of Arts), Aziz Super Market, and TSC (Teachers Students Committee).

The people who follow the bohemianism are especially artist, literary men, or actor, who leads a free, vagabond, or irregular life, not being particular as to the society he frequents, and despising conventionalities generally. As a result many artists have come out from them and they are also influencing today's generation towards bohemianism. This type of people mainly has interest on singing, painting, freelancing photography, journalism, etc. They are also researching on various topics like Lalon. Some jewels who are now famous in the city like- Arnob(singer), Sanjib(Singer), Hasan Masud(journalist/artist), Mustafa Sarwar Faruki(Director) are examples of urban bohemianism in Dhaka. They used to have a life like bohemian and now they are becoming very famous for their merit and their different lifestyle. They are now idol to the young generation and making Bangladeshi culture richer. Bohemianism most of the time brings a bad meaning as many bohemians have become vagabond but in many cases it can be also said that they are right in their ways like those examples stated above.

Day by day urban bohemianism is getting popularity in Dhaka city and mostly young generation of this city is very much likely to live a life like that. From a deeper thought it can be said that urban bohemianism is attracting people because of its sense of sacrifice, sense of purity, sense of a burning mission, of giving up things and these sense a general person hardly holds.

Urban bohemianism practice in Dhaka city is receiving appreciation from different sectors of Bangladeshi culture. This will bring a new image of Bangladesh towards the world. These urban bohemians should be influenced rather criticizing and that will give Bangladesh some new faces of people who will brighten the country's name.