Dhaka, Bangladesh is breaking records again, the same type of records which are mostly of no use.
Yes, there are good records too, but over here the bad records easily tower over the good ones.
We've just hit new highs for hot and rising temperatures in Dhaka, that too in the month of Ramadan. Here it is in the latest HOT News. It's absolutely ridiculous right now, with a lot of load-shedding, people having to fast for 14 hours straight, no water, no food; yet, miraculously most of the city dwellers are still somehow maintaining their fasts.
ᴵᵐᵃᵍᵉˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵒᵛᵉʳᵃˡˡ ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵉⁿᵗ ᵃʳᵉ ᵐʸ ᵒʷⁿ ᵘⁿˡᵉˢˢ ᶦᵗ'ˢ ᵐᵉⁿᵗᶦᵒⁿᵉᵈ
Even though during Ramadan my diet and set of activities are all fairly decent and well maintained, this year things aren't going as planned. My diet is still alright I'd say, but there is no activity of fitness, it's just a loop of heading out for work if needed, coming back home, my irregular praying habit, and just my messed up sleep routine.
Funny thing is, all this heat, the rising temperatures, load-sheddings and what not, it's all just getting started. Summer isn't even here in full force yet lol.
On Friday during Jummah prayers we had a huge crowd outside of the mosque, it's Ramadan after all, so it was a bigger crowd than usual. Half of the people had to pray under the mercilessly scorching sun during the afternoon, when it's usually the hottest time of the day. I unfortunately was among the people who were seated outside. It's nothing new with our local mosque, it's still under constructing and so far has only two floors that can be used for prayers. The third and fourth floors still require a lot of work, so it's going to be this way for quite a while.
After about 30 to 40 minutes of praying under sun and it's temperatures of over 40°C on that day, my health hasn't been too well. I've been facing heavy nose bleeds daily, walking around with a hot and heavy head, my eyesight is a bit blurry too. I think I'll be fine in a day or two, but because of this heat I really can't think straight.
Alas, if this goes on with our country and city, with all this deforestation and urbanization, then it's all just going to get worse. I don't plan on leaving the country, not at the moment at least; yet, as every single day passes by, this little country of ours is becoming uninhabitable.
We got so busy focusing on modernization that we completely forgot to preserve our very unique and green attributes, and because of that we're now having to suffer.
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money" - Chief Seattle