You are not booking a company. You are booking me.

Who I am

I grew up explaining things to people who had never seen them.

I am from Brahmanbaria, out near the eastern border, and I now live and work in Dhaka. Before I ever guided a foreign visitor I spent years teaching — running science and astronomy sessions for school students from families like mine, where nobody had been to university and nobody knew what was possible. Most of that work was not teaching facts. It was taking something that looked intimidating from the outside and making it feel like somewhere you belong.

That turns out to be exactly the job in front of a traveller who has just landed in Dhaka.

Bangladesh gets described abroad in two ways, and both are wrong. Either it is a disaster headline, or it is a blank space between India and Myanmar that nobody has an opinion about. What is actually here is a delta of a hundred and seventy million people, some of the warmest hospitality on the continent, five hundred years of layered architecture, the largest mangrove forest on earth, and food that deserves to be as famous as Thailand’s. Almost nobody comes to see it. The ones who do tell me it was the most interesting country they have ever travelled in.

My job is to close the gap between those two facts — one visitor at a time, safely, with nobody getting overcharged or lost or frightened on the way.

What I am actually good at

Reading a room, mostly. Knowing which rickshaw fare is fair and which one is a test. Knowing that the shopkeeper who said yes meant no, and telling you so afterwards. Knowing when Dhaka traffic will eat two hours and routing around it. Knowing which kitchen in Old Dhaka I would take my own mother to.

And being genuinely, boringly reliable. I answer messages. I turn up early. I track your flight. If something goes wrong at ten at night, I pick up the phone.

• Fluent English, native Bengali, working Hindi — interpreting in meetings, markets, hospitals and interviews
• Comfortable with cameras: crowd handling, access negotiation and location scouting for creators and crews
• Used to professional visitors — schedules, discretion, and knowing when to be invisible
• Will travel to any of the 64 districts with you, and has the logistics to make that painless

The rules I work by

These are not marketing lines. They are the four things that decide whether a guest has a good trip or a bad one, and I hold myself to them on every booking.