female-drivers

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will recruit drivers for the ‘Women’s Bus Service (Pink Bus)’ launched to ensure safe and comfortable transportation for women. The organization has arranged ‘walk in interviews’ or direct interviews to recruit a number of female drivers on a temporary basis. The preliminary selection test for driving will be held for three days from August 30 to September 1 at the BRTC Central Training Institute in Joydebpur, Gazipur. Candidates have been...

In 1978, Golapi, the central character in the film Golapi Ekhon Trene, boarded a train. In 2026, pink buses for women are taking to the roads of Dhaka. Nearly five decades separate the two scenes. One takes place on a movie screen, the other on real streets. One involves a character named Golapi, the other a pink colored bus. Yet somewhere between the two lies a long line tracing the journey of Bangladeshi society. In one, there was a poor woman who took to the road to earn a living. In...