Abu Saleh Munnah

Personal JournalKhulna, Bangladesh

Abu SalehMunnah

Home in Khulna, desk in Dhaka, and a passport that keeps collecting stamps. This is where I keep the rest.

Abu Saleh Munnah
KhulnaDhakaWindow seatLong drivesSix stringsSalt airQuiet ambition
The short version
Abu Saleh Munnah

04

Countries stamped

270

km home to desk

Roads still unopened

I collect places, not things. 

I am Abu Saleh Munnah. Khulna is home — long afternoons, loud rain, and the sound of a guitar being tuned badly in the next room. The work is in Dhaka, which means a good part of my life happens somewhere on the road between the two.

The rest of the time I am trying to be somewhere else entirely. Most of what I care about on those trips is small: a window seat, the first cold minute of a beach at sunrise, the particular quiet of an airport at four in the morning when the whole world is still deciding what to do next.

Everything else — the office, the paperwork, the plans I am not ready to talk about yet — happens in between. This page is simply where I keep the parts worth keeping.

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Chapters

Four things that keep showing up. 

Departures
01

Departures

Terminals, boarding passes, the half-hour before take-off. Whether it is the Dhaka flight or something much further, I like the leaving almost as much as the arriving.

Six Strings
02

Six Strings

A rooftop, a guitar and a sky that is still deciding whether to be blue. Nothing recorded, nothing posted — just played.

Open Road
03

Open Road

Khulna to Dhaka and back, headlights on an empty stretch, one long playlist. The clearest thinking I ever do.

The Desk
04

The Desk

The unglamorous half. Paper, deadlines, the slow work that makes the other three chapters possible.

Passport

Stamps, so far. 

Base in Khulna, desk in Dhaka, and a bag that is never fully unpacked.

  • 01

    Bangladesh

    Khulna · Dhaka · Cox’s Bazar

    Home
  • 02

    Singapore

    Changi

    2024
  • 03

    Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur

    2024
  • 04

    Brunei

    Bandar Seri Begawan

    2025

More pages to fill, in shaa Allah.

Some days you chase the horizon. Some days you just sit with the sky. Both of them count. 
Abu Saleh Munnah
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