April 24, 2013. A hartal (strike) prevented me from traveling outside of Dhaka so  I decided to visit Korail, the largest of Dhaka’s informal settlements, by taking a tuk-tuk and then crossing Gulshan Lake by boat. Three million people are estimated to live in Dhaka's slums.It turned out to be the same day that, in another section of Dhaka, Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1100 people.  The world focused its attention on issues of building standards for factories.  But where was the attention on the living conditions of people who lived in Dhaka’s slums?Dhaka has the highest population density of any city in the world. There are times when it feels that you ...