Tag Archive for: Bangladesh
Banarasi Handloom, by Ashik Masud
During the partition of 1947, some 125 families migrated to Parbatipur of Rajshahi district, and to various areas of Old Dhaka, Becharam Deuri, Kazi Alauddin Road, Kaiktuli, Tanti Bazar, Doyaganj and Gandaria from Benaras in India. They brought…
To Victory by Shahnaz Parvin
16th December is our victory day, the victory of red and green. The color red in our national flag represents the 3 million people who were brutally killed by Pakistani Army in 1971. And the color green represents the ever green Bangladesh.…
Ordinary Life by Shahnaz Parvin
In the middle of endless rice paddy field, I saw a small bamboo hut and few children inside it. It was a sunny, humid day; their parents were working nearby, and they were there to get relief from the sun. I was watching them for a while, and…