Historical Place of Bangladesh: Pictures of Sonargaon-5

Historical Place of Bangladesh: Goaldi Mosque (Sonargaon)

Pictures of Bangladesh: Pholela Boishakh 1414, festive day for the Banglee

Today is 14 April 2007, it the first day of Banglee. In Dhaka city, the day observes in a different way. Chayanot is a leading cultural organization of Bangladesh. It organized the cultural programs to celebrate this day. At the beginning of the program its song the song of Robindra Nath Tagore ‘Eso he Boishakh Eso.’ They start the song at the time of sunrise.

Different kinds of cultural organizations arrange cultural programs. People attend this program in a celebratory mood. Men, women, boys and girls ware the traditional dress.

Some are drowned tattoo in their face. Some people eat Panta Bhat (rice mixed with water) with Hilsa fish.

In this day another astrictive thing is fair. In this fair, the shopkeeper bring the traditional thing.

Pictures of Dhaka city: Advertisement of Dhaka city (Euro Cola)

This advertisement is given by one of the famous soft drinks company. I took this picture form one of the busiest places in Dhaka City, Malibag. The women in the advertisement is one of the most famous model and arties in Bangladeshi electronic media.

Pictures of Dhaka City: Advertisement of Dhaka city (Djuice)

In Dhaka city, there are many sign board are hanged. Some it looks colorful also attractive lighting in Dhaka City. But this ad is different from all others because its language is different.

In This sign, the sentence is Duniya ta mosto boro. I have told that it is different. Why is it different? The advertisement has written my English script but the sentence is Bangla.

The advertisement is given by Djuice which is the part of Gremeen Phone.

Flower Seller Girl in Dhaka City

Dear viewer you can see a child in the picture. I took the picture from shahabag at 11AM the date was 10 March 2007. After winter the spring has come and the sun become Sitting on the Traffic Island in the hot sun the child was selling the flowers.

In this age she was to go to school and to play with her companion. But she needs to seek her daily food and also for her family.

Parliament of Bangladesh (Samshad Bhaban)

Day Labor in Dhaka City: Bangladesh

The life of a day labor is very hard in Dhaka City. They start their work in morning and work more than 8 hours.

Radisson Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka, earned $9.52 million

Radisson Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka is part of U.S.-based Carlson Hotels Worldwide. It’s a local joint venture of Sena Kalyan Sangstha and Army Welfare Trust. The hotel management said that it earned $9.52 million in the first year of its operation.

All Headline News reported:

"Although any political deadlock hampers any business, we were less affected compared to others during the political turmoil due to our location, which is another significant reason behind success," General Manager of the Dhaka Radisson Hotel Ian R Barrow told reporters at a press conference marking its first anniversary.

Barrow is very much optimistic about the future hospitality business in Bangladesh with a strong potential for growth.

"Our revenue earnings within less than one year are not only the highest in the local hotel market but also among the Radisson group in the Asia Pacific region," Director (Sales and Marketing) of the hotel Saeed Ahmed said.

The management’s expectation is that it will increase in future in Bangladesh.

Street children (Toaki) in Dhaka City: What do they eat?

Street children in Dhaka city lead a very measurable life. They eat various kinds of things. But from where they get it? Most of they have to face of kindness of people. Some time they have to face the rude behave from people.In these pictures one boy is eating food sitting by a loan place. He also shared it with his companion. He and his companion always share all things. If any one gives some money they also divide it equally.


Globalfootprint has written:

“Some of the children are on the street - they work, play and spend most of their day with other children on the street but have families to return to at night. These children often help the family earn money by working on the streets.

Other children are of the street - they survive without family, entirely on their own, except for the company of other street children or those willing to help and support them.”

Although they eat food by the kindness of others but they have a simple mind to help others. Dear viewers, in this picture you can see that one boy is giving food to the dog.

Hawkers of Footpath: In some Busiest area in Dhaka City

In Dhaka city footpaths are occupied by the hawkers. Now I am describe some of them like Motijhil, Gulisthan, Pantan etc. It is the busiest most of the area in Dhaka City.

The busiest area in Dhaka city is the Gulisthan, Motijhil and Purana Paltan. If you go to there you can see all people are busy for their work, like official work, intercourse and others. You also see that there are a lot of hawkers who are selling daily necessary things like, cosmetics, cloths, food etc.

Footpath Life in Dhaka City

Why are these people living in footpath in the capital city in Dhaka? Is it a funny life? No it is fully measurable. Why are they leading these lives?

Most the people, who live in footpath, have a sad story in the background. In conversation, it brings out that they had a happy life in the past. After devouring their land by the river they had to come to Dhaka city and leading a measurable life. In these pictures you can see some women are gossiping and children are playing. It is their family. In the afternoon they was seating in different motion and enjoying the heat of winter sun and some are drying their cloths. loving-bengal has written:

“Monga is a sort of famine that stalks the northern region during the lean period when there is no work for farmers or agricultural labourers. The jobless people lose their food purchasing capacity. "As the local economy is not enough to keep the locals in their own areas, they roam around and finally migrate to the capital as part of their coping mechanism," the economist said. There is no official or unofficial data on how many people migrate to Dhaka each year during Monga. But economists said this time the number of migrated people would definitely be higher than the number in yesteryears. A World Bank report titled "Bangladesh: Development Policy Review" released recently reveals the picture of urban poverty and says the number of the poor among the city population has increased 7.2 percent from 1995-96 to 2000. Based on statistics from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the World Bank report says about 36.6 percent of the people in cities live under the poverty line while it was 29.4 percent five years ago.”

When they use to live the footpath, they have to fight with nature in every moments, rain in the rainy season, storm in summer season, beating cold in winter. In spite of being various kinds of problem, they try to lead a happy life with their family members.

Exception day of a Rickshaw Puller in Dhaka City

More than one million rickshaws are running around Dhaka City everyday. So it’s called the city of rickshaw. People of all classes used rickshaw for moving one place to another. So its face various kinds of problem.

Dear viewers, in these pictures you are watching that a rickshaw and a man is on the other rickshaw. Sometime ago this rickshaw was pushed by a bus and one of its wheel was broken. For repairing the rickshaw puller took it’s on another rickshaw.

If it’s a common seen in the populous like Dhaka City but this day the rickshaw puller will face a serious problem like less income and have to starve or will eat lees food that he needed.

Rice: The staple food of Bangladesh

Rice is the staple food of Bangladeshi. It grows in a moderate climate. In Bangladesh, the climate is very good for growing all kinds of crops like rice. Rice is plowed in tow season. One is Let-autumn and others is May - June.

The Daily Star has written:

“Being an agriculture-dependent economy with a growing population, and having one of the world's lowest land-man ratios with further aggravation due to loss of and non-agricultural use of land, the most important issue in Bangladesh agriculture is to ensure enhanced and sustained growth in crop productivity.”

Now it is the Let-autumn so farmers are sowing crops in their field. At the end of Autumn farmers show their seed in the Seed-plot. After some days when the seedling becomes grow 5-6 inches then the farmer put it and plants it on their mushy land.

“Crop yield is a function of environment and genotype of the variety used. To improve the yields of certain genotypes, technologies are being developed at the research stations. These technologies are adopted in the farmers' fields to harness benefits in production and profit.”

In the pictures you can see the different step of the crops. This after three month at the end of March and whole April these crops will change its shape and will become a full paddy. Then people will harvest it and will get the peak it and will keep it in to their barn for reservation.

Bangladesh: Catching fish by a Small Boy

Fishing is someone’s favorite hobby. But it is limited among some of man who was not live in city of town. But in the village it is common for every man. There is no man who does not know how to catch the fish. In that area it is common work for everyone. It is one of the works in their daily routine.

It was the month of January and the time was 2:30PM. Please look at this boy, the boy is not catching fish in a swamp. The name of the boy is Rassel, read in class four and his father is a day-laborer. Fishing is not his hobby. It is his daily work. His mother asked her to go to catch fish for their lunch. For this he came for fishing their. He is fishing with different kinds of net. The net is triangle that was made by three bamboo stick and a cloth like curtain.

About Bangladeshi fish sector world bank wrote:

• Bangladesh is blessed with rich and diverse natural resources for fisheries. About 34 percent of the country's area is under water almost six months each year. Bangladesh has extensive riverine systems, as well as productive coastal and marine fishing grounds. Reflecting this wealth, the fisheries sector makes important contributions to income, employment, nutrition, and foreign exchange earnings. It generates about 3.5 percent of total gross domestic product (GDP), mainly from inland fisheries. The sector employs about 1.5 million full-time professional fishermen and about 11 million part-time, mainly subsistence fishermen, whose numbers peak in the June-October flood season. Altogether, these fishermen and their families represent about 50 percent of Bangladesh's population. Fish supply approximately 80 percent of the animal protein and 7 percent of the total protein intake in the average Bangladeshi diet. For subsistence fishermen and their families, the fish they catch is often their only source of protein and essential minerals. About 11 percent of export earnings comes from fishing, chiefly from shrimp raised in brackish ponds.

He came to catch small shrimp to there. After seeing him I went there and look that the boy was pushing his net under water. After sometime he pulled his net and I saw that there was some small shrimp and also different kinds of small fish we called it Rui.

After some one hour again I went to him and saw he caught more fish. He requested me to give him some picture of his own because he has no pictures on his home. I assured him that I would give him that picture.

Footpath Markert: Seen all over in Dhaka City

The picture you are watching is market on footpath market; I took it form Khilkhet near Zia International Airport. The area is known as Khilkeht Bas stand. The Daily Star wrote

“Winter is finally here this year, and the temperature can be felt at Bongo Bazar where sales have shot up considerably over last week's cold spell. "Our sales have doubled," says a salesman at one of the "booths" at Dhaka's most popular clothes outlet. Sweaters, jeans, hats, scarves and even gloves are selling fast at the current 10-14 degrees Celsius. This winter season, SWM guides you through the maze at Bongo Bazar and shows you what's in and at what prices at Dhaka's very own Bongo.”

“Today it houses the huge surplus supply from local garment industries. It is these export-quality items that makes the visit worth the effort for the middle and the upper middle income groups of Dhaka. There are foreign items too, brought in from Japan, China and Korea. Such apparel arrives in Sadarghat, Dhaka via Chittagong. Another huge input pours in from the local markets. There are hundreds of sewing machines constantly churning out different items in the second tier of the Bongo Bazar itself. Kazi Enam, a wholesaler who has his showroom on the first floor of the Bazar, is the proprietor of Enam and Brothers; he testifies, "There are foreign clothes available in Sadarghat. We buy them to make our own jackets and shirts. Our own khalifas (tailors) make export quality products." According to him, "There are no local products from places like Keraniganj or other places. Keraniganj is the place that supplies to meet the local demand throughout the country." Although a few shop owners claim that Keraniganj too is producing goods for Bongo Bazar, most deny that their clothes have anything to do with the run of the mill items produced there.”

It was the month of January then there was winter season. The temperature is very low in Bangladeshi condition. So people were buying some worm cloth as one’s ability. Dear viewers, you can see that the market is in an open place beside the road. Middle and lower class people is the customer of this market.

Vegetables Seller of Dhaka City

It is not a bazaar. The vegetable seller is selling vegetables beside the lake of. It is at the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka City. In a winter morning he opened his shop beside the lake. This shop is temporary that is on a hand cart so that he could move it easily from one place to another place. Acta Horticulturae has written:

• The country is in the humid tropical region. The climate tends to remain mild due to the influence of the Bay of Bengal and the monsoon wind. The annual rainfall varies from 1112 to 5096 mm with an average of 2076 mm. Most of the rainfall (80%) is received during June to mid October, the second half of the hot season. The hot season starts from mid February. The winter (early November to mid February) is dry, and mean minimum temperatures during the season vary from 8°C to 13°C.

In that morning who were his customer? Well, most of the customers are that persons who came to the lake in the morning for morning work. Men and women both are his customers.

The shopkeeper buys this form Kawran Bazar which is well as a whole sell market. It is one of the biggest whole sell markets in Dhaka City. Some he byes these vegetables for the opposite side of the river Buriganga for extra benefit.

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