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DIFFERENT LIVES THE MAGHS

                                                                                                                                                                   

The Maghs build their houses on high platforms’ about six to eight feet above the groumd so that their houses do not become damp .The reason to build houses on high platforms is also to protect them from the different types of insects and animals. Moreover they can use the empty space below their houses to keep things such as agricultural tools and looms. Timber or bamboo posts support the platforms.   The walls are made of bamboo slates and the roof is thatched. The main food of the ‘Marmas’ and ‘Rakhaines ‘ is boiled rice with vegetables. A kind of soup made from boiled green leaves seasoned with chillies  and salt is one of  their most favourite items. Another popular food item is tender bamboo shoots The shoots are first cut into small pieces and then dried in the sun. Different types of foods are them prepared  from these. The bamboo shoots are also eaten in a different way. At first the shoots are crushed and then put inside a bamboo tube and kept for eight to ten days till fermentation takes place. The Maghs have two major meals a day one in the early morning and the other before sunset. On festival they prepare different types of cakes using rice,flour,coconut,sugar milk anb other ingredients. The most popular of all is sticky rice. They haves many different different foods.

The Shat Gambuj Mosque in Bangladesh

The Shat Gambuj Mosque, Bagerhat.I n mid-15^th country, a Muslim colony was founded in the inhospitable mangrove forest of the Sundarbans near the seacoast in Bagerhat district by a saint Uluge Khan Jahan. He was the earliest   torchbearer of Islam In the Soud who laid the nucleus of an affluent city during the reing of Sultan Nasiruddid Mahmud Shah (1442-59), then known as ‘Khalifatabad’ (Present Bagerhat). Khan Jahan   adorned his   city with numerous mosques, tanks, roads and public buildings. The most spectacular of a vast sweet-water tank, clustered around by the heavy   foliage of a low-lying   country side characteristic of a seacoast landscape. The mosque a   is roofed over with 77 squat domes, including 7 chauchala or four-sided domes in the middle row. The vast prayer hall is provided with 11 arched door ways on east and 7 each on north and south for ventilation and light. It has 7 longitudinal aisles and 1 Ideep bays by a forest of slender stones columns. From these  columns spring rows of endless arches,   supporting the domes. The arches are 6 feet in thickness, slightly tapering hollow and round walls. The interior and the exterior of the mosque give a view of rather plain architecture but the interior western wall of the mosque is beautifully decorated with terracotta flowers and foliage. Besides being used as a prayer nail the mosque was also used us the court of Khan Jahan Ali.     Now it is one of the greatest tourist attraction and best architectural beauties of Bangladesh.

The Statue of Libertyue (New York)

                                                                                                                

The Statue of Liberty,originally called Liberty E nlightening the World is a statue on Liberty Island,formerly Bedloe’s Island, in the harbor of New York.The statue symbolizes liberty in the from of a woman wearing flowing robes and a spiked crown.She holds a torch aloft in har right hand and carries in har left hand a book inscribed “July 4,1776”.broken chains,symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny, lie at her feet.The statue was designed by the French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi and was given by France to the. United States to commemorate the centennial of US independence in 1876.France raised funds by popular subscription to pay for the statue;US donors financed the pedestal and installation of the monument.President Grover  Cleveland dedicated the work on October 28,1886.The statu,the island,and nearby Ellis Island were declared a national monument in 1924.The statue formet of coper sheets riveted to an iron framework, is one of the largest in the  world.It measures 93.5m(306 ft 8 in) from the bottom of the pedestal to the tip of the torch. The figure itself is 46.4m (152ft 2 in)hight; the right arm is 12.8 m(42ft)long; the hand is5.03 m(16ft 5 in)long; and the head,which is reachable staircase or emergency lift, measures 8.5 m (28ft) from neck to diadem and 3.05           m (10ft) from ear to ea.The statue weighs 254 tonnes (250 tons).Originally conceived as a gesture of international friendship,the statue has become aglobal symbol of  freedom,marking the arrival of millions of  immigrants to the United States.                                                                                                                                                                      

Pahele Baishakh 1418

Today is pahela baisakh, tha first day of bangle year 1418. Tha day will be celebrated with traditional festivities across the country . The day is a public holiday. In keeping with the age-old tradition, traders and shopkeepers will open halkhata ( faest account books) and offer sweet to their  customers and client, Different social-cultural organizations have drawn up elaborate  programmes to celebrate the day. The days first programme will begin at dawn at Ramna Batamul. Chhayanat, a leading cultural organization, will organize the programme. A large number of people, wearing traditional dresses are expected to attend the programme from 6 in the morning .

National dailies will bring out special supplement while Bangladesh Television will air special programmes   on  the occasion.

Students and teacher of the Fine Arts Institute (FAI) of Dhaka University will bring out a colorful procession from the Institute premises at 9:35 am carrying festoons, placards, poster and wearing masks towelcome the Bangla New Year.(1418)

Bangla Academy will hold a cultural programme on its premises artists of the country.

Shilpakala Academy will organise   a cultural function on the Academy premises.

Jatiya Press club will hold a cultural function on the Club premises at 6:1 pm. Bulbul Lalitakala Academy, Liberation war Museum and Bangladesh National Museum will also organize cultural function on the occasion. 1418 Pahele Baishakh (14/04/2011)