Monday, November 30, 2015

Shilaidaha Kuthi Bari


Shilaidaha Kuthi Bari
Shilaidaha Kuthi Bari
Shilaidaha Kuthi Bari: Shilaidah Kuthi Bari is a spot in Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia District in Bangladesh. The spot is popular for Kuthi Bari; a nation house made by Dwarkanath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore carried on with a piece of life here and made some of his paramount ballads while living here.

In 1890 Tagore began dealing with their family bequests in Shelaidaha. He stayed there for over a dacade at sporadic interims between 1891 to 1901. It is a nation house fabricate by the father of Rabindranath, Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. The house was repossessed by a Bank; the Tagore Estate was a borrower to this Bank, who sold the property and it turned into the ownership of the Zamindar of Bhagyakul (Munshiganj), Roy gang. The house was a piece of Roy Estate till the Zamindari framework was canceled under the East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950. Syed Murtaza Ali, amid his residency as Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi took the activity to protect the bedraggled house in 1958. Amid this remodel, the shade of the house was incidentally changed to red like different houses fit in with the previous Zamindars of the area.

Writing

Amid his stay he composed large portions of his well known lyrics, expositions and short stories there. Among those a percentage of the showstoppers are Sonar Tari, Katha o Kahini, Chitra, Chaitali, and so forth. He likewise interpreted a hefty portion of his manifestations in English there. He likewise composed the majority of the sonnets from Naibedya, Kheya and a large number of the melodies from Gitanjali and Geetimalya. It arrived, in Shelaidaha in 1912, that he began making an interpretation of his Gitanjali into English, which earned him the Nobel Prize for writing in 1913. A chateau has been made in Shelaidaha Tagore's Kuthibari.

Structural engineering

It is a three storied building developed with block, timber, ridged tin sheets and so forth. The building is pyramid molded with a patio. The aggregate region of the compound is 11 sections of land. The building is arranged on right amidst the compound.

Exhibition hall

The reconstruction of Kuthi Bari has been finished under the Department of Archeology, Ministry of Cultural Affairs. It now serves as a historical center named 'Tagore Memorial Museum'. Huge numbers of his utilized items are shown here, for example, his bed, closet, iron mid-section, grass trimmer, encircled pictures and last yet not the slightest his houseboat.

Celebrations

A few celebrations are watched during the time in Kuthi Bari, for example, 25th Baishakh as Tagore's introduction to the world commemoration. It is a five day long celebration. Individuals from the nation over and also India and whatever is left of the world join this event to praise his birthday. The system incorporates dialog, social program, reasonable and arranging.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Sylhet

Tea Garden
Sylhet is a noteworthy city that lies on the banks of
Sylhet is a noticeable Islamic profound focus and home to various Sufi places of worship. It has the fourteenth century catacombs of Shah Jalal and Shah Paran. The Sylhet region was constituted amid the British Raj in 1867. It was a piece of the Bengal Presidency and the Assam Province. Upon a submission, it turned out to be a piece of East Bengal in the Pakistani Dominion after the Partition of British India in 1947. Sylhet turned into a point of convergence for Bengali progressives amid the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It was the main residence of General M A G Osmani, the Commander-in-Chief of Bangladesh Forces.

Surma River in north-east Bangladesh. The city has a populace of more than 500,000 individuals. It is encompassed by tea bequests, sub-tropical slopes, downpour timberlands and waterway valleys; the locale is one of the main vacationer destinations in the nation.

The Sylhet Division creates the vast majority of Bangladesh's tea yield, manure and regular gas. It is additionally known for its stick, citrus, timber and agarwood. Sylhet is a noteworthy beneficiary of settlements from the Bangladeshi diaspora, especially from the United Kingdom. The city is served by the Osmani International Airport. It is joined with the Port of Chittagong by the N2 and the Bangladesh Railway. The Bangladesh-India outskirt in Tamabil is situated toward the north of the city. Sylhet is additionally home to the Shahjalal, Shah poran, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Sylhet has a worldwide cricket stadium, Sylhet Agricultural University, Shahjalal Fertilizer Factory Ltd.

Geology and atmosphere.

Sylhet is situated at 24.8917°N 91.8833°E, in the north eastern locale of Bangladesh inside of the Sylhet Division, inside of the Sylhet District and Sylhet Sadar Upazila. The atmosphere of Sylhet is damp subtropical with an overwhelmingly hot and sticky summer and a moderately cool winter. The city is inside of the rainstorm climatic zone, with yearly normal most astounding temperatures of 23 °C (Aug–Oct) and normal least temperature of 7 °C (Jan). About 80% of the yearly normal precipitation of 3,334 mm happens in the middle of May and September.
Badhaghat,Sylhet.

The city is situated inside of the locale where there are slopes and bowls which constitute a standout amongst the most unmistakable districts in Bangladesh. The physiography of Sylhet comprises basically of slope soils, incorporating a couple of substantial sorrows referred to locally as "beels" which can be for the most part named oxbow lakes, brought about by tectonic subsidence fundamentally amid the seismic tremor of 1762. It is flanked by the Indian conditions of the Meghalaya in the north, Assam in the east, Tripura in the south and the Bangladesh areas of Netrokona, Kishoregonj and Brahmanbaria in the west. The region secured by Sylhet Division is 12,569 km², which is around 8% of the aggregate area territory of Bangladesh.

Topographically, the area is intricate having differing conciliatory geomorphology; high geography of Plio-Miocene age, for example, Khasi and Jaintia slopes and little hillocks along the outskirt. At the middle there is a limitless low laying surge plain of late source with saucer formed miseries, privately called Haors. Accessible limestone stores in diverse parts of the locale recommend that the entire region was under the sea in the Oligo-Miocene. In the most recent 150 years three noteworthy seismic tremors hit the city, at a size of no less than 7.5 on the Richter Scale, the last one occurred in 1918, albeit numerous individuals are ignorant that Sylhet lies on the quake inclined zone of Bangladesh.

Society

Given its exceptional social and financial improvement, and etymological contrasts (Greater Sylhet district was a piece of Assam and Surma Valley State for a great part of the British Raj in examination to whatever is left of Bangladesh), and given that Sylhet has, for the greater part of its late history, been a locale of a bigger entity. As such a variety of Sylhetis are inhabitant abroad, Sylhet has a noteworthy stream of outside money from non-occupant Bangladeshis. The major occasions celebrated in Sylhet incorporate conventional and religious festivals, Muslim celebrations of Ramadan and afterward after, Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. Cultural or nationalistic festivals incorporate the Language Movement Day, this is the place wreaths are laid at the Shaheed Minar paying tribute to the saints, the Bangladeshi Independence Day, Victory Day celebrated with parades by school and institutes, and the Pohela Baishakh—festivity of the Bengali New Year. Relational unions are drilled in a conventional Bengali Muslim style, with the gaaye halud, mehendi workmanship and sacred petitions to God.

Religion


The dominant part of Sylhetis are Muslims (90%), different religious gatherings incorporate Hindus (8%), and not very many quantities of different religions, basically Buddhists and Christians (under 2%). Most of the Muslims are principally Sunni Hanafi;[16] and there are noteworthy quantities of individuals who additionally take after Sufi standards, the most compelling is the teachings of Maulana Abdul Latif who was from the town of Fultoli, Zakigang. He was a relative of Hazrat Shah Kamal, one of the pupils of Shah Jalal.[51] Research in Bangladesh found that 60% of Sylhetis implore day by day when contra.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Saint Martin Island

Daruchini Dip
Chera Dip
Saint Martin Island is a little island in the northeastern piece of the Bay of Bengal, around 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf landmass, and shaping the southernmost piece of Bangladesh. There is a little bordering island that is isolated at high tide, called Chhera island. It is around 8 km west of the northwest shore of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River. The principal settlement began only 250 years back by some Arabian mariners who named the island 'Zajira'. Amid British occupation the island was named St. Martin Island. The nearby names of the island are "Narical Gingira", additionally spelled "Narikel Jinjira/Jinjera", which signifies 'Coconut Island' in Bengali, and "Daruchini Dip". It is the main coral island in Bangladesh.
The majority of the island's roughly 3,700 occupants live essentially from angling. Additionally, the other staple products are rice and coconut. Being extremely basic in the island, green growth are gathered, then dried lastly sent out to Myanmar. In the middle of October and April, the anglers from neighboring territories convey their got fishes to the island's transitory wholesale market. However fares of chicken, meat and different nourishments do roll in from the territory Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma). As the inside and the south are for the most part farmland and alternative cabins, the vast majority of the changeless structures are around the furthest north of the island.

Amid the stormy season, due to the perilous conditions on the Bay of Bengal, the occupants have no degree to go to the territory (teknaf) and their life can get to be hazardous. There is presently a doctor's facility on the island, however in the past there has frequently been no specialist.

Transportation

The best way to achieve the spot is the water transportation i.e. pontoons and boats (for the most part for visitors) from Teaknaf. Try not to hope to discover taxis, tarred streets or power here in the island. Aside from the bigger inns that keep running on generators, there is no power supply from the national network in the island since an unsafe sea tempest in the year 1999. The island is about sun, ocean and palm trees. Amid the day, the island wakes up with water and shoreline sports, with shoreline gatherings and blazes illuminating the night skies.


Tourism  
 
From 1989 to 2004, non-private Bangladeshis and nonnatives were the main individuals allowed on the island; in any case, this has changed and now private Bangladeshis are permitted. St. Martin's Island has turned into a prominent visitor spot. Presently, five delivery liners run day by day excursions to the island, including Shahid Sher Niabat, L C T Kutubdia, Eagle, Keari Cruise and Dine and Keari-Sindbad. Visitors can book their outing either from Chittagong or from Cox's Bazar. The encompassing coral reef of the island has an expansion named Chera Dip. A little hedge arrives, which is the main green a portion of Chera Dip, improving the excellence of this island. Individuals don't live on this a portion of the island, so it is fitting for the voyagers to go there ahead of schedule and return by evening.

In the previous five years St. Martin's guest populace has expanded significantly. While this circumstance has turned out to be lucrative for the islanders, it is making the common magnificence of the island break down. In a matter of seconds there are numerous endeavors being advanced to protect the few jeopardized types of turtles that home on the island, and additionally the corals, some of which are discovered just on Narikel Jinjera. Bits of the coral reef are being evacuated keeping in mind the end goal to be sold to tourists.Nesting turtles are once in a while taken for sustenance, and their hatchlings are regularly diverted by the twinkling lights along the shoreline. Types of fish, a couple of just as of late found, are being overfished. Consistently the anglers must wander farther to ocean to get their catch. The vast majority of them use motorless water crafts.

It is conceivable to stroll around the island in a day on the grounds that it quantifies just 8 km2, contracting to around 5 km2 amid high tide. The island exists simply because of its coral base, so evacuation of that coral dangers disintegration of the shorelines. On account of this, St. Martin's has lost approximately 25% of its c.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Kuakata Sea Beach

    Beautifull Beach
    Beach
  • Kuakata

    Kuakata is an all encompassing ocean shoreline and town on the southernmost tip of Bangladesh. Situated in the Patuakhali region, Kuakata has a wide sandy shoreline from where one can see both the dawn and dusk. It is around 320 Kilometers south of Dhaka, the capital, and around 70 Kilometers from the region base camp. The Kuakata shoreline is 30 km long and 6 km wide. On 13 September 2007 government had reported a red alarm in Kuakata as alert for a conceivable Tsunami.

    Historical underpinnings

    The name Kuakata began from the word 'Kua'- the Bengali word for "Well" which was burrowed on the ocean shore by the early Rakhine pilgrims in mission of gathering drinking water, who arrived on Kuakata coast in the eighteenth century in the wake of being removed from Arakan (Myanmar) by the Mughals.[4] Afterwards, it has turned into a convention of delving Well in the areas of Rakhaine tribes for water.
    Kuakata offers a full perspective of the dawn and dusk from the same white sandy shoreline in the water of the Bay of Bengal.
    Privately known as Shagor Kannya (Daughter of sea), the long segment of dim, marbled sand extends for around 30 km. The long and wide shoreline at Kuakata has a regular characteristic setting. This sandy shoreline has tender inclines into the Bay of Bengal. Kuakata is additionally a haven for transient winter winged creatures.

    On the eastern end of the shoreline is Gongamati Reserved Forest, an evergreen mangrove woodland and piece of the first Kuakata. At the point when the Rakhines settled in the zone in 1784, Kuakata was a piece of the bigger Sundarbans timberland. On the other hand, the Sundarbans is currently at a separation of one-hour by velocity vessel. As a mangrove timberland, Gongamati, similar to the Sundarbans, offers some security against tidal surges, then again it too is logging so as to be debilitated and deforestation. The most ideal approach to achieve the backwoods is by foot or bicycle along the shoreline, where a group of banner flying angling vessels can be seen trawling the coast. Going by Gangamati in the late evening is a flawless time to watch the sun station shadows on the conceptual uncovered mangrove roots.

    Kuakata is the spot of journey for both Hindu and Buddhist groups. Countless fans touch base here at the celebration of 'Surge Purnima' and 'Maghi Purnima'. On these two events the travelers scrub down at the straight and take an interest in the conventional fairs.One may likewise visit the 100 years of age Buddhist Temple where the statue of Goutama Buddha and two wells of 200 years of age are found.

    The administration and nearby entrepreneurs have made noteworthy advancements throughout the years to draw in traveler to its shores. These days, nearby individuals are more strong to the vacationers and interchanges have enhanced altogether. Another Police station was inherent 2007. In like manner, the lawfulness circumstance in the open shoreline, even during the evening, has enhanced altogether.