This presentation summarizes key aspects of culture in Bangladesh. It discusses definitions of culture and includes sections on music, dance, festivals, and celebrations that are important parts of Bangladeshi culture. Some highlights mentioned are folk music traditions like Bhatiali and Bhawaiya, festivals such as Pohela Boishakh, Eid, and Durga Puja, and celebrations for harvesting seasons and marriages.

1. Welcome
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Presentation
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2. Group Members
Dolon Roy
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Adiba Rahman
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Farzana Akter Mim
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Eshita Parvin
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Oindrila Das
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4. What is Culture ?
A culture is a way of life of a group of people.
The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or
society is generally known as culture.
E.B. Tylor defined culture as, “that complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

5. Music , Dance & Stage Drama
The music and dance styles of Bangladesh may be divided into three categories:
1.classical, 2.folk, and 3.modern.
The folk and tribal music and dance forms of Bangladesh are of indigenous
origin and rooted to the soil of Bangladesh.
•Most prevalent of folk songs and music traditions include Bhatia, Bawl, Marathi,
and Bhawaiya.
•Lyricists like Lalon Shah, Hason Raja, Abbas Uddin, and many unknown
anonymous lyricists have enriched the tradition of folk songs of Bangladesh.
Stage Drama is also an important form of presenting the culture of our country.
Social massages can also be thrown towards the general people easily by this.
People can take those massages very clearly through stage Drama.

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7. Festivals & Celebrations
Festivals and celebrations are an integral part of the culture of
Bangladesh.
Widely celebrated festivals are:
 Eid -ul- fitr,
 Eid -ul- Adha
 Pohela Boishakh,
 Language Movement Day and other national days
 Durga puja
 Bashanta Utshob
 Nobanno (Harvesting Month)
 Traditional Marriage Ceremony

8. Eid -ul-Fitr
As the most important religious festival for the majority of Muslims,
the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr has become a part of the culture of
Bangla On Eid day, the Eid prayers are held all over the country, in open
areas like fields, Eidgahs or inside mosques. After the Eid prayers,
people return home, visit each other's home and eat sweet dishes
called Shirini, Sheer Khurma and other delicacies like biryani, kebab etc
dishes.

9. Eid-ul-Adha
The second most important religious festival. The
celebration of Eid ul-Adha is similar to Eid ul-Fitr in
many ways. The only big difference is the Qurbani or
sacrifice of domestic animals on Eid ul-Adha.

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11. Pohela Boishakh
Pôhela Boishakh is the first day of the
Bengali calendar. It is usually celebrated
on 14 April. Pohela Boishakh marks the
start day of the crop season. Fairs are
arranged in many parts of the country
where various agricultural products,
traditional handicrafts, toys, cosmetics, as
well as various kinds of food and sweets
are sold. A similar ceremony welcoming
the new year is also held at the Institute
of Fine Arts (Dhaka) and University of
Dhaka

12. The Language day
In 1952, the emerging middle classes of East Bengal underwent
an uprising known later as the Bangla Language Movement.
UNESCO decided to observe 21 February as International
Mother Language Day. The UNESCO General Conference took a
decision to that took effect on 17 November 1999 when it
unanimously adopted a draft resolution submitted by Bangladesh
and co-sponsored and supported by 28 other countries.

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14. Durga Puja
Being the biggest festival of minority Hindus, loud and colourful six-day long
Durga Puja celebration spans across the country.
Durga Puja is still a large cultural attraction in Dhaka. Dhakeshwari Temple,
Ramakrishna Mission and Joykali temple as well as many local committees
organize puja in a grand manner. Effigies are built and paraded through the
streets of Shankhari Bazaar in Old Dhaka before being dumped into Buriganga
river on the final day of the festival..

15. Bashanta Utshob
The day is celebrated on February 13.A colorful festival held to welcome
Bashanto (spring).Young girls wear reddish-yellow saris with red border
and decorated hairs with flowers, and boys wear traditional pajama and
Punjabi. A good number of kids also get their attractive faces painted with
different motifs including birds, national flag, butterflies etc.

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17. Nobanno (Harvesting Month)
In the rural area, the farmers’ community starts harvesting and with this joy they
celebrate Nobanno. They made PAYESH (Sweet dish made with rice and boiled milk),
various kind of traditional rice cakes to celebrate Nobanno.

18. Traditional Marriage Ceremony
Settle marriage is popular in Bangladesh. Once the guardians (only) of
bride and grooms settled such relation and the bride and groom’s
opinions had minor priority. Now a day the situations has been improved
and given the priority of bride and bride groom likes.
Bangladeshi weeding ceremony has its own tradition and customs for
days long.