The slides are about religions and culture of south-asian country named Bangladesh.

1. Welcome to our Presentation
GROUP 007

2. Submitted By
Hasibul Hasan Arnob (040)
Taqi Tajwar Choudhury (026)
Anika Tahsin Ava (132)
Fazle Ali Khandakar (018)
Sanjida Khan (Mig.)

3. RELIGIONS AND CULTURE
OF BANGLADESH

4. RELIGIONS OF BANGLADESH
Islam (86.6%)
Hinduism (12.1%)
Buddhism (0.6%)
Christianity (0.4%)
Others (0.3%)

5. CULTURE OF BANGLADESH

6. LANGUAGE
Official Language
BENGALI
Dialects Tribal Languages
Sylheti Monipuri
Chittagonian Chakma
Garo
Others
English
Hindi

7. FOOD
Bangladesh has a tropical monsoon climate so we have a distinctive culinary tradition for food.
TYPES OF FOOD
 Street Food
o Fuchka
o Chotpoti
 Fast Food
o Burger
o Pizza
o Sandwich

8. FOOD
Traditional Food
o Panta-Ilish
o Vaat-Vorta
o Muri-Murki-Khoi
o Pitha-Puli
o Sweets

9. SPORTS
Most Popular Sport : CRICKET
National Sport : KABADI
Traditional Sport :
o Ludu
o Danguli
o Noukabaich
o Bolikhela
o Kanamachi
o bouchi

10. MUSIC
We can define our music culture by 3 parts.
Classical
Bangladeshi classical music is based on modes called ragas.
Folk
o Baul
Mainly inspired by LALON FOKIR and almost
exclusively performed by hermits.
o Bhandari
Devotional music from the SOUTH (mainly CHITTAGONG).

11. MUSIC
o Bhatiali
Music of fishermen and boatman.
o Bhawaiya
Song of bullock-cart drivers of the NORTH (RANGPUR).
o Sari
Sung especially by boatmen. It is often known
as workmen's song as well.
o Shyama Sangeet
A genre of Bengali devotional songs dedicated
to the Hindu goddess Shyama or Kali.

12. MUSIC
Modern
Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, Fusion are types of modern music.
We have also two different types of music in our culture.
That’s are :
Rabindra Sangeet Nazrul Geeti

13. FESTIVALS
Bangladesh is a land of Festivals.
We can mention some of them here :
 Eid ul-Fitr
It is the most important religious festival for muslims.
 Eid ul-Adha
It is also a big religious festival for muslims.
 Durga Puja
Largest religious festival for hindus.
 Buddha Purnima
Religious festival for buddhists.

14. FESTIVALS
 Pohela Baishakh
On 14 April we celebrate the first day of Bengali Calendar.
 Boshonto Boron
On the first day of Spring we celebrate it.
 International Mother Language Day
To commemorate the sacrifice of our language martyres,
we celebrate 21 February with proper honour.
 Victory Day
We achieved our victory against Pakistan on 16
December 1971. So every year we celebrate it
as our victory day.

15. MEDIA
TELEVISION
 State Owned Channels : 03
 Private Channels : Over 30
RADIO
 State Owned Radio Station : 01(BANGLADESH BETAR)
 Private Radio Station : 28
NEWSPAPER
 Around 200 Daily Newspapers
 More than 500 Periodicals

16. ARCHITECTURE & HERITAGE
Bangladesh has wonderful architecture & heritage sites.
 Lalbag Fort
 Somapura Mahavihara
 60 Dome Mosque
 Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban
 Ahsan Manjil
 Shahid Minar
 Mahastanghar
 Sundarbans

17. LITERATURE
Bengali literature denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language.
We can define bengali literature by 3 parts.
Old Bengali Literature
The first works in Bengali, is generally known as the Charyapada. These are mystic
songs composed by various Buddhist seer-poets.
Middle Bengali Literature
Mangal-kavya, Mahabharat etc. are literatures of middle Bengali age.
19th Century
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam,
Rabindranath Tagore, Jibanananda Das and many more’s writings.

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