Hooka Khomok hangout
Hooka: A smoking setup with the base of Coconut shell, wooden pipe and clay funnel with tobacco in it.
Khomok: Traditional single- string based tension drum type musical instrument.
On a easy midday hang out Shajahan is playing the Khomok and singing an spiritual song of very popular kind at the local tea shop. Smoking in Hooka is not so widely seen now a days in the coutry side with the availlibility of various grades of cigarettes.
Durgapuja
The greatest Hindu festival.
Worshiping the goddess Durga is an annual festival. This is a 10 day long festival.
Moktob/ Quranic school
Mostly, in every mosque of Bangladesh, the Imam [prayer leader] teaches the young children of the village to read Quran and the methods of saying prayer.
This can be called as a pre-primary education base for the Muslim children. At the very tender age when they are introduced with book and slates. Arabic is the first language they are learning to read and write.
This has been a tradition of free education running for generations.
When the dawn breaks, the children wake up and come to mosque with their Arabic book; sit together and read loud in rhythmic chorus.
In some areas, the Imam gets small amount of salary from the collective sums by the villagers, while Islamic Foundtion provides support to them in some mosques. In some mosques planned curriculumm are implemented with extra care including Bangla, Mathematics.
Mosques posses a wide spread network in the social structure of Bangladesh, hence could be a effective administrative outlet for reaching out those countryside dwellers who have never reached school.
Rice cakes
Winter is the best season for different varieties of rice cakes.
Plam sugar from sugercane or date juice, coconuts, grinded rice flour, milk, egg in some cases are the key ingredients of traditional rice cakes.
These cakes are identical with their tastes ranging from sweat, hot, liquid, dry, crunchy, boiled.
Different parts of Bangladesh have the proud history and background of rice cakes.
Rice cake, puffed rice or flatten rice are very popular snacks and desert as well.
Fisherman and his fishes
A fish vendor at his shop.
Early in the morning, Koitta market place remains crowdy and busy with the local fisherman.
Fisherman collects and sales fish from own or leased pond, canals, streams and rivers from the neighbouring area.
young mother’s
saree, shaka, sidur
the definition of ornaments to every hindu housewife.
a young mother feeding her child.
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