r/bangladesh

আজকে সেই ২১শে আগস্ট। ২০০৪ সালের এই দিনে আওয়ামী লীগের এক সম্মেলনে ভয়াবহ গ্রেনেড হামলা চালানো হয়। এরপর কেটে গেছে ২২ বছর।

আমার জন্ম ১৯৯৭ সালে, সেই হিসেবে আমি সবচেয়ে পুরোনো বা বয়স্ক জেন জি দের মধ্যে পড়ি (যেহেতু জেন জি দের জন্ম ১৯৯৭-২০১২ এর মধ্যে)। ২০০৪ সালে আমার বয়স ছিলো ৭ বছর বয়স, এখনো হালকা হালকা মনে আছে আমরা ফ্যামিলির সবাই মিলে একসাথে টিভিতে দেখছিলাম সেই ভয়াবহ হামলার নিউজ (লাইভ দেখাচ্ছিলো কিনা মনে নেই)। তবে আমার পরে যাদের জন্ম তাদের কারোরই এই ঘটনা তেমন একটা ভালোভাবে মনে থাকার কথা না, আর ২০০০ সালের পরে জন্ম হলে তো একেবারেই না। মোটামুটি মানুষজনের কাছে শুনে, টিভিতে দেখে, খবর পত্রিকা পড়ে যা জানার তা জেনেছে পরে। তবে জেন জি ২০২৪ দেখেছে খুব ভালোভাবেই, এটা তো জেন জি দেরই আন্দোলন ছিলো। তাই খুব জানার ইচ্ছা, জেন জি রা ২০০৪ সালের সেই গ্রেনেড হামলার ব্যাপারে কি ভাবে, কারণ হামলাটা করা হয়েছিলো আওয়ামী লীগের ওপরে এবং শেখ হাসিনা অল্পের জন্য সেদিন বেঁচে যায়। আপনাদের কি মনে হয় যে ওই গ্রেনেড হামলার জন্যই কি আওয়ামী লীগ এত দমন পীড়নমূলক হয়ে উঠেছিলো পরে?

Im not Bengali but I would like to know if any chauvinistic Bengali nationalist voices exist in discourse in your country that express displeasure with Myanmar as a country and view war as a possibility?

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Digicams are so hyped on recent days. And those who have it, do you think it's worth it? And even if i buy one, what brand should i go for? Nikon coolpix, sony cybershot, canon? Or should I just buy an iPhone for camera quality?

5 days and on. It’s so suffocating. Whenever we get into arguments she stops talking with me. I don’t try to talk with her either. I end up crying like a baby. Sigh.

Could yall pls help with any advice how to avoid arguments and talk with her again?

Pls don’t ask me to say sorry to her. She was wrong last time:(

You won't find women-only buses in the most feminist countries in the world, for example Norway, Denmark or Sweden. Why? Because women there feel safe around men. Only in the most wretched of all places do you need to give women separate transportation for their safety.

Will these buses temporarily lead to less sexual harassment in public transportation? Yes, but it is not a long-term solution. It's easy to unveil some shiny little pink colored buses and act like you've solved misogyny. What's harder is to change our patriarchal culture that tolerates the intolerable against women.

If separating women from men will solve sexual harassment, we should just follow the former Saudi Arabian model, where there was a 'female corner' for women everywhere from restaurants to shopping malls. But did that model actually help women? No, it didn't.

The women-only buses also have that underlying misandry to it. The idea that men are so dangerously irreformable that seperating yourselves from them is the only way to safety.

And who says women are safe with women either? One of the most infamous cases of harassment against women in Bangladesh, the one at narsingdi rail station, was literally about one woman physically attacking another for wearing crop tops. Women in this country are disgustingly misogynistic too.

I'm a bit conflicted on the women-only buses. It might reduce sexual harassment at the moment. You could say, well, this is Bangladesh, not Singapore, so we better do what's practical here. And maybe that's true. But outside of that pragmatism, my ideals can never fully support it.

As-salamu alaykum,

Good morning, my fellow Bangladeshis,

I have a question regarding some land transfer going to my father’s name about before that I will tell you the whole story of it.

I am a male 35 years old born in London to Bangladesh parents. My whole paternal site including two aunts two uncles and my father have gone back to sell it to transfer some property, basically lands in their name so that they may pass onto the children when the time comes..

My father just contacted me regarding fees to transfer into his name and has asked for roughly 1300 British pounds.

Unfortunately, I know nothing about Bangladeshi land transfer laws, nor fees so I am very confused about this

My father has had some distrusting nature to him where he also attempted to take over and claim his siblings land hence why they have all gone there now.

If someone could please greatly update and inform me whether such large fees are normal or even require required during land transfer?

For any further information, he does have a second family with two additional sons and two additional daughters while I myself only have four younger sisters. There is also a chance he has married a young relative as his third wife.

I eagerly await everyone’s response as this matter is very confusing for those of us who do not live in Bangladesh but we do have a connection to the land where we hope to 1 day live in our motherland

Edit: the land is only 0.24 acres in size so not massive but not small either

For the past few years, I have been thinking deeply about different aspects of Bangladesh:our culture, music, drama, and nature and how much they have changed.
I stopped listening to Ayub Bachchu’s music after he passed away. At that time, I was living abroad. It was a quiet winter morning, and snow was falling outside. I entered my laboratory with a cup of coffee. I still remember sipping my coffee and scrolling through Facebook when, all of a sudden, I saw the news: Ayub Bachchu was no more.I was completely alone. A tremendous sadness came over me, but somehow, I could not cry. I simply sat there, trying to process the loss.

A few years later, Shafin Ahmed also passed away. I grew up listening to their music. When I was in Classes 11 and 12, I began listening to bands such as Aurthohin, Artcell, and Shironamhin. Each band had its own distinctive sound, style, and emotion. Now James is getting older, as are many of the artists we have loved for so long. Bassbaba is unwell, too. Sadly, I do not see anyone emerging who can truly fill the gap they will leave behind.
I feel the same way when I think about Bangladeshi drama. The actors who came from the stage and television during the 1980s and 1990s created work that remains unforgettable. We still watch their old performances, remember their characters, and feel a mixture of happiness and nostalgia. But when I look at today’s dramas, I struggle to find anything that can be compared with the depth, quality, and lasting appeal of those earlier works.

Even our natural surroundings are changing. The familiar birds of our childhood: the crow, the Magpie-Robin, and many others are slowly disappearing from our everyday lives. The sights, sounds, music, and stories that once defined our connection to Bangladesh seem to be fading away, one by one.

It makes me deeply afraid to think about what we are leaving behind for the next generation. What our government is doing? Have they ever thought about it?

I am from Nepal and I am just curious to know how big of a reddit community does bangladesh have.

I speak decent bangla as I graduated from Bangladesh. But, I am losing touch with bangladeshi culture and language which was part of my life for some 5 years. I want to keep working on my bangla and I thought the best way to do it would be to create content speaking bangla and watching a lot of bangladeshi content. Do you guys think it's a good idea?