Rakher Upobash Festival is one of the most significant and visually striking festivals of Hinduism in Bangladesh. Primarily celebrated by the Hindu community, this ritual of fasting and prayer is held in honor of Baba Lokenath, a saint revered for his wisdom, ascetic life, and teachings of compassion and devotion. The festival, also known as […]
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Bangladesh is one of the world’s most densely populated countries. There are people everywhere, and the great majority had an Indo-Aryan phenotype and profess Islam… Yet, far in the Hills bordering Myanmar, we find what at Last Places we like to describe as an ‘island of resistance’. The Tripura people of Bangladesh, a small Animistic […]
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