Zainul utsab held in charukola institute

Hand crafts displayed in the stal; photo: Asaduzzaman Romel

Anamul Haq & Asaduzzaman Romel

Charukola Institute of Dhaka University arranged 3 day long program  named “Jainul Utsab” . Cultural Minister Asaduzzaman Nur opened the program in 29 december. The program was chaired by AAMS Arefin Siddique, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Differents type of products displayed in that program. People came to the festival for buying painting, crafts etc.  Some came for visiting this program. According to a visitor faculties & students of the arts departments are morely interested to show their  work in the festival. The program held in the Charukola institute every year. Aloka Nandita Supriya an ex student of Charukola Institute came here with her family as a visitor. She is so excited to visit this program with her family. “Student can express their artistic skills in this festival,” said Aloka. She didn’t find any change in this festaval comparing with the previous year. People of different age  visited the festival with full of joy. They baught  different items and enjoyed the festival so much. Stall were crowded with the visitors. They were satisfied by bieng able to show & sell their items. Mohammad Ashik Khandakar a student & seller of painting of a stall said that they did their art by taking concepts from the Jainul Abedin’s painting. “Visitors are so interersted to buy our product  a lot because our products are so creative,”  said Ashik Khandakar. 8 deparments of Charukola Institute held with their own stall. The departments were arts & painting, Historical paints, Graphic design, Paint making, Drawing & painting

Performance art week 2016

Shahnewaz Kamal Ripon & Arafat Ahsan

The Performance Art Week 2016 featured, 20 artists of different background are being performed. The open program schedule to take place in three different venues: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct and Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth. Today`s program was held at the Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth where six artists were performed on intense and complex issues.

Brommah Akhon Ghumaitachen ; Photo: Ripon

The event organized by the Visual Arts Program of Bengal Foundation.  Sumana Akther`s “Five Minutes for Sundarban`` was the opening performance of the day, using a vast amount of coal and tied each big fraction of coal with white cloth by sitting on it.

2^nd performer was Reetu Sattar  a folk singer performed ``Isn`t It Time to Let Me Go`. She used caged crow, a heart, many taxes with wet floor while song was sang in background. `` Brommah Akhon Ghumaitachen``by prominent artist Niloofar Chaman was marked as third performance of the day. She used many elements like a white cloth laid from top to bottom of a stair, eggs, apples and moreover audience also a part of performance which make it installation. 

Waley Jaff presented `` A Conversation With Rock`` using a big white cloth as canvas to write the conversation and writings went top to bottom by using a ladder sometimes it overlapped with previous writings in which audience might find surreal intense. Then Meherun Akter came with her ``Self Conversation``. It was a self-obsession of a woman who often wears many cloths and does makeup like an unstable mind in the idea of women sorry state.

The last performance was `` An Invisible Man`` by Atish Saha. Many fill up sack which entrances was tied were kept in wet floor. All on a sudden a sack got some movement, assumed inside a human but it was invisible because of sack which represents it`s also a sack of trash like others. This performance was a part of artist`s experimental series based on object and time focusing on our perception of things and body language.

The program is organized with an aim to look into the multiple complexities of the ephemeral medium of performance arts and its cultural and socio-political influences through discussions, performances and exhibitions.

The documentations of Performance Art Week 2016, the program will also hold an exhibition titled ``ephemeral: perennial`` exploring the mediums and possibilities of documenting performance art. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Professor Syed Manzoorul Islam and art critic Professor Md. Abul Monsur at Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct on January 6. 

'3% students are drug addicted'

 Anamul Haq & Asadduzaman Romel

"3% students are drug addicted, by involving with research students can be free from drug,"said Rashed Khan Menon in a program named " Khude Gobeshok Sommelon 2016" 
"Chintar Chas" an organization  arranged the program in TSC yesterday. 18 students were awarded for their research on different categories. 

101 students from 18 school of Dhaka participated in this program,  & Chintar Chas working for make the students interested in research.

Rashed Khan Menon   Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism was the chief guest of the program.

Dr. Zahid Hasan Mahmud semi conductor of technology research centre & lecturer of Electronic & Electrical Engineer of university of Dhaka welcomed the student for researching & he wants to help the little researcher. “Educational authority should include research in the curriculum so that they get the concept of research from the School,” said Zahid Hasan.

Jahidul Islam Secretariat of education & research of Chintar Chas said “We see that there is so much lack of opportunities for the students to research, Chintar Chas wants to give the facility for the students to research”.

They are trying to make the research mentality on the students.

‘’We want to work in the whole Bangladesh with our objectives,’’ jahidul added. Jahidul explained that if government work on research we will get the benefits like developed country.  According to him if we give facilities to the researcher we may be succeeded in another field.

Gourdian & participant were so excited. There are a complain about the schools that there not helping their students for creating a research mentality

Adparicipant in the stage; photo: Asaduzzaman Romel caption

“I don’t see the contribution of school in research, teachers are not inspiring their students in research, even no teacher has come in this program”, said Kaniz Fatima UGC Fellow & a researcher.

Many of the students are inspired by Chintar chas project & they want to research in future if they get help & facilities.

“Chintar chash a different organization in Bangladesh who are inspiring little researcher will contribute to create more researcher in future,” said Oprotim Paul a student of Saint Joseph school.

Guardian are excited about this event as well as. They hope this type of activities will be continued in future so that their children can get the opportunity in research. They also suggested government to work on research & give them enough facilities for the students.

“If the students involve in research they will not active with unsocial activities so it’s very effective activities for the students,” said a guardian.

Edited by Anamul Haq

The brisk business with supply of filter water.

The brisk business with supply of filter water.

Farah Zerin Binti: Water is basic need of human being but the main water supplier in Dhaka city Wasa is unable to provide services to all over the city. There is almost 1.5 crore people in Dhaka city who needs 240 crore liter water. Whereas Wasa is able produce 210 crore litter water. But not all of it is drinkable. Residents have to pay extra money to purity the water. Even after paying the bill to Wasa they are not served with proper service. Regarding this fact some companies are boasting about their purified water. but in the case of water purifiers and filter. People have no idea if the filter works. “Every year we face the same problem. Wasa has not taken proper action for a sustainable water supply. For which we have to buy drinking water from outside. It takes 50/60 TK for each jar.” said Mr. Mostofa Kamal a resident in Dhandmondi 15. According to the sources Wasa produce 78% from the underground. And other 22% from the Sheetlokkha river. But the residents keep complaining either the water supply is so low that it’s barley full fills their daily basic needs or is it unsuitable for use. As a result, the residents are experiencing miserable days. Most of the patient are suffering from water base disease. Sidratul munira residing in Mohammadpur said that they are using pa for drinking water but because of the irregular supply of water. they had to faith in filter water on jar as a result its coast double. Taking advantage of the failure of Dhaka Wasa. Filter water business is taking over places. from house school college office even the small tea shop everywhere they use so called filter water on blue jar. But they are really purified water? Residents are in doubtful and frustrated situation. There are few factories in Karwan Bazar, Mohammadpur, Old town which claims to purify the water. But traders in such business did not obtain any approval by from BSTI.

Mr. Saimon Hossain filter water supplier in Karwan Bazar said “this is the best & purest water” but when he was asked how it’s been purified he could not answer instead he said “this water is demanded people like my water & they have never complained about it.” he claims to have license for this business. Some are putting their faith in Unilever LTD. water purifier called “pure it” it claims to clean their dirtiest water & it is affordable.

Booming business in Tiles Industry, local product on high demand

Booming business in Tiles Industry, local product on high demand

Farah Zerin Binti: Thousands of house are built in the country due to urbanization. Tiles is one of the identic elements to build a house. The demand on tiles is increasing day by day. It’s used in both modernized and non-modernize buildings. For which, ceramic companies are in a very good state in business. Export in ceramic tiles also increasing alongside import of tiles.

“Use of tiles is no more fashion now. It’s become an essential increasingly being used in urban and semi urban areas.” Said Fariduddin Akhter, general manager of DBL ceramics. He said the demand for ceramic tiles both for interior and exterior is rising rapidly in Bangladesh.

Local products are on high demand on the market. Currently, there are 17 local ceramics companies. Shamsur Rahman Sumon, store manager of Kanika Marble &Granite Company, said they get demand on Akij ceramics, Star ceramics, RAK ceramics, Great-wall ceramicsetc. local companies. According to him, mostly sold product is 60-75 tk square feet. Most buyers are real estate companies that focuses on the local product which tends to be more affordable than foreign ceramics and the quality is also good. He also added that RAK ceramics was the no.1 company in 2012 and ahead in exporting ceramics from Bangladesh.

Most ceramic tiles are exported to India, Australia, UAE etc. According to sources, in the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the total export rate in ceramic products is 2580952.45 US$. The export destination is Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, India, Singapore, Middle-East etc.

Industry people said tiles production in Bangladesh first started in 1982, a state owned enterprise which was set up by Bangladesh Chemical Industry Corporation. The second one was Madhumati tiles in 1988.

The situation started changing rapidly after 2000 when tiles became too cheap to easily replace mosaics.

AR Humayun Khan, CEO of Empire Estate builders, said “The construction industry including residence, malls and other corporate buildings, is growing so fast that the tiles business is booming up.” According to him tiles production has increased from 300 square meters to over 100,000 square meters per day from last 1984 to 2016. “We use 70,000-80,000 square feet tiles annually and most of them are local, especially from RAK ceramics, Fu-wang ceramics. There are a lot more variety on local products than before. But we also get demand for foreign products from flat/house owners, in that case they have to pay extra regarding price.” Said Mr. Khan, who has 13 years of experience in the real estate sector.

Foreign products are also on demand said Mr. Salim Reza, owner of Blue Star ceramics, a showroom of tiles and sanitary. According to him Chinese products are demanded among all foreign products. The price range is 112-170 tk square feet which is almost twice as local products and the quality is better. He said, “The buyers of foreign products are mainly elite class people and those who would pay extra to builders for the product.”

Study says, Ceramic and tiles industry plays a big role in the economy of Bangladesh for certain period of time. Sales of locally produced tiles did not go down even in the bad times in country’s construction industry. Bangladesh has a great future ahead in exporting ceramic tiles.

                           

                  Stick Fight: Switching to text book

Syed Tanvir Islam

Edited by MD Niamul Alam Siddiqi

100 years ago, at the time of British colonial rules land lord’s used the stick fighters for their safety and to collect revenue. In the evolution of 100 years stick fighting (Bengali: লাঠিখেলা) was becoming popular as a game in many places of northern-western part. After the fall of British rules land lords custom became evicted which abolished the effectiveness of stick fighter. But inheritably it became a game which is about to defunct today.

 

Those who plays with stick treated as stick fighter. Such few stick fighters showed up in southern part of Rajshahi District. Ershad Mandal, a well known stick fighter of that region. His ancestors were stick force of land lords. Thus inheritably he was introduced with the game at the age of 15. For impressive artfulness he was the commander of his team. He was associated with the art for 20-22 years.

He says about the game, “This traditional game is a game of art and power. It is a drama of physical feat. Besides the game song and dance also exhibit. By the Arts of the game, winners are determined. I awarded with many prizes by entertaining spectators”.

Many legends have onset initially into games as fancy like as cricket, football, tennis. At next this fancy turned into professionalism by efforts. Likewise stick fighters have tried to take the game as professional. Abdur Rahman – another stick fighter expresses their feelings about the scenario of the game.

“Depending on the Moon of Mahram we started this game. We started our preparation as early as possible being finished domestic works. Being completed the preparation we used to go many house in local area to show stick fight. We used to entertain people by the art of game. Being amused people awarded us by tips sometimes grand invitation to their houses. When fair took place we used to show our art of the game in it and we honored with prize-bond by fair committee”.

Due to adversity of fate the stick fighters could not able to take it professionally. Their income from the Game hosts and spectators was insufficient to run their family as this game was considered as a seasonal game.

“Gradually the number of stick fighters became decreased as the game took place in some occasions of a year and rest of the time they worked as day labor because by the earned money from the game was not enough to maintain their family. It was the mail reason that we decreased our interest to continue the game fruitfully. Prejudications are another factor for which we moved away from the game”, Abdur Rahman explains.

The former chairman of Sarda union Matiur Rahman, is a big fan of this game. He used to sponsor mutually with some NGO’s to arrange the game occasionally. A proverb goes, “where there is will there is way”. But he believes sometimes it is very hard to get way though there is a will. So mutual efforts can bring back this stick game.

He says. “Stick game is the tradition of 200 years old. To maintain the tradition, we need financial donation and encouragement from the government. In addition we have move away from Prejudications.

The desire to teach is by inherent. The proper success is implicated in teaching others And to have this success, Stick fighters were regardless. But they defeated by cruel fate.Once stick fighters were so powerful but at present they are confound by powerlessness. Today they regret it through mind rather than beat of stick. Ershad Mondol says with wry smile, “I could not spread out the stick game”. Who will now fulfill their cherished demand or the memoir of stick fighters will be shut in the text of books. By overcoming financial limitations and over looking Prejudications we can recover the tradition of stick fighting.

                              Need oxygen to dying Football

Reporter: Mashrur Niloy

Editor: MD Niamul Alam Siddiqui

A football player who is waiting for good time of football. He comes from Faridpur district. He is come from a poor family. At the time his income was 25 to 30 thousand taka but now he is earning 5 to 6 lakh taka per year. His Father was also a football player but his Father was not interested to his son to play football. We are talking about Mr. JafarIkbal who is now player of Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi football club.

From the childhood he was very much interested to play football. The reason of playing football was his father. In that time his cousin was play football but he could not able to play. He was jealous to his cousin and he promised to play well then his cousin.

In school level when he was class seven he tried play it bigger. The senior brother of his school did not give him chance to play football. The senior brother always plays with their friends and the junior did not get any chance to play. That time was very angry on them and promised himself to play it well at any cost. He worked hard to be with them and that hard work and angry mind help to made a football player. In a football match he played very well and his coach offered him to practice. His father was not supported him that time. But in that level he played very well than his father made him free to play football. 

In the district level he was trapped in football politics. He played well but not getting chance in best eleven. He thinks now the football is into the bad politics. in that time the coach was liked him but he was unable to get him in best eleven. Who’s are favorite to the authority they were selected to play in best eleven. For that reason, he was in side bench. Then he moves to Dhaka and he started practice in Dhaka. Now he is not interested to play the district level football in Faridpur.

In Dhaka everyone is very professional. everyone is try to play well. When he came in Dhaka he understood he is now a matured one and he had to do something. He needed to play football of his career or needed to do other work. He could not able to study for football. If he not played well that he could not sustain. That time he fully taken it as a professional. The player of around him was very serious. To play with them he had learnt many skills. Someone help him and someone not.

At the first time he had taken football as a hobby. In 2006 he had taken it as a profession in a club. He worked hard that time for his club. Sometimes he went to hire in several areas. When he gets hired that time he was very skilled for that.He had played many district as a hired player. In many district he had played for league. 

In our rural level there are many talent plyers. But they are not under nursery. Football is in our blood. Our nation loves it very much. We many talents but they don’t have any opportunity to play. We don’t have any system to pick up the talent now. Now the people just play for fun.

At the first time he couldn’t help his family but now he can help his family. In the first time he earned 25 to 30 thousand but now it’s 5 to 6 lakhs take. So very easily he can help his family now.

He thinks that the football was not so good. In the current time it also not good. But now it’s in under processing. Many organizations have come to help football. It’s a great step for football he thinks. Now everyone plays fast football than past. Many organizations sponsored but money where its going he doesn’t want to opinion. He just plays football and trust on Bangladesh Football federation(BFF).

Our football is now like a dying condition. It needs oxygen otherwise we cannot save it. Because of neglect of federation and less support from supporters. But in outside they have money, good condition and huge support. In India they are trying wake up their football. The Bollywood superstars are inspiring to play football but we don’t have in our country. Do it fast we need oxygen immediately.

He thinks in football there is no future. After football he want to business. 

  

                                   Less facility in shooting games

Reporter: Masud Parvez Ovi

Editor: MD Niamul Alam Siddiqui

‘’Shooting player does not take shooting games as a profession. Because 95% Shooter do not gets money from the shooting club or Bangladesh shooting Federation. ’’Said Hasibul Hasan .

 

Hasibul Hasan is a player of Bangladesh shooting Sports Federation. When he read in class 10, Narayanganj Raifel club arrange a program and the program name is shooter hunt. He was selected as a last member. Becausehe was so young. First three month he was watching the Game. After that Narayanganj Raifel club coach give him gun for play. On the first day he became first. This year Inter club shooting tournament he got silver medal.

He said that if any shooter got national medal they get very small money from the club. If the medal is gold then the club gives 7000 taka from club per month. If the medal is silver then the club gives 5000 taka. If the medal is bronze then the club gives 3000 taka. This money is not good enough for survive. For this reason most of the shooting player connected with another work to earn money. Government gives many facilities but this Facility never rich to the general player. Those player had a good connection with the club they got this facilities. Army can play shooting games. Army shooter gets more facility then the general shooter because they had lots of fun and other thing for practice. They can practice 24 hour.  Normal shooter does not get this kind of facilities. But civilian shooter is better than army on the play ground. Civilian shooter loves this games but army shooter takes this game as a profession.

He again said that game is always an addiction. Now the time has not come to take the game as a career. There is much reason behind that. .   Shooting is a very expensive game. It’s not possible to play without help of club or shooting Federation .secondly every time we cannot depend on club. Suppose every day you have to run 5 kilometer for physically feet and you have to take extra calories, where are you getting money for this food? Club gives us money but is it ok? There is a question .A gun price is 3 lakh. It is not possible for a shooter to buy a gun for shooting. Now there is a election On Narayanganj. We will not practice for 20 days. Because we cannot use gun .A shooter is like a engine , if you stop this engine for few days then the engine does not work  properly.

He added said ‘’ At present Baki is the star because he has an international medal .When Mustafijur played well on one match ,two match or every match ,he got offer for advertisement and he had sponsor but baki also played well, how much he had sponsor. And how much advertisement company knows about the shooting game. If Baki get chance for Advertisement people knows who is baki and it also branding of shooting games. ‘’

He again added that our neighbor country India take very well planning. On this country   there is a ration for shooting player. If they fulfill the set point they get ration .For this reason Indian shooter get more facilities then Bangladesh.

Personally If somebody wants learn shooting game, they need 8 lakh cause the gun price is lakh the jacket price is also 3 luck and any other thing for two lakh  .And this is very hard to manage this money.

Narayanganj raifel  club has only 3 shooter those has no second profession. Because they had a lots of national and international medals .  But without this three member every of the member has a second profession. Money is the great fector.If any shooter get gold medal ,he can earn1.5 lakh to 2 lakh. This money is not perfect for survive.  For this reason they took another profession and they cannot practice. 

Bangladeshi shooting player get some advantage because player hight is perfect for shooting . European shooting player has a great problem because they are very tall. On that side Bangladeshi shooter has advantage.1971 also a reason   for doing well in shooting.