Bull Fight Festival In Bangladesh

Bull Fight is

Traditional Festivity in Bangladesh. During Winter Season After harvest they  Arrange  bull fight festivity.  Everyone Preparing their bulls for  bull fight Festival. Last night Before festival day some owner of bulls bring the witch doctor  they used candle, oil, egg, rice ,water and glass  for bulls good   luck   and  maintaining their status. They do  staff at night because they don’t allowed to take bull outside at daylight because they think this increased the bulls status. In Festival day everyone is walking on the  way of  festival ground where bull fights going to be organized. Group of People are coming to the festival ground by making sound of tam-tam  .Its was held in Netrokona, Megaloy North east of Bangladesh. Bulls are Different size and color. Some bulls wear some dresses. Over 100 bulls participate in the bull fight festival. Fighting Ground where bulls are fight its call thola. Also Monkey’s are brought to make people more entertain and group of people  come to ground with stick. They called them Stick fighter. Stick figher was founded by landlord. They came here to warm up the ground. 

Bull fight festive was following by over 1 million years from our ancient  Civilization . Its was traditionally  celebrate in Netrokona from 50 years ago. After while Stick fighter  start to stick fight to each other to warm up the ground. In Bull Fight competition there also some reward for winner . First prize of the Bull fight competition is Television and Second Prize is Goat. Bull Fight community was arrange by bulls owner. There is a man who announce everything  about  bulls team  and list of bulls Fighting  schedule . All the Visitor Sit together Roundly outside of the thola . At same time several fights happened .Bulls are Separated in four category group.1^st group is called strong group. Somehow Dog participate , Somehow it enter around but it have no place to out. Bull fight started people  all around are  so much excited  Black one attack Red one . they are both pushing back each other . Red become so angry it attacking the black one. Now next match began Two black bull on the ground they attacking each other. Sometimes Bull become Horrible they become anger then run out from ground and it try to attack  the people around it. It cause many accident at a times any accident can happened many times. Another fight began Several one pulling back to other on. They are biting each other with their horns. Several run out and it lost the game. After Winning the fight Winning  group shout and turmoil. Owner of losing team become unconscious because he lost his status for losing the game and winning team got more status by winning the bull fight game .Some owner Scatter paddy seeds on Bulls body for good luck. After while middle size 30 - 40 size bulls fight began. After Winning fight  bull price Increased. Bulls  are entering like a  wearing Fabric necklace . Price of this red bull is 70000tk. After meanwhile A man arrive by riding a horse  to warm up the ground and make  more fun .More bulls are coming and people are waiting for more fun. Interesting Part in the fight is bull movement which is depend on owner team movement around the bull. Bull owner make sound and  move on place to another place to give bull instruction. To give instruction they make some sound of word which make bull sprit more powerful . Final Fight  began everyone was so much excited . Final fight count down began  black one spotted by Samiti . Both one fighting equally everyone  was so much excited every so much curious which one going to be win, But black one wins in short time People burst into joy.  Then the price giving ceremony began, Winning team got the 1^st price television. After Finishing the Bull Fight festivity everyone Return their home .

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Revisiting A Village in Bangladesh 35 years- The Great improvement that have Occurred by Dr.Eirik G.janshon

Dr Eirik G.Janshon i­­­s anthropologist. After Years Research He Wrote Books based one Bangladeshi Rural Culture I attend on of his Seminar . In the Seminar He deliver his talk about his Research in Bangladeshi Village. He talk about some macro factors that   He  think After observing great changes have been occurred that particular village he worked. He came Bangladesh in 1970 ‘s . He worked  with Bangladesh institute of developing studies from 1976 to 1978 its also 1980. Mostly he did quality research. He was assign to go Manikganj .He lived in village long period infect he live with families in Bangladesh . He passed 1 to 1 and half year in villages . He live life like as village people. 1976 its expect so tough   to go village is pretty much difficult from present time. Poverty depends on how much land you own .90% of people   that time was dependent on agriculture village he stayed in he name that village vhaimara. Its had 300 to 310 people live that village and 1/3^rd  people   of that village was landless .they small land which was not sufficient to grow food for family. They worked as a sharecropping contact.  Landless people work 13 days in months on other land to survive except the harvest season. They  beg for sharecropping  Contact  to landholder. In harvest time they had one meats or two meats a day. Sometimes they remain hungry. In Poor village family man had two or one lungi and women had one sari. He record everything in a notebook. 1977 he was doing  interviewed with   a women she was very poor. she has a small baby in her arm. She was in front him and he was suppose to  ask question to the lady. After  answered she is landless and she has husband who have no job .after some question  after while she said please stop stop  I am not able to answered your question because I am hungry, my baby is seek and I am not been eating for some days.

That time if they work  other land  for 10 hour they got 56 tk which Is equal to 1 kilogram rice .which is very little for a family For feeding themselves the have to sold their little land or they have took up loans for feeding themselves. He described each an each economic statistics  of households how poverty destroying them. There income is always less then their expenditure  .This 5  Case studies  latter he wrote 60-70 pages  to presenting the case studies. He left  village in 1980.  

 In world 25 to 30 country had Developing program in Bangladesh 1970 and 1980 . Before 2009 he  visited to  village few times because His daughter  was twenty two years old his daughter work on Grameen bank as a trainee. But that time he didn’t marked any major changes .Again He Revisited village with his family in 2009 and he saw so many thing  has been changed occurred .  so many transport on road like Rickshaw, Baby texis ,trucks , bus, cars. He noticed everybody using mobile phone to communication with each other. Some of them are working out side the country. He met with the lady which he interviewed then poor lady recognized him and said him you are guy who came to interviewed me when I was poor. Women now have her own shop in a village. In her house he have television fan and furniture. He said this is fantastic. Now 30% people are dependent on agriculture . There house is much better and their sanitary is much good then before. Now they can demand thing from market. They are eating chicken regular and they have much food to eat. Some of them are owned land . Many of them Jobs outside of agriculture. Some of them are doing low level  government job. Now days Bangladesh earn 15 million us dollars per year . during 1970 they have 1 million dollar per year .Late 1970 Annual agriculture production is 10 million  to 13 million now it increased 3 times then that time now it 45 million . Population Increased. Bangladesh now Sending 10 million people to aboard to work there and sending money every year. They can also communicate daily by mobile phone form aboard to village.  There are School in a village and not only boys but also girls are went to school and there are women teacher in  school .In 1970 95%    primary passed now it has increased and they are now attending Secondary Education program. In the village they also have their own vaccination program Now.   

Brac and Grameen different Ngo giving loan to Women .Now they village head who help to developed village security and improvement. 

In village Everything is Developed .People are independent now. In this 35 year  rapidly economically changed occurred in  Village. 

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