Bangladesh: Bangladesh Art / Culture Profile 2012
2012/02/21
Bangladesh Art / Culture Profile 2012
Bangladesh has one of the lowest living standards in the world. Most Bengalis live in primitive villages, in bamboo homes. With the growth of industry since World War II, however, there has been a great influx of people into the cities, where much of the population lives in streets and shanties. Sanitary conditions in the cities and rural areas are extremely poor, and cholera, typhoid fever, and other epidemics are common. The mainstay of the Bengali diet is rice, usually eaten with curry sauce. High living standards are found only among the privileged few.
The Bengalis have a strong literary and artistic tradition. The greatest Bengali poet is the 1913 Nobel Prize winner Sir Rabindranath Tagore. The sitar player Ravi Shankar, a native of Bangladesh, is the foremost interpreter of ragas, Indian classical music. Bengalis have been prominent in modern painting.
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