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BOOK REVIEW ON Emergence of a new nation In a multipolar world: Bangladesh Written by Dr. Mizanur Rahman Shelly Cover Page: The Book at a Glance: Title: Emergence of a new nation in a multipolar world: Bangladesh Edition: 4th Expanded Edition, April’2007. Published by: Academic Press & Publishers Library. Cover Design by: Golam Kabir Price: TK 375.00 ISBN:984-08-0147-3 All Pages are offset. Dedication: To his wife and beloved sons. About the Author: Dr

 Introduction to the country: "Bangladesh" is a combination of the Bengali words, Bangla and Desh, meaning the country or land where the Bangla language is spoken. The country formerly was known as East Pakistan.  What is Culture: o The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group. o The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. o Culture has been taken as constituting

was published in Bengali in 1917. It was also a time when the forty-year old writer has just experienced his meteoric rise to fame. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

first emergence of nationalism. On the other hand Renaissance and Protestant reformation movement significant role in the rise of European nationalism. “Machiavelli believed that the uniformity of tradition, language and law are the main element of nationalism” (Ayesuddin,1976, in bengali). Besides these it is also necessary to understand clearly the implication of the trend of nationalist movement. The recorded history of Bangladesh is found from around the first century of the Christian era.

century now. Devdas has several adaptations and translations and therefore it is good to look at the specific ways in which the Devdas metaphor has engaged our imagination over several generations. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas was published in Bengali in 1917. It was also a time when the forty-year old writer has just experienced his meteoric rise to fame. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

cultural ecosystem in Bangladesh. We see that all the poem recitation CD albums are released with the poetry of famous poets. This time, we are working to promote the young and new poets to encourage them in their writes. The poems should be in Bengali Language. We have planned to publish 1000 CDs with small booklet and 1000 souvenir and we expect that this will lead to development and encourage 100 young and new

changes have taken place in their folk culture, worship & festival, which were related with shifting cultivation. 3. One of the indigenous of the Bangladesh is called Chakma. They had their own language & script, named ‘Ojhapata’. Now this script is not used, instead they are habituated to Bengali script. Climate Change: As one of the countries most seriously affected by climate change and natural disasters, Bangladesh has been forced to be resourceful and resilient. Without outside help

categorized into five stages, the honeymoon stage, the disintegration stage, the reintegration stage, the autonomy stage and the interdependence stage.” And according to John J. Macionis and Linda Gerber, “The common problems associated with it are language barrier, generation gap, homesickness, information overload, boredom, technology gap and cultural response ability among many others.” Cultural differences affect individuals differently. Therefore, there is no definite way of preventing culture

greeted President Abdul Hamid adorning the same green colored saree. Ms. Marcia Bernicat also came on public eye on February 21, the International Mother Language Day, this year through the US Embassy’s video honouring language martyrs. In the footage, the American staff honoured those who sacrificed their lives to preserve the Bangla language. They wished the people of the country saying ‘Amar Ekushey’

fully in Massachusetts and lives life as a Bengali submerged in an American culture. The narrator grows afraid of his son losing his sense of Bengali pride after the passing of himself and his wife, Mala, and makes it a point to incorporate Bengali tradition into everyday life as much as possible, as shown on page 14: “So we drive to Cambridge to visit him, or bring him home for a weekend, so that he can eat rice with us with his hands, and speak Bengali, things we worry he will no longer do