Bangladesh
This place truly is constantly changing. Sitting on the largest river delta in the world, crouched beside the Bay of Bengal, this low-lying land sees its very soil renewed like clockwork each spring as the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers deliver -countless tons of mineral-rich silt. The world’s third largest Muslim nation, after Indonesia and Pakistan, Bangladesh is one of the most crowded places on the planet. It's also home to many spectacular river-swimming Bengal tigers. Over time, it has assimilated the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism, all of which may be seen in its cultural life today.
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On 13th April, 2012, to celebrate the coming of the Bangla new year, airtel, supported by Prothom Alo, got together with 5 of the country’s leading artist to create history. The dream was to paint the world’s largest Alpona- a local street art form- on Manik Mia avenue in Dhaka.
220 young artists, supported by thousands of Dhakaites, worked from 12AM to 6AM, using almost 3,600 liters of paint to create an Alpona that stretched from one end of the Manik Mia to another. The 1 km long Alpona created covered a staggering area of 260,000 sft, and was the perfect way to mark the start of 1419!
Longest hand paint Alpona in Manik mia Avenue in Dhaka to welcome the bengali new year 1419. This is the world’s longest street art design and takes 3 minutes to drive from one end to the other.
University students painted the largest alpona in the world on both sides of the Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka. On the eve of Bangla New Year, five eminent artists coordinated the 350,000 square feet motif representing the folk culture of Bangladesh
- Shahed Ahmed Photography © 2012
University students painted the largest alpona in the world on both sides of the Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka. On the eve of Bangla New Year, five eminent artists coordinated the 350,000 square feet motif representing the folk culture of Bangladesh
- Shahed Ahmed Photography © 2012
(via ashestoember)
