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In the Festivals of Bangladesh Muntassir Mamoon reports from a variety of flash points across Bangladesh. Getting out onto the streets to get beyond the rituals, Mamoon paints a radical portrait of the struggles, hopes and needs of the people. The other Bangladeshi religious festivals: Eid, Muharram, Janmastami, Durga Puja, New year all are powerfully portrayed as festivals where high versus low culture are intertwined, in which artists and common men, religious devotees and intellectuals, all striving in various ways to embrace the multicultural society we live in.
Muntassir Mamoon
Muntassir Mamoon (b. 1951) was born in Dhaka, did his M.A. and Ph.D from Dhaka University. Currently he is a professor in the Department of History, Dhaka University. He is eminently known as a historian and also a writer. He has written a number of. books in the different branches of literature. He is a recipient of many awards. Bangla Academy Award is one of them. His important research publications are: Unish Satake Purba-Banger Samaj, Festivals of Bangladesh, Smriti-Bismsritir Nagar-Dhaka, Inside Bureaucracy: Bangladesh (Coauthor) Struggle for Civil Society in Bangladesh (Co-author) and Unish Satake Bangladesher Sangbad Samyik patra (9 vol).
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