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Pat-chitra culture--a Bengali viewpoint
Report on aspects of scroll making and performance in the two Bengals.
     
Street Art India--Bangalore City Wall Murals
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Slave camp in Dhaka
Authorities in Bangladesh have rescued 30 people, including children, found chained up at a factory on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
     
Trucking in Technicolor on Pakistan’s Highways
Updating Pakistan's truck arts, article with slide show: "......Predictably, mass production has changed the business over the years. Adornments are no longer exclusively handmade."
     
Dancing for the Dead : Funeral Strippers in Taiwan
A film by Marc Moskowitz. Please check out the 'electric flower carts' and their conveyance art decor.
     
Dhaka’s ricksha art fades in motor age
Renowned Bangladeshi ricksha artist R.K. Das kept painting through his country’s war for independence, two bouts of sectarian bloodshed and an Islamist military government, which banned his work. But the wily 75-year-old...
     
13 sued for disgracing devotees of Lalon
Mohammad Fakir, 60, filed the case with Pangsha Police Station stating some local fanatics and influentials also forced them utter 'tobaa' (confession of guilt) at a local mosque and forbade them to follow Lalon.
     
Baul Archive
About the Bauls of West Bengal; includes on old film on their lives in India
     
Her dream -- a dowry-free Bangladesh
As the wedding ceremony got under way, the bridegroom's family asked hers for dowry. At that moment, Farjana decided against the marriage.
     
Open Doors—a story
Shapla’s eventual new life
     
Burma Boy
Al Jazeera correspondent finds Nigerian WWII Burma fighter and the Bengali family who saved his life
     
New Good video of Dhaka streets and the ricksha rush. Directed by Shahjahan Siraj.
There are more videos of rickshas on this page, of varying worth.