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[name] => Rudrakar Moth
[post_id] => 6198
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Rudrakar is a famous place in Shariatpur. It was built 150 years ago. It's been evaluated one of the Sacred places for Hindu religious people. It stands at Rudrakar Union in Shariatpur. Everyday, people from different directions come to visit this place.
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[post_id] => 1462
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Rayer Bazaar is a well-known thoroughfare in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. It is generally regarded as one of the historical areas of the city. Rayer Bazaar was founded during the colonial period most probably in the 19th century. It was the potters who first started to live here beside the Turag River. This Place was most probably named after someone titled Ray. It was easy to find the clay used to make pots in this area and spread it around by boats as it was situated near the river.
During the Mughal period, this place was famous for pottery and most of the potters of this region used to live in Rayer Bazar, because the famous “lal mati” was available in this place. During the Mughal and British Colonial period, the red clay was not available in the neighborhoods. As a result, the Potters of Rayer Bazar have a long tradition of working with this red clay. According to Dr. Wise, this place was known as “Kumartoli” during the Mughal period.
Rayer Bazar will remain in our memories, in our history for another reason. In the night of 14 December 1971, many of Bangladesh’s intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up in Dhaka. They were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city. Later on, they were executed and thrown out in the swamps, at Rayerbazar.
In memory of the martyred intellectuals of 1971, a Memorial is created in there. The ‘Al-Badr’ and ‘Al-Shams’ Group helped the West Pakistan Army to locate the intellectuals and slaughtered them and many other innocent peoples at night. After the massacre they brought the corpses and left them into the swamps of Rayer Bazaar. After the Liberation War, the people of Dhaka found out that all the dead bodies of many great intellectuals and innocent people are piled up in here.” Martyred Intellectuals Memorial is the memorial built for the memory of the martyred intellectuals of 1971. The memorial is built in the Boddhobhumi at Rayer Bazaar.
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বাংলাদেশের রাজধানী ঢাকার অন্যতম ঐতিহাসিক এলাকা হল রায়েরবাজার। সম্ভবত ১৯শ শতকে ঔপনিবেশিক শাসনামলে এই এলাকাটিকে বসবাসযোগ্য করে গড়ে তোলা হয়। তুরাগ নদীর পাশেই অবস্থিত এই এলাকায় মাটির সহজলভ্যতা এবং নদীপথে মাটির তৈরি পণ্য পরিবহনের সুবিধার কারনে এখানে সর্বপ্রথম কুমোররা বাস করতে শুরু করে। সম্ভবত রায় নামক কোন ব্যাক্তির নামে এই এলাকার নামকরণ করা হয়েছিল।
মুঘল আমলে রায়েরবাজার খ্যাতি ছিল মৃৎশিল্পের জন্য। এই অঞ্চলে নামকরা ‘লালমাটির’ সহজলভ্যতার কারনে বেশীরভাগ কুমোররা এখানে বাস করত। মুঘল এবং ইংরেজ শাসনামলে এই এলাকার আশেপাশে লালমাটি পাওয়া যেতো না। রায়েরবাজারের কুমোরদের লালমাটি দিয়ে কাজ করার সুদীর্ঘ ঐতিহ্য ছিল। ইতিহাসবিদ ডঃ ওয়াইজের মতে মুঘল আমলে রায়েরবাজারের নাম ছিল ‘কুমারতলী’।
আমাদের স্মৃতিতে এবং ইতিহাস রায়েরবাজারের নাম লেখা থাকবে আরেকটি কারনে। ১৯৭১ সালের ১৪ই ডিসেম্বরের কালরাতে ঢাকায় শিক্ষক, সাংবাদিক, চিকিৎসক, শিল্পী, প্রকৌশলী, লেখকসহ বাংলাদেশের বিভিন্ন পেশার বুদ্ধিজীবিদের চোখ বেধে ঘর থেকে তুলে মিরপুর, মোহাম্মদপুর, নাখালপাড়া, রাজারবাগসহ শহরের বিভিন্ন নির্যাতন কেন্দ্রে নিয়ে যাওয়া হয়। পরবর্তীতে অকথ্য নির্যাতনের পর তাঁদের নৃশংসভাবে হত্যা করা হয় এবং রায়েরবাজার বধ্যভূমিতে এসব কৃতি সন্তানের লাশ ফেলে দেওয়া হয়। সেই কালরাতে পাকবাহিনীকে তাদের এদেশীয় দোসর ‘আল বদর’ ও ‘আল শামস’ এসব বুদ্ধিজীবিদের খুঁজে পেতে সহায়তা করে। দেশ স্বাধীন হবার পর রায়েরবাজারের বধ্যভূমি আবিষ্কৃত হয় যেখানে দেশের এসব প্রথিতযশা বুদ্ধিজীবির পচা গলা লাশ ছড়িয়ে ছিটিয়ে পড়ে থাকতে দেখা যায়। ১৯৭১ সালের শহীদ বুদ্ধিজীবিদের স্মরণে রায়েরবাজারের বধ্যভূমিতে একটি স্মৃতিসৌধ নির্মাণ করা হয়েছে।
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[name] => Lakshindarer Gokul Medh
[post_id] => 1378
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/places/lakshindarer-medh-gokul/
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[post_content] => The name
Lakshindarer Gokul Medh is taken from famous folk tale Laksinder and Behula. It was excavated in 1934-1936 and it exposed the antique of a temple. It has a high podium and it can hold 172 rectangular blind cell of different types. Terracotta plaques and other objects were found while digging during the Pala period (6
th-7
th) century.
The mound derived its name from the popular romantic folk tale entitled Behula and Lakshindar. Connected with the same story is found another smaller mound, locally known as ‘Netai Dhopanir Pat’, situated to the close east of the Medh.
The mound is situated on the west of village Gokul which is about 2km to the southwest of Mahasthangarh. It was excavated in 1934-36 and has revealed the derelict relics of a temple. The remarkable feature of this temple is its high plinth accommodating 172 rectangular blind cells of various dimensions. They rise in tiers and packed solidly with earth, so as to form a lofty massive podium, crowned originally either by a shrine or a stupa, now lost.
This novel device, functionally comparable to our modern piling system, liberally used in Bengal during five centuries preceding the Muslim conquest, was found particularly suitable for the alluvial soil of Bengal by the builders to erect their sacred buildings to an imposing height much above the flood level. However, the cellular construction is not confined to Bengal only but parallel examples occur far to the west at Ahichhatra in the Bereilly district of U.P.
Terracotta plaques and other associated objects unearthed during the excavation, which are ascribed to the late Gupta period (6th-7th century A.D.), indicate that originally this stupendous ruin at the Medh constituted an imposing terraced sub-structure of a roughly cruciform plan surmounted with a central shrine of complex outline, dedicated probably to the Buddhist Faith. Over the sub-structure is an octagonal plinth which, as mentioned, may originally have carried a stupa, but now completely gone. This stupa was replaced by a square shrine ( 8.17m square outside) and porch during the Sena period (11th-12th century A.D.).
A grand staircase on the west gave access to the shrine, but the doorway of the shrine and porch was later blocked and the floor level raised to an unknown height. The excavation inside the shrine revealed a small intrusive cell containing human skeleton-probably of an anchorite-and underlying that was found a circular brick-paved pit of 3.86m in diameter. A stone-slab of 51.2cm × 46.1cm was discovered at the center of the shrine which bore 12 shallow holes with a larger hole in the center containing a tiny gold left, about an inch square. However, nothing note worthy was discovered underneath the stone-slab.
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[name] => Christian Cemetery at Wari
[post_id] => 7489
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/places/christian-cemetery-at-wari/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Christian-Cemetery-at-Wari01-240x300.jpg
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The exact location of the Christian Cemetery is at Wari. This is just beside the "Salahuddin Specialized Hospital, Wari". Also it’s just one minute walking distance from "Baldah Garden". This place is not publicly available for visit. Only if you have relatives are buried inside the cemetery, you are allowed to enter.
If you notice the Cemetery, you can easily distinguish two different types of architecture of the graves. One part is older one, the holy cross or the pillar beside the grave has baroque style, just like the Greek or roman style. These are older graves, around 200-300 years of old. Other part of the graves are newly build. Most of those are looks like our modern building structure.
This Cemetery is around 400 years of old. At the right side of the Cemetery, you'll find several tombs, and large stone covered graves. All of them are several hundred years of old. Many of them are almost going to ruin. One of the tomb is of Major General Hamilton Wetch of the Bengal Army, who died on the 11th June 1856. Also there is another one where lies the body of Captain Borthwn, from East India Company, who died at 1769.
Also the cemetery comprises the graves of the soldiers who are died during the "Sepoy Mutiny" at Lalbag fort, during East India Period. Most of the name plate of the tombs or graves of this parts are almost hard to read. This is an ancient place, and our country should protect this place before everything is over. The photos will give you an idea about the ruins.
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