Written by : Tanvir Mahatab Abir
Rakib: Hello, How are you?
Shakib: I am fine. What about you?
Rakib: I am also fine.
Shakib: Do you know about the ethnic people in Bangladesh?
Rakib: Not so much. I just know that they hold a very important place in our culture.
Shakib: Right. I tried to learn about their food habits and lifestyle .
Rakib: Are their food habits different from ours?
Shakib: Not exactly. Many of their staple foods are rice.
Rakib: What do they eat with rice?
Shakib: I read that Chakma and Garo people eat fish and vegetables with rice.
Rakib: Do they have any favourite food?
Shakib: Yes. Bash-corol is Chakms’s favourite food and Meoa is Garo’s favourite.
Rakib: I heard that Garo people like to make many types of pithas.
Shakib: Yes. There are many kinds of pithas such as Mera, Nakshi, Tel etc.
Rakib: Many varieties among their food habits.
Shakib: There are also many varieties in their lifestyle.
Rakib: Yes. I saw that some of them lived in Machanag.
Shakib: Not only their house but also their clothes are very interesting.
Rakib: I do not know about that.
Shakib: Men wear lungis and women wear thamis and angis.
Rakib: Are they making their own clothes?
Shakib: Women make their own clothes but men don’t.
Rakib: Do you know about their pastime?
Shakib: Yes. Hunting and fishing are their favourite pastimes.
Rakib: Anything else?
Shakib: They also love singing, dancing, fair etc.
Rakib: What do you know about their sports?
Shakib: Wrestling is a popular sport for them.
Rakib: Great to know about many things of ethnic people . Thank you.
Shakib: Most welcome.
আরো পড়ুন :
১। জন্মদিন পালনে ইসলাম কী বলে?
২। ঈদে মিলাদুন্নবী নিয়ে যা জানতেই হবে
৩। স্বপ্নে কী এমন ভয়ংকর শাস্তি দেখেছিলেন রাসূল (সা.)?
