| Shabash Bangladesh | |
|---|---|
সাবাশ বাংলাদেশ | |
| Artist | Nitun Kundu [1] |
| Year | 1991 |
| Subject | Liberation War of Bangladesh |
| Location | University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh |
| 24°13′N88°22′E / 24.22°N 88.36°E Coordinates: 24°13′N88°22′E / 24.22°N 88.36°E | |
| Owner | University of Rajshahi |
Shabash Bangladesh (Bravo Bangladesh) (Bengali : সাবাশ বাংলাদেশ) is a sculpture in Bangladesh. It is located at Rajshahi University premises. Shabash Bangladesh is another state of the art sculpture created to pay tribute to those killed in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. [2]
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Bengalis in South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, behind Hindi.
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving and modelling, in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast.
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It shares land borders with India and Myanmar (Burma). The country's maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country as well as its most densely-populated, to the exclusion of small island nations and city-states. Dhaka is its capital and largest city, followed by Chittagong, which has the country's largest port. Bangladesh forms the largest and easternmost part of the Bengal region. Bangladeshis include people from a range of ethnic groups and religions. Bengalis, who speak the official Bengali language, make up 98% of the population. The politically dominant Bengali Muslims make the nation the world's third largest Muslim-majority country. Islam is the official religion of Bangladesh.
Nitun Kundu is the sculptor of Shabash Bangladesh. The name of the sculpture comes from a poem named "Durmor" by Sukanta Bhattacharya. The last four lines of which is engraved under the structure:
Nitya Gopal Kundu was a Bangladeshi artist, sculptor and entrepreneur. He founded the furniture company Otobi.
Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of modern Bengali poetry, despite the fact that most of his works had been in publication posthumously. During his life, his poems were not widely circulated, but after his death his reputation grew to the extent that he became one of the most popular Bengali poets of the 20th century. He has had a significant influence on poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay and composer Salil Chowdhury who set some of his popular poems to music.
| “ | সাবাস বাংলাদেশ এ পৃথিবী অবাক তাকিয়ে রয় জ্বলে পুড়ে মরে ছারখার তবু মাথা নোয়াবার নয়। | ” |
Translation :
| “ | "Bravo Bangladesh! The world is amazed! fired, burned, died and destroyed but never gave up!" | ” |
