“Textbooks do not enlighten your mind; you can enlighten your mind by reading storybooks or poetry. Food is necessary for your life- But you cannot live without oxygen. Textbooks are your food and books of literature are your oxygen.”
-Prof. Abdullah Abu Sayeed
The people of the capital and nearby areas observed annular solar partial eclipse. The eclipse started at 10:05:24am and lasted till 4:07:36pm. The highest point of the eclipse was observed at 2:31:37pm at St Martin island. In Dhaka it was seen from 12:44:07pm to 4:58pm.The next total eclipse will be seen from Bangladesh 105 years later, in 2114 while the next annular solar eclipse in 2064.
Two workers clean their dyeing cloths on the Buriganga river at the same time BIWTA removeing the garbage from the river. Local resident of Aganagar Hamid said, nothing will change if we do not stop polluting in the river. Recently the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has begun removing thousands of tones of garbage from the Buriganga River. It was estimated that BIWTA will involve removal of 300,000 cubic meters of waste from the riverbed of the Buriganga, the main artery of the capital’s waterways. The estimated cost of the cleaning operation stands at around Tk 6 core which includes the cost of both cleaning and safe disposal of the rubbish.
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
– Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
Thus, indigenous peoples have become the most marginalized and vulnerable group in the country of Bangladesh in its thirty eight years of independence. There is no constitutional recognition of the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh the issue of the identity of the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh has led to much debate and controversy, and on occasions has brought indigenous leaders and government officials into sharp disagreement. My project is a visual and narrative documentation of this Indigenous people express their daily life and their traditional and cultural condition in the society. I am using photography not only as a means of evidence, but also a link for the imagination.
MONIRUL ALAM 
