Bangladesh village houses shine bright with colorful folk arts

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Bangladesh village houses shine bright with colorful folk arts

STORY: Bangladesh village houses shine bright with colorful folk arts DATELINE: April 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:54 LOCATION: CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of women painting 2. various of motifs 3. SOUNDBITE (Bengali): DAYKHON BARMAN, Local artist STORYLINE: Almost all the houses in a village in Bangladesh's Chapainawabganj district, some 302 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, are adorned with traditional art called Alpona. In the village, every mud house wall is a canvas, while their inhabitants are artisans. The colorful motifs on the exterior walls of the houses have won the village the fame of "Alpona Gram (art village)" of the country. Motifs on as many as 50 houses in the Tikoil village are drawn by women. Daykhon Barman is one of the elderly village ladies who said she got married between the ages of 12 and 13. SOUNDBITE (Bengali): DAYKHON BARMAN, Local artist "It is the custom of our Hindu family to make Alpona in the yard with three drops of vermilion and rice

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