Makkah Mukarrama is all Bangla

Sorry everyone had been busy for other stuff for a while. I had the rare opportunity to visit the greatest two islamic cities of Makkah and Madinah. No surprise the whole county is flooded with abundence of economy Bangladeshi labourer. As well as there is a thriving business community as well as a select few professionals in education, health and construction sector as well. as a whole the Bangladeshi community is a self sustaining one and there is proof aplenty everywhere. I was staying at the area of Misfalah where no one would say it's any different from any odd neighborhood of Dhaka. Only difference is some signs are in arabic too :) I'd try to give out brief commentry on the bottom of each picture as well


This is the famous Dhaka saloon. The only one unique on the crowd of Pakistani ones
If you look really sharp you may read out super tailors in bangla

Same goes for Century tailors as well

More of Dutch Bangla

Hey folks! Your remember my friend from Netherlands who sent those brilliant photos of a Bangladeshi departmental shop from Netherlands? Guess what! He's got more photos. As it's said a good customer service is always paid off.

Enjoy the shots! Send more photos from all around the world :)

New Road Day & Night

Here's couple of snaps I took the other day on my way to cannon street.

This one is the front porch of a Lettings agency that has it's name in English, Bangla and some wired language, Russian I guess? What the hell is Russian is doing in E1? Has the world gone mental? I wish someone could explain. It's not Alaska :) We cant see Russia from here


Night shot on cannon street. Money transfer agency promoting great rate and quick remittance.

Just another Dutch Bangla

Great thing about running a online bookshop is that you get to know of a lot of people whom you'd have never imagined. Over the past few years I had the opportunity to come close to a very interesting person who is all over Bangladeshi food and cooking. Although never visited Bangladesh he knows the food, vegetables and spices very particularly and too opportunity to grow a few of them by himself as well. It was a pleasure to provide him with some indigenous cooking of Bangladesh.

He was very kind enough to respond to my distress signal for Bengali billboards. He managed to find out this very interesting Dutch Bangla supermarket, which he himself made his regular destination. What a surprise!

I'm sharing the photos with you as well. Keep sending Global Bangladeshi Footprint from all over the place.

By the way, we've Dutch Bangla bank as well in Bangladesh. The first bank to take ATM to masses. I bank with them too. Love their service :)

Shots from Down Under

My Aussie friend Rony finally cared to move his bum and walk around for a few shots. He'd be promising me these photos for years but finally, they arrive. A friend in need is a friend indeed :)

Quite happy with the photos. Would like to see more of these ...

Cafe Noakhali from NL

It was a pleasant surprize to find out cafe noakhali in the middle of nowhere in Nederlands. I dobut if I would have ever chance to find it out unless Mr. Sharif a friend of mine from Cyprus gave me a hint. As it appears we are literally everywhere.

Check out their website if you know dutch.

http://www.cafe-noakhali.dk/

Whats in the Taj

I am sure it will be difficult to find an educated person who doesn't know about Taj. When I say taj I don't need to say it is the Tajmahal by the Mogul emperor back in the days. But there is more taj than the taj of Agra. We are talking about the taj of Brick Lane.

It is surprising to see the assortment of collection in one store. Taj is one of the bigger departmental stores in London. Often the collection of Bangladeshi products will dwarf that of a large shop in Dhaka or anywhere in Bangladesh.

Some snaps of Taj were taken earlier this year in Brick lane.

Enjoy!

I'm sorry, forgot to take photo of the front and so

সিলিকন ভ্যালির ঢাকা

Post from my cyberhero Ragib bhai,

Copy and paste of his entire post in somewhereinblog without permission :D

Jai Guru!

Original Post

ফরিদ ভাই চেয়েছিলেন, দেশ বিদেশের বাংলা লেখার সাইনবোর্ডের ছবি।

উনার জন্য ১০ দিন আগেই ছবি তুলে রেখেছিলাম। আলসেমি করা আর ক্যালিফোর্নিয়ার এখানে সেখানে ঘোরাঘুরিতে থাকায় আপলোড করা হয়নি।

ছবিতে দেখছেন, সিলিকন ভ্যালির সান্তা ক্লারা শহরের ক্যাফে ঢাকার সাইনবোর্ড। নর্দার্ন ক্যালিফোর্নিয়ার এই সিলিকন ভ্যালি এলাকার দেড়খানা বাংলাদেশী রেস্তোঁরার মধ্যে এটা একটা। (দেড়খানা বললাম, কারণ অন্যটাতে (গুলিস্তান) গিয়ে মেজাজ খারাপ হয়ে গেছে, ব্যাটারা নিজেদের পাকিস্তানী/ইন্ডিয়ান রেস্তোঁরা বলে দাবি করে সাইনবোর্ড দিয়ে রেখেছে, আর পাকি কাস্টোমারদের সাথে উর্দুতে গপসপ করে!)।

ক্যাফে ঢাকাতে চমৎকার তেহারী, সর্ষে ইলিশ, বিরিয়ানি, ডাল, সবজি, পিয়াঁজু পাওয়া যায়। মালিক বেশ আন্তরিক একটা পরিবার ... আর সবচেয়ে মজা হলো অন্য সব পাকি বা ভারতীয় রেস্তোঁরা যখন রাত ৯টা বাজলেই বন্ধ হয়, সেখানে ক্যাফে ঢাকাতে বাংলাদেশীদের আনাগোনা শুরুই হয় রাত নটার পরে। জিজ্ঞাসা করেছিলাম, কতক্ষণ খোলা থাকে , জানলাম, বাংলাদেশীরা আসলে আর যেতেই চায়না, সপ্তাহান্তে রাত দুইটা পর্যন্তও বসে থেকে ডাল ভাত খায়।

লস অ্যাঞ্জেলেসে গিয়েছিলাম গত সপ্তাহে, ওখানে আলাউদ্দিন আর লিটল ঢাকাতে খেয়েছি। তবে সন্ধ্যা বেলা হওয়াতে ছবি তোলা যায়নি আলোর অভাবে। দেখি, সামনে শিকাগোর ফিশ কর্নার এবং আল আমীন স্টোরের সাইনবোর্ডের ছবি দেয়ার চেষ্টা করবো।

সিলিকন ভ্যালির শত শত ইংরেজি, চীনা, কোরীয় রেস্তোঁরার ভীড়ে বাংলায় লেখা দোকানটার নামটা দেখলেই খুব মন ভালো হয়ে যায়। আপনারা কেউ এই দিকে আসলে ঘুরে যাবেন অবশ্যই।

Eskimo Never Rests

Few more Pics from Canada, Courtesy from the same contributor. This time link to Eskimo if someone wants to get to know the fearless fighter bit more closely.

http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/eskimoblog

As it appears people are ready everywhere to take a bit of the Yunus pie.

Everyone's welcome to contribute.

From Corner of Toronto

Sorry folks, I was away for a while. So couldn't do the promised updates on the blog of global connection for the use of Bangla. Being offline for about two weeks in a streak was quite an experience.

But here is the good news. The Bangladeshi Eskimo lives in Toronto and was kind enough to lend a few shots. As it appears there is quite a bit of Bangla going on up north near the top of the world.

Enjoy the beautiful photographs.

Mini Commentry:

1. Departmental shop with Tri-Lingual signboard having a banner for Somoy Mela

2. The banner says Binodon bilingually but not really sure what the shop is for. Probably stationary service.

3. Bangla Kagoj. Looks like the office of a community news publication service. Good luck.