Mirza Shakil

In a chilly winter morning, a teenage girl was busy serving customers with tea at a roadside stall in Tangail Sadar upazila’s Khudirampur area.

The land surrounding the water tank behind the Tangail Circuit House was turned into a killing field by the Pakistani occupation forces during the Liberation War in 1971.

After repeated revision of deadlines and costs, the long-awaited Joydevpur-Elenga Highway project is finally nearing completion and even at a slightly lower expenditure.

While rain can be a blessing in providing life-sustaining water, recent showers have turned into the bane of many brick manufacturers’ lives for their use of traditional kilns.

Within three decades, the once solitary and neat Tangail district town has almost turned into a concrete jungle within, with its waterbodies disappearing one after another. This has proved detrimental, to say the least, to the town’s environment and the health of its residents.

Once vigorous and ever-flowing, Tangail’s Louhajang river, is almost dead today. Owing to the construction of a sluice gate, siltation and lack of water, the river has almost lost all its natural flow and navigability.

Once aptly named for its beauty, the Sundari canal at Karatia in Tangail Sadar upazila has now lost its beauty, after bearing witness to mindless pollution and widespread encroachment.

The commercial beekeepers are now hard at work to collect honey from flowers at mustard fields of different regions in Tangail district.

“Kaderia Bahini” was one of the most valiant irregular forces -- having crucial contribution to Bangladesh’s liberation in 1971.

Rozina Akter set out to take care of the needy family when her husband was unable to earn a living due to physical illness. Now she is the only female among the drivers of nearly 10,000 battery-run auto rickshaws plying in Tangail town every day.

The historical memorabilia of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and different establishments set up by the legendary political leader are lying in ruins at Santosh in Tangail.

Our intentions create our reality, said the celebrated American motivational speaker Wayne Dyer. And this saying could not be more apropos than in the case of the ten college students behind Doshomik Pathshala in Tangail.

Drum, known as dhol, makers of Babnapara in Nagarpur upazila have been passing busy time as the Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of Hindu community, only a week away.

Jute growers are overjoyed as they took home good crops, which will allow them to make more profit because of the current higher prices of the golden fibre.

When all the lights of a buzzing shoppingmall in Tangail town go off in the midnight, a woman in her fifties can be seen weeping alone at the corner of the mall, who has reportedly been leading such reclusive life on the streets for the last 30 years after being segregated from her family.

Pineapple farmers based in the Madhupur Garh region of Tangail district are ecstatic about the increasing demand for the fruit that has allowed them to secure better prices compared to previous years.

The members of local orchestras commonly known as band parties in Tangail have been passing hard days as the number of programmes in which they are invited to play their musical instruments has reduced drastically since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.

After the birth of Jagannath Sheel, his parents Gopinath Sheel and Anna Rani shocked as the boy had no hands.

Ever since the beginning of July, Abul Hossain, a livestock farmer based in the southwestern district of Bagerhat, has been patiently waiting for buyers for the three bulls he reared over the past three years.

Erosion hits hard the riverside villages in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail as the water levels of Jhenai and Bangshi rivers increase due to onrush of water from upstream and non-stop heavy rains for the last few days, creating panic among the people.