Peformance in Rakhi

Date- Festible at 2008 in Kolkata, India.

Bengal was devided into two countries in 1947, west part fell in India and the east part was developed with the name of Bangladesh. In the 1971 Liberation War lots of people of Bangladesh migrated into India. Most of the Bangladeshi people settled down there and later they were called by a name Banggal (native word).

During my study period I found so many Banggal people over there. One day I found a Muslim boy,

Rizwan who was my neighbour and his parents were migrated from east Bengal (now Bangladesh) in 1971. He often said that we are from same land and that’s why he always tried to maintain a brotherhood with me. To make his memory more colourful, I made a Rakhi by myself and tied it on his wrist in the Rakhi festival (a traditional Indian festival in which people tie a hand band, Rakhi, in his or her brother’s or sister’s wrist as a symbol of their love towards their siblings).