Rajshahi

District Based Database-13 (Rajshahi)

1. Title: Rajshahi, Rajshahi Division (Mango, Silk, Green, Education City)

2. Historical description: One of the oldest and most traditional cities. The largest city in North Bengal. Rajshahi is located on the banks of the river Padma. Known as the Silk City and one of the educational cities, Kalai is famous for bread, mango and lichi. The cleanest and greenest of the cities in Bangladesh.

3. How to go: From Gabtali / Mohakhali in Dhaka you can take any bus going to Dinajpur (Hanif, Shyamoli, Greenline, National, Desh Travels). Non-AC-450-500taka, AC-1000-1200taka.

From Kamalapur/Bimanbandar station you can take Silk City Express, Padma Express and Dhumketu Express to Rajshahi station.

From Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport you can get off at Hazrat Shah Makhdum Airport and go to Rajshahi. (Bangladesh Biman, Us-Bangla)

4. Places of interest: Barendro Research Museum, Bagha Mosque, Puthia Rajbari, Padma Garden, Zoo, Martyrs Memorial Museum

5. Where to stay: Hotel Nice International, Hotel Dallas International, Hotel Gulshan, Hotel Century

6. Where to eat: Rahmania Hotel, Tripti Hotel & Restaurant, Bidyut Hotel & Restaurant

7. Famous food and vegetables / grains: * Food: Kalai Ruti, Bot Parota, Kalabhuna, Khir Chamcham, Date Molasses * Vegetables / grains: Tomato, eggplant, potato, sugarcane

8. Famous personality: Maulvi Shamsuddin Ahmed – the first Bengali Muslim eminent archaeologist of the subcontinent, the founding principal of Rajshahi Government City College and the acting vice chancellor of Rajshahi University, Poet Shukur Mahmud is probably the last poet of the Nath literary genre of medieval Bengal, Haji Lal Mohammad Sardar – Twice a member of the Legislative Council of Undivided Bengal, Sahid A.H.M. Kamaruzzaman- Minister of Home Affairs, Relief and Rehabilitation in the Government of Independent Bangladesh at Mujibnagar, one of the four national leaders

9. Places to see around: Uttara Ganabhaban, Rajbari, Mini Cox’s Bazar, Natore