Kochuripana : the soul of water / [directed by] Oasiuddin Ahmed.
Dhanai bibi is a woman who lives on a boat in the Kuichmari region of the Dhaleswari river near Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. She has been living on a boat for last 25-30 years along with her children on 8-9 other boats, each with their own families on these boats. They are not of the Bede...
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| Format: | Streaming video |
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| Language: | Bengali English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Privately Published,
2013.
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| Summary: | Dhanai bibi is a woman who lives on a boat in the Kuichmari region of the Dhaleswari river near Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. She has been living on a boat for last 25-30 years along with her children on 8-9 other boats, each with their own families on these boats. They are not of the Bede ethnicity. They are a sub-ethnic group called Saudagar who earn their living by selling laces, ribbons, plastic and melamine items. They also earn by catching and selling fish. This story is about a day in the life of such a woman and her family who cook on their boats, eat and sleep on their boats and struggle with sunshine, thundershowers, storms to get on with their life on the boat. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (26 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:25:17 |