Children perform at the three-day-long Joom Cultural Festival, organized by the Joom Aesthetic Council in Rangamati Dhaka TribuneRangamati is in festive mode, heading into BoishabiThe three-day-long Joom Cultural Festival, organized by the Joom Aesthetic Council (JAK), has begun. Chittagong's popular singer, Ranjit Dewan, inaugurated the festival at the Ethnic Group Cultural Institute on Sunday. The festival includes their traditional sport and cultural programs, theatrical plays, and pre-production of an album containing songs of the indigenous groups. It is the major cultural festival for all the fourteen tribes—who communicate in eleven different languages—of the Chittagong hill district. Tripura people celebrate it as Boishuk, Marmara people celebrate it as Sangraing, and Chakma people celebrate it as Bijhu.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 09, 2019 07:07 UTC