The folk traditions of rural Bengal include Jabbar’s Bali game, children’s cooking of sparrow rice, and on the other side, a rural woman is sitting on the floor weaving Shitalpati with her own hands. Alongside this, a bull-racing competition was seen, and some people were playing Ha-Du-Du. This is like a grand combination of the traditions of rural Bengal from a few decades ago.

Department of Painting, Oriental Art & Printmaking, Rajshahi University Professor Dr. Md. Abdus Sobahan has painted a mixed media painting on a 300×2-foot-long canvas in two months of effort. This scroll painting has taken place in the lost folk traditions of rural Bengal. Various festivals (Bengali New Year, Nabanna, Paush Sangkranti), crafts, pottery, folk fairs, folk music, folk literature, traditional sports, childhood, fishing, daily used subjects, etc.

A visitor to the exhibition said, “The scroll painting depicts all the folk traditions of rural Bengal. Looking at this painting, I felt like I was back in time when I played sports in my childhood. I was able to appreciate the lost traditions of rural Bengal in a new way.”

In this regard, Dr. Md. Abdus Sobahan said, “You know that we artists paint the canvas with the touch of paint and brush. Where our nature, the lost history, tradition and folk culture of our village-Bengal bloom. This exhibition is organized so that we do not forget this folk culture of Bengal.”

” If government sponsorship is received, exhibitions will be held at the divisional, district and police station levels,” Abdus Sobahan added.