Sculpting Bangladesh

Sculpting Bangladesh

Mushfique Wadud searches out the stories behind the most significant sculptures of Bangladesh, the majority of which are monuments to the struggle and spirit of independence, and learns why each and every one is indispensable to our heritage and identity

photo by Prito Reza

On October 18, the chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), Fazlul Haq Amini, on behalf of the Islami Ain Bastobayon Committee threatened to pull down every single statue around the country declaring that the establishment of statues were against the principles of Islam.
You can read it in the following link

http://www.newagebd.com/2008/nov/28/nov28/xtra_cover.html