A weeklong fest included rickshaw
race, folk songs, popular rural games and painting exhibition, beginning on
March-2013 at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Rickshaw, the country’s
most popular human driven and environment friendly transport, mainly use for
short distance movement.
Backing of Japan Embassy, Bangladesh
Olympic Association (BOA) organized the Rickshaw Festival.
84 rickshaw-pullers embarked
on a race at 9:00am from Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (Manik Miah Avenue) to Old Dhaka
and back during the Dhaka Rickshaw Fest Week 2013.
Abdur Rahim, Azahar Ali and Md. Mahbub Meer
obtained the first place of the race and got 100,000 Taka each as price money.
Pictures of Rickshaw at Dhaka City
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| At Dhaka Sheraton Hotel's Lobby |
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| Rickshaws at Dhaka's Road |
One of Dan Mozena (US
Ambassador, Bangladesh) picture became popular to
countrymen, where we see Mozena clad in a lungi and t-shirt and drive a
rickshaw, where his family members were the passengers. Funny but we understood
stronger US-Bangla relations through this picture.
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 Dan Mozena, US Ambassador to Bangladesh rides a rickshaw with all of his family
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