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National fish of Bangladesh:Ilish



Hilsa, also pronounced Ilish is the national fish of Bangladesh and also relished in India's Bengali and Oriya speaking populace.Hilsa is mainly available in the Bangladesh rivers Padma, Meghna and Jamuna. Those from Padma are considered to be the best in taste.

National poet of Bangladesh:Kazi Nazrul Islam



Kazi Nazrul Islam was born on the 25th May 1898 at Churulia in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.A most versatile and prolific genius of this part of the world, he worked in multiple literary genres producing and astonishing corpus of literary works in Bangla.His works include at least 50 books of poetry and songs, 4000 songs and ghazals, 6 books of stories and novels, 3 books of translations 53 plays, verse-plays and operas, 2 movie scripts, 5 books of essays and other kinds of prose writings.The poet died at Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh as National poet on the 29th August 1976.


National game of Bangladesh:Ha-du-du



Ha-du-du or Kabadi is a team pursuit sport, primarily played in South Asia. Kabaddi is derived from a hindi word meaning holding breath. Kabaddi is used as the chant in the game (see below) in most of the world. However, in Bangladesh this is hadudu, in Nepal Do-Do, in Sri Lanka Guddo, in Malaysia Chado-Guddo and in Indonesia Techib. Hadudu/kabadi is recognised as the national game of Bangladesh.