one of my favourite flowers from my childhood, they used to grow in my grandmother's garden but i hadn't seen them since. i found them growing in the cemetary130 views
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one of the temples surrounding the main Aat-Chala Temple in Chandina (the main one is a 19th century Shiva temple)129 views
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Chuck in front of a bamboo grove127 views
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lots of clay sculptures in a hut waiting to be painted and prepared for Durga Puja127 views
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stuck in a traffic jam on the highway126 views
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another temple in the complex126 views
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Chuck at the Mainamati Ruins. these are the famous Buddhist ruins from the 6th to 13th centuries. this is the center temple in the Salban Vihara, which was a monastery. the monks' cells surround the courtyard around the temple126 views
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that's a sculpture of Durga inside this temple123 views
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inside a little hindu temple in Chandina, on the outskirts of Comilla121 views
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Maynamati War Cemetary on the outskirts of Comilla. Allied (British, Indian, African, Canadian) and Japanese soldiers from WWII are buried here. so strange to think of them fighting and dying here.118 views
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grave of an even younger British soldier. all the British graves had inscriptions from the families, unlike the graves of other Allied soldiers. The Japanese graves had only names (as enemy soldiers, maybe not much more info was available)117 views
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grave of a young Canadian soldier115 views
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farmers preparing the land for rice planting. this is the countryside on the way to Comilla from Dhaka110 views
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