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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 25

Tales From the City Episode 68: Then and now

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, This week, let’s figure out the mystery designer of buildings in our Discobang’s Pad (Pg 2). If you move on to Bhootum’s Classroom (Pg 4), you’ll find some facts about light and connect the dots. Don’t forget to turn to Speedy’s Zone as the ancient

city of Babylon is waiting for you. As always, Dr. Meow (Pg 6), has facts about banana and the king of funny stories, Sukumar Ray. Have fun with this week’s issue and to send us your drawing, poems etc. at treehouse@ dhakatribune.com

Love Jonaki

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DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Executive Editor Shahriar Karim Managing Editor Jahangir Hyder Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Asst Magazine Editor Tahsin Momin

Contributors Nadia Abdullah

Solution: A carpet dealer without a carpet under his coffee table? Strange, unless the reason is that it has been removed because it was stained with blood after the murder. The carpet dealer confessed.

Treehouse Team Fuad M Hossain Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Baizid Haque Joarder Rad Sharar Raisa Rahim Nahian Shah

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Tahsin Momin Mohammed Mahbub Alam Colour specialist Shekhar Mondal Kazi Syras Al Mahmood Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Masud Kabir Pavel treehouse@dhakatribune.com www.dhakatribune.com

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2 Discobang’s pad Artist of the week Louis I Kahn Word on the street Power to change

3 Tales from the city Then and now

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Learn English kids Connect the dots

5 Speedy’s Zone

History The ancient city of Babylon

6 Dr Meow’s Lab Trivia Sukumar Ray Fruit facts Banana

Discobang's Pad

2 Artist of the week

Louis I Kahn He was an American architect born in March 5, 1901 and a professor of architecture at Yale University. His most famous work is Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, in Dhaka. It was his last project before he died in 1974. The parliament building is in the middle of the whole design, which includes hostels, dining halls and a hospital.

His other works include Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, Yale Center for British Art in USA and the Indian Institute of Management in India and many more. Nadia Abdullah

word on the street

Three girls play “ranna bari” with nothing but bricks, plastic cups and scraps of tissues and papers. Their happiness is obvious as they “cook” in their make-shift kitchen. Maesha Joita

suhadha Afrin

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Power to change

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Treehouse Comic

3 Story and created by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Rio Shuvo Coloured by Rio Shuvo

Tales From the City

Episode 68: Then and now

The story so far Dr. Meow tells Jonaki how everything used to be in the past.

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Bhootum's Classroom

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.

Find lots more fun things to do at www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

Š British Council 2013

Connect the dots

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Speedy's Zone

History

The Ancient City of Babylon Babylon was the most famous city in Mesopotamia, near modern-day Iraq. It was a big city, with very tall walls for protection and fields for farming around it. To enter the city, one had to walk along a stone road with big brick animals on the side, and pass through the Ishtar Gate, a huge gate with dragons and bulls on it

Once inside the walls, the city itself had a lot of people. Everyone lived inside the city, including farmers, merchants, craftsmen and food vendors. The streets were narrow full of three storied houses. People threw all of their waste and trash onto the streets, so they were quite dirty as well. Often, the city nobles would cover the trash with a layer of clay, raising the level of the streets. People would then build steps down their doorways or maybe even cut a new door in the second level and build stairs down to the street.

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Kings There were many kings who ruled Babylon, but the most famous ruler was Hammurabi. Hammurabi quickly turned Babylon into the most powerful city in Mesopotamia. He made the surrounding walls even taller, and built beautiful temples in the city. To make peace, he made friendly relations with the powerful places of Mesopotamia, and made his city safe and protected it from attackers. He later captured many other cities and soon whole of Mesopotamia. He established the first Babylonian Empire, and was king of

“the four quarters of the world�

Religion Babylonians believed in many Gods, each of whom ruled different things, such as earth, heaven, seas, mountains and rivers. Religion was a very important part of their lives and they made sacrifices of food and drink everyday and offered them to the Gods to make them happy. Each God had his own temple, where the priests would perform religious rituals.

Babylonian religious ceremonies were very grand; priests, musicians,

magicians and astrologers all took part in the ceremonies.

Culture The Babylonian people were very skilled engineers. They used a counting system, which was very similar to the decimal system we use today. School was an important cultural centre and education involved copying and memorising different languages. The people knew how to make fabric, cosmetics and perfumes and even performed medical surgeries!

Nadia Abdullah

Dr Meow's Lab

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Sukumar Ray Sukumar Ray was a Bengali poet and story writer, who wrote funny stories for children. He was born in October 30, 1887 in a Brahmo family in Calcutta, India. He was the son of children’s story writer Upendrakishore Ray. His son was the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and his grandson was Bengali filmmaker Sandip Ray. He wrote many famous poems and short stories for children, which even 80 years after his death are still very popular. His works include a collection of poems “Aboltabol,” a novel “Hajabarala,” short story collection “Pagla Dashu” and play “Chalachittachanchari.” He even drew cartoon characters for his story, for example he drew the image of the cat in the story “Hajabarala.”

He died in September 10, 1923 at Kishoreganj district in Bangladesh of fever, for which there was no cure at the time. His son, Satyajit Ray later shot a documentary on his father in 1987. Nadia Abdullah

Fruit facts

BANANA We often see people in cartoons slip on banana peels, or they “go bananas” which means “you’re silly.” But it is important to know that bananas are also very healthy! Bananas are rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Eating bananas help your heart and muscles to work well and your stomach feels better when it’s sick. It gives you energy and keeps you active throughout the day, and is also needed for blood, kidneys and bones.

Nadia Abdullah

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