Bangladesh pavilion was the point of interest among the visitors and drew a huge crowd at ‘Embassy Festival-Lifting Global Culture’, an annual event held in The Hague recently with more than 50,000 visitors.
Beautifully decorated, with national flag and nokshi-katha, Bangladesh pavilion presented varieties of handicrafts, hand-embroidered items, jamdani sarees, clay items, brassware, jute and leather products and other traditional items.
To introduce Bangladeshi cuisine, Bangladesh pavilion offered singara, shomucha, piaju, fish chop, shashlik, Hilsa fry, biryani, roshgolla, golabjamun etc.
This year the day long festival held on Saturday, Bangladesh Embassy was one of the 62 participating embassies, said the Bangladesh Mission on Tuesday.
Embassy festival is a platform, where participating countries present their cultural heritage, traditional products and authentic cuisine.
Participating Embassies join the festival with full enthusiasm and the visitors wait for the whole year to visit this festival.
The yearlong publicity and preparations of the organizers and The Hague Municipality ensures remarkable turn up of the visitors in the event.
Being present at the pavilion, Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal and his wife Dr Dilruba Nasrin received the visitors, responded to different queries of the visitors and exchanged their views.
Bangladesh pavilion also distributed tourism related pamphlets and brochures among the visitors.
Embassy officials along with the members of family remain very busy in receiving and entertaining the visitors at the pavilion.
The visitors praised the traditional products of Bangladesh and picked some items of their choice.
Also Bangladeshi mouthwatering snacks and lunch items were in high demand among both international visitors and expatriate Bangladesh community.
Bangladeshi kid, Ahona Shaha took part in the cultural event of the festival and her dance performance on patriotic song was much appreciated.
Ambassador Belal, during his conversation with visitors, mentioned about ongoing development spree of Bangladesh. He conveyed felicitations to the organizers of the festival for such unique arrangement of promoting cultural diversity.
