Bangladesh is a land of art. Art is the way of living for the people of its 68,000 villages, where housewives are busy making Nakshikantha, Pankha(hand fan), pillow covers, handkerchiefs, wall hangings, TepaPutul (doll), Nakshipitha (decorated food item), bedcovers, and much more. Even the walls of the houses are painted and decorated in vibrant colors. And then there is the Alpana art, or ritual painting – motifs painted on the floors of the homes. 

Urban Bangladesh thrives on art too, with its colorful trucks, buses, auto-rickshaws, and especially the art done on cycle-rickshaws that has gained quite a lot of attention in the recent times.