Park, eco park and picnic spot, Mymensingh
Nazrul's Bottola and the Nazrul Universityনজরুলের বটতলা ও নজরুল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
- Time needed
- About an hour.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
The banyan at Namapara where the boy Nazrul is said to have played the flute, and the university built beside it in his name.
At a glance
- University founded
- 2006 (classes from June 2007)
- Festival
- Kuasha Utsab, every winter since 2019
- From Mymensingh
- About 22 km
About
Trishal remembers that as a schoolboy Nazrul would sit under a banyan at Namapara, by the Shukni beel, and play the flute. When the government founded a university for the national poet, it chose that spot: Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University was established in 2006 at Namapara-Bottola and opened to its first students in June 2007. It now has more than eight thousand.
The campus has a sculpture of Nazrul, a central memorial named Chiro Unnoto Momo Shir after a line of his poem "Bidrohi", and a Shaheed Minar beside the old arts building. Every winter since 2019 its students have run the Kuasha Utsab, a crowd-funded fog festival of folk and Nazrul songs, crafts, films and more than fifty kinds of pitha.
Getting there: At Namapara-Bottola in Trishal, about 22 km south of Mymensingh on the Dhaka highway.
Things to do
- Find the banyan and the Nazrul sculpture.
- Come in winter for the Kuasha Utsab.
Good to know
- It is a working university; keep to the open grounds.
