I really think someone needs to take the initiative to start a "museum of Bengali migration" in Bangladesh. It would be so fascinating- it could perhaps chronicle the period starting from the days of the Chittagong laskars that Amitav Ghosh writes about in his Ibis trilogy till the modern day, with photographs, text and other exhibits collected from migrant and migrant families in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, Malaysia, Mauritius, Sudan, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, etc. and the more established communities in the UK and USA.
If curated well, it could be so dynamic with lectures and presentations from people like Vivek Bald, Amitav Ghosh, etc.
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