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Literature
Mymensingh
Bangladesh
Mymensingh, on the old course of the Brahmaputra, is the heartland of Bengal's folk tales. Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder gathered most of the stories in Thakurmar Jhuli from village storytellers here, and Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, who retold the Tuntuni tales, was born in this district. Its ballads, the Mymensingh Gitika, are among the treasures of Bengali oral literature.
