Bangladesh association Glasgow (BAG) was established in 1971 during the war of independence of Bangladesh. For decades, Bangladeshis in Glasgow have been participating in activities involving not only the Bangla speaking community but the greater Scottish community.
There are various different organisations amongst Bangladeshis in Glasgow working together to represent both Bangladeshi and Scottish culture. Dawatul Islam is a religious organisation providing the Islamic religious activities in Glasgow. Bangla Centre is a Bengali school teaching Bangla language to children and celebrates Ekushey February – International Mother Language Day every year. Bangla Biddya Niketon is another Bangla language school in South Glasgow. Unmesh is a Glasgow based cultural & literary group. The objectives of BAG is to bring these organisations into a common platform to improve social cohesion and to bridge with mainstream Scottish society.
2022 was a successful year for BAG with cultural, social, and well-being activities with our partners Glasgow Museums, Glasgow Life, and British Council. BAG is not just an organization, but a lifestyle, a notion, a philosophy accessible to everyone regardless of their ethnicity, gender, age, cultural, social, and economic backgrounds. We solemnly uphold benevolence, truth, righteousness, and gratitude. Here, self-egos are shredded to nothing; truth and divinity are instituted in an effort to enlighten the present and future generations with pure human values such as respect, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, listening, openness, affection, empathy, and love towards other human beings. Here, today, once again, we remember the martyrs of 1971 in the month of December. May all of us continue to share our human attributes in the year 2023 and beyond. Dr. Tareq Abdullah President, BAG.
OUR MISSION:
liaise and co-operate with other community organizations to build a multi-cultural and multi faith society of equal opportunity
The ScotsmanMEMORi
Dr Saif Khan from BAG, of Glasgow’s small Bangladeshi community, talks movingly about the role Simon Sharkey and the NTS have played in enabling the community to reach out to the rest of the city and the world with their powerful first-ever show MEMORi, based on vivid personal memories of Bangladesh’s traumatic war of independence 40 years ago – memories carried in silence, until now, by three distinguished members of the community.
