Jihad’s Mysterious Death & the Cursed Palm Tree
Nur Hossain, he is also a tailor, and Nur Hossain's brother's home is in Rajganj, beside the Rajganj Bazar in the Rajganj Union of Noakhali district. And Mamunur Rashid's brother's home, or ancestral home, although in Noakhali, he was born in Ghorashal, Narsingdi. His father works at the Bangladesh Jute Mills, so his current home is there, of course. But their ancestral home, or their absolute paternal residence, is in Noakhali. So, the incident happened near Rajganj Bazar, in an area right beside the market, where Nur Hossain's brother's house is located. The incident happened very close to Nur Hossain's brother's house. It was a very tragic incident that happened to a family. So, in a place beside that Rajganj Bazar, a man, what did he do? He dug a hole, basically a hole covering two percent of the land. The reason was that his house was a bit low-lying. During the rainy season, water would come up and flood the courtyard. So, he thought he would demolish the houses and then dig this hole, use the soil from the hole to raise the foundation, and then rebuild the houses there. So, with that thought in mind, he basically dug a kind of ditch on two percent of the land. And after digging it, he raised his house with that soil. However, he did everything normally, there was no problem. Usually, there wasn't much water in that hole, and the hole wasn't that deep either. And a pond on two percent of the land doesn't really happen; it was more of a hole. But during the rainy season, a lot of water would come there, and the water was quite clear. During the rainy season, it was very good for bathing or doing other work. So, since it became usable during the rainy season, the owner of the house, what did he do? He built a ghat there, or a ghatla. We call it ghatla in our regional language.
