বাংলা 
English 
Dublar Char is another important place of the Chandpai Range. Dubla is an isolated island between the Kunga and the Mara Pashur rivers. Here one can see the ruddy kingfisher and the masked finfoot. One aspect of its beauty is the sight of deer grazing on the grass. Dublar Char is essentially a fishermen's village.
Along with catching fish goes the work of drying it into shutki. After hunting hilsa in the monsoon season, many fishermen, for four months, pitch camp from distant Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bagerhat, Pirojpur, Khulna and Satkhira and set up temporary settlements there. Fishermen's hamlets are established in areas such as Meher Ali's canal, Alorkol, Majherchar, Officekella, Narkelbaria, Manikhali, Chhafrakhali and Shelarchar. During these four months they stay busy turning the fish into shutki (dried fish). The shutki collected from here is stored and sold in the wholesale market of Asadganj in Chittagong.
With prior permission to collect fish from the headquarters of the East Division of the Sundarbans at Bagerhat, the boatmen (bohardar) and fishermen enter Dublar Char. The government receives revenue regularly from Dublar Char. Every year, through processes such as the BLC or Boat Licence Certificate and the DFC or Daily Fuel (firewood) condemnation, the fish traders pay revenue to the Forest Department and obtain permission to enter the Sundarbans; besides, when returning after measuring the dried fish collected, they pay the prescribed revenue according to the type of fish.
Every year in the month of Kartik (November of the Gregorian calendar) the island is also famous for the Rashmela and the holy bath of Hindus. Although it is said that this Rashmela has been going on for 200 years, it is learned that in 1923 a forest-dwelling devotee of Harichand Thakur, named Haribhajan (1829-1923), started this fair. Every year countless pilgrims come here to bathe in the sea on the occasion of Rash Purnima. At Dublar Char the devotees float fruit in the sea water after seeing the sunrise. Some, playing musical instruments and singing bhajan and kirtan, enliven the surroundings.
In the Rashmela of Dublar Char, besides the local people, town dwellers from far and wide and even foreign tourists take part spontaneously. This three-day fair also draws many foreign visitors.
How to get there:-
By river: from the Khulna launch ghat one can go to Dublar Char of the Sundarbans by launch. There are launches at night and in the morning.
