What is the significance of the traditional boat races (Nouka Baich) in Bangladeshi culture?
Why do we have the boat race?
 The tradition was started in 1829 by Charles Merivale, a student at St John's College, Cambridge, and his Old Harrovian school friend Charles Wordsworth who was studying at Christ Church, Oxford. The University of Cambridge challenged the University of Oxford to a race at Henley-on-Thames but lost easily.