Shashtya Andolon is a network of health activists, researchers, health practitioners, professionals environment and women's organisations. UBINIG is the secretariat of this network since its inception in 2000. Shashtya Andolon has been very effective in mobilising public opinion for a pro-people health policy to be declared and implemented by the government. It also organises campaign on public health issues by organising seminars, holding demonstrations etc.

Hegemony of the urban elite culture not only marginalises the cultural world of the majority of the people of Bangladesh, but often claims the authority to represent the culture of the people. The unique feature of the peoples' culture is its rsilience and resistance against the constatnt assault upon the social memory, history and popular imagination of the people. In this section we will present those cultural events and activities of the people that are profoundly significant in constituting a cultural milieu in the present era of globalisation that are indeed 'popular'.