are mostly collected out of context. This realization changed his life in a dramatic way, as the Director of the Department of Folklore at Bangla Academy, for folklore got a new lease of life in Bangladesh under his leadership. Organizing three national folklore workshops in the 1980s with participation of leading folkorists of the world as instructors, he discovered the vast richness of folklore in Bangladesh. Soon he realized that the collections so far accumulated from all parts of the country, Shamsuzzaman Khan is a leading folklorist of South Asia. Institutionally he began his career as a folklorist in 1981 when, though incredible and fascinating as texts