The Titas ( ''Titāsa''; also Romanized Titash) is a river in Bangladesh which merges into the

Meghna river The Meghna () is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, the Meghna is formed inside Banglade ...

and forms part of the

Surma-Meghna River System The Surma-Meghna River System is a river complex in the Indian Subcontinent, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest on earth. It rises in the Manipur Hills of northeast India as the Barak River and flows west becoming the Surma ...

. Titas starts its journey from

Sarail Upazila Sarail () is an upazila of Brahmanbaria District located in the Chittagong Division and near the Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. History The leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan zamindars, Isa Khan, had his first and temporary capital situated in Sarail. Dur ...

, Brahmanbaria. The river is long and again meets the Meghna river near

Nabinagar Upazila Nabinagar () is an upazila of Brahmanbaria District in the Division of Chattogram, Bangladesh. Nabinagar Thana was turned into an upazila in 1983. Geography Nabinagar is located at . It has 94,871 households and a total area of 86,568 acres (353. ...

, Brahmanbaria. Bangladesh's first Y-shaped bridge is over this river connecting

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and Brahmanbaria.

Geography

Titas Gas The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution PLC ( ''Titas Gas'') is the natural gas distributor in Bangladesh, with an 80% market share. As of 2020, they employed 2,100 staff and served 2.8 million domestic customers, 12,000 commercial customers ...

, the biggest natural gas reserve of Bangladesh located in Brahmanbaria, which supplies gas to capital

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, is named after this river. One of the offshoots of the Meghna river is also named as the Titas. The river has become narrow and shallow in many places due to siltation.

Depiction in popular culture

''Titash Ekti Nadir Naam'' (''A River Called Titas'') is a 1956 novel by

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

writer

Adwaita Mallabarman Adwaita Mallabarman, (also spelled Advaita; 1 January 1914 – 16 April 1951) was a Bengali writer and journalist based in India. Today, he is best known for the novel, ''Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (novel), Titash Ekti Nadir Naam'' (''A River Called ...

and adapted into the 1973 film of the same name by

Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright. Widely considered as one of the greatest film makers of all time, his works remained largely underrated and ignored during hi ...

. It is a depiction of the lives of a fishing community dependent on the Titas River.

References

{{Rivers in and around Bengal Rivers of Bangladesh Rivers of Chittagong Division