The Perennial Eid Woes in Bangladesh
The Perennial Eid Woes Attaining transport tickets every year during both Eid festivals is of Great Expectation and then Great Frustration as well due to the non-availability. and what starts as a general quest to congregate with family at home, transforms in to a drama and often, melodrama. Writes Faizul Khan Tanim Photos: Focus Bangla The spirit of Eid festivals start with acquiring the transport tickets and very often ends with grave tragedy. Jhuki’r cheye jibon er mullo onek beshi (The value of living is much more than taking risk) – this much-ignored popular saying probably sports and is tattooed in almost all bus, train, ferry and flight counters all over the country. But the signposts with these words are most often broken, in shabby conditions with a mix of betel nut leaf chewing extract and crow excrement on them or plain and simple disregarded since the mad home-goers will not stop at anything to go to their home states and enjoy Eid fest...