Category: Street scene


Day 80

BENGALI LADY doing her daily laundry at the tube well with hand pump.

SARI-CLAD LADY WALKING ON A STREET OF Khulna, Bangladesh.

YOUNG GIRL WAITING for the bus to Kumarkhali.

Day 77

MY FRIEND GETTING ON THE BUS FOR DHAKA.  I traveled with the truck to Dhaka.

Day 74

LADY BANANA SELLER – In recent years more women are out selling merchandise, fruits, or vegetables.

POLICE WOMEN having a good time while waiting for the crowds to show up for the Boi Mela organized by the Bangla Academy.

Day 70

ARTIST AT WORK outside the Boi Mela (Book Fair) at the Bangla Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Day 68

MAGAZINE STAND Operator where I buy the South Asian version of the Reader’s Digest every month.  It is a special treat for Alice, which pleases her every time I buy it.

Day 63

BENGALI LADY and her daughter, who were also waiting for the Boi Mela to open.

Day 60

VAN-GARI Driver working his way through the crowd waiting for the Boi Mela to open.

PAINTERS AT WORK on the wall and on my face and hand!   I attended the annual Boi Mela (Book Fair) organized by the Bangla Academy on the last day of the month long Mela.  They had many painters who were ready to paint the national flag, map or minar.  My hand was done free when I ran into the painter I had met earlier but didn’t ask to have any painting done.  He insisted on doing my hand at no charge!

Day 55

STREET BEGGAR AT THE bars of my CNG wanting some taka.