BENGALI YOUNG LADY ON EKUSHI FEBRUARY. Don’t mess up the mascara!
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EKUSHI FEBRUARY, AND INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY! MY WIFE, ALICE, AND I HAD our faces painted which is a tradition on holidays. We both had the Shohid Minar (language martyrs memorial) painted on our faces and Alice had the Bangladesh national flag painted on her hand. This is the day in 1952 when some students were martyred who were protesting because Pakistan didn’t want Bangla as one of the national languages. At this time Alice and I were 3 1/2 years old.
THIS BENGALI LADY POSED FOR ME as I was returning from a trip to Farmgate on Victory Day to get my glasses adjusted. On 16 Dec 2011 Bangladesh celebrated the 40th anniversary of its victory against Pakistani troops in the 1971 Liberation War.
BIRDWATCHER AT 
JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY
We went to see the winter birds and were pleasantly surprised when we realized they had their Paki Mela (Bird Fair) the same day.
FAISAL, A TTLer TRYING FOR A GOOD SHOT of the tea estate worker in Moulovibazar.
FAISAL, A FELLOW-TTLer trying to get a good shot of the tea estate worker near Moulovibazar, Bangladesh.
LADY IN KOLANPUR, DHAKA, BANGLADESH getting cup ready for my tea at her roadside tea stand.
AMADER KAJER LOKER PORIBAR! Oops, I better translate. This is our house-helper and her family. (L to R) Shaheen’s son, Sultan, Shaheen (our house-helper), her daughter, Pinky (Sultana), and Shaheen’s Mother
They are standing in the doorway of Shaheen’s one-room dwelling in one of the many Bihari camps in Dhaka. Sultan was dressed up to celebrate the festival, Muharram. The festival commemorates the martyrdom of the prophet Mohammed’s grandson- Hazrat Imam Hussein.
TEA ESTATE WORKERS NEAR MOULOVIBAZAR checking out photo that the TTLer took of them. TTLer (member of the “Through the Lens” photo club).
BENGALI LADY NEAR OLD DHAKA with the modern water “jug!”
WORKER IN TEA GARDEN NEAR MOULOVIBAZAR spies photographer and wants to get behind a tree to avoid being photographed!
ALICE READING IN THE EVENING in the relaxing area beneath our lumbung. We stayed at Hotel Lumbung Damuh for the last five nights in Bali, including Christmas Eve and Christmas. It was a very relaxing place, with the background of the waves hitting the shore just 30 yards from our lumbung (Balinese style home on pillars)!
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