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Shubhu Nobo Borsho!

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday Bangladesh and Bengalis around the world celebrated Poyla Boyshaki, the Bangla New Year (1406). It’s traditional to get up and go downtown to celebrate at sunrise (!) but since we slept through that, here are some pictures from the celebration at the American Club:

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Happy Valentine’s

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To you and yours… just this once.

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A look back

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays, Ohio, People, Travels, Washington on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Some favorite moments from 2008.

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Happy Holidays

Posted in Around the house, Bangladesh, Holidays on December 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »

From us.

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Victory Day

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

December 16th is Bangladesh’s Victory Day, the day that Bangladesh won their war of independence against Pakistan in 1971.  A few pics from around town today:

Selling flags in the circle.

A colorful splash of patriotism.

We were even serenaded!

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Eid action shots

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays, People on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

We wandered out on Eid morning to see how the whole sacrifice thing actually works. Turns out, it’s much as you would imagine sacrificing a cow.  Thanks to M for managing to take these pictures – I had to look away!
Before:

As this is quite a large cow, the whole neighborhood is in on the [...]

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Eid Mubarak

Posted in Bangladesh, Holidays on December 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today is Eid ul-Adha, or sacrificial Eid, the one where everyone sacrifices an animal.  In their front yard.  (A slightly more informed take on it – this commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God, and God’s mercy in providing a lamb instead for him to sacrifice.)
For the past couple days our neighborhood [...]

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