This year three national holidays landed side by side, and made for a nice long vacation. I just got back, but was in Mymensingh to see Durga puja here before I left. I thought this was a big show in Bogra, but that was nothing compared to Mymensingh. Mymensingh has a large Hindu population (perhaps 25%) and the locals say pujas are bigger here than anywhere else in the country. The whole town was lit up and the cloth and bamboo or styrafoam facades were everywhere.
These were from Golpukurpar, the normally drab and grey street where I buy steel stock. For a couple nights the hammering and cutting noises were drowned out by blaring Bengali and Hindi pop music from the various mondops where Durga and her associated images were set up. Outside the temples, it's a big party, with snack foods and loud loud music.
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