Eid 2008 ~ A Photo Story

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Eid Celebrations!!!
Bangladeshi Teachers & Students across the world celebrate Eid with fanfare …

There’s more to life than money and professional success. Let’s invest time in our children. It’s them who’ll be around when we won’t. These were our prayers for our daughter, Annapurna, during Eidul Fitr this year. And all children of Bangladesh. Child: Amira Labiba Chowdhury (Annapurna) Mother: Tahmina Labib Father : Asrar Chowdhury

Photo by: Nirjhar Sinha Rounaq National Bank Public School and College	Photo by: Syeda Nafisa Nawal (Child Heaven School Chittagong)

Photo Feature: On Top of The World

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Standing 7000 feet over sea level, the city of Darjeeling has long been a coveted tourist spot for people who love adventures. Sharp bends in the roads, steep mountains, and stretches of tea gardens and wild forests make Darjeeling, India one of the best tourist destinations in the world. Here are some photos from my recent visit to Darjeeling.

Photo Feature : The City of Joy

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The city of Kolkata, India (previously known as Calcutta) is one of the oldest and vibrant cities of South Asia. The buildings, trams, tangas and the lifestyle in general – all take you back to the colonial era, when the British Rule was in full swing. Here are some photos from my visit to Kolkata, earlier this month.

It has been named the ‘City of Joy’ the way Dominique Lapierre, the famous French author has called the city in a novel (published in 1985) of the same name. Now a major motion picture (released in 1992), the city of Kolkata is rightfully called the ‘City of Joy’.

Eid on Foreign Terrains

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Many of us to go to foreign lands, thousands of miles away from our friends and family, to seek higher education. There, in spite of the fact that we are far away from our beloved parents, comes Eid and other celebrations. This is what Eid looks like, in a home away from home…

Special thanks to Faiyaz & Bilash (Canada), Saikat (Malaysia) and Nafid (Netherlands) for sending in their Eid Pictures.

Two Bangladeshi students, who spent their first Eid outside the country, express their feelings

Nafid Haque (Graduate Student, University of Groningen, Netherlands) :

This Eid was very different from all the other Eid’s of my life. This time no one was there to wake me up and push me to get ready for the Eid prayer. The first time in my life I went for the Eid prayer cycling, the first Eid where I did not get to hug my dad and my brother on the Eid day. It is just about two months I have been living in Holland and here I met Mr. Asad who is well settled here for over 15 years now. He has been very kind and helpful to me since I arrived here though I met him after I came here. He invited me to his house on the Eid day and finally I felt somewhat like home while I spent my first Eid with them.

Sonia Sharmin Islam (Graduate Student, North Carolina State University, USA) :

Eid at Raleigh was not that bad. Every year, on Eid, there is a big Jamat and around 5000 people including both men and women gather there. On the Eid day, I went to the Eid prayer and there were Muslims from several countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Indonesia. People were gathered to pray and see each other. There are several Bangladeshi families here. Usually the people cook food at home and they try to see each other by turn. Each family fixes a time slot and other families go there in that alloted time. Students really enjoy Eid here. Most of them are unmarried or live single. So they go to these families at each time slot and move around the whole day .

I went for breakfast and dinner only and we had lots of fun since it was a weekend. If eids are on working days and children have important classes and exams at school, parents like to send their children to school. Otherwise, they just take one day’s break from everything (office or chidren’s school) and try to celebrate the great festival.

Photo Feature : Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, USA

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Longwood Gardens is one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the United States. Situated in Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, this 1,050 acres (4.2 km2) garden consists of 20 outdoor gardens and 20 indoor gardens and open woodlands and meadows. Established in 1906, the garden celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2006. Here are some of the photos that I took during my visit to this picturesque place.

Photo Feature: Kantaji Temple, Dinajpur

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Mahdin Mahboob is a student of BRAC University. Recently he went on a trip to discover the traditions and heritage of the country. He went to Dinajpur to see the famous Kantaji Temple from up close. He took photographs of the temple for Star Campus. We produce some of those photographs for the readers.