Come Orosh, food is promised, though controlling the crowd becomes harder with increased numbers from the villages and near and far from within the city. A stalwart of the old “intellectual Indira Road”, a retired man enters with skepticism the spiral path to the cushioned top. Is there a difference between our Dhaka Darbar and the New Delhi Kawali-sites, where known criminals take refuge in a part of town ostentatiously poorer than the rest of the capital? During the Orosh, and many months before it, the wall heralding the Pir artfully transformed the political graffiti of Indira Road with spiritual introductions. If their religion asks them to use the fields—what can orthodox Islam say to these masses overflowing into the city walls?

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 08, 2020 11:26 UTC