Tongi Friday 20th Jan 2012.
“…an annual Tablighi Jamaat Islamic movement congregation held at Tongi, Bangladesh by the river Turag. The event focuses on prayers and meditation and does not allow political discussion.” As per Wikipedia.
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You have quite a lot of material for an impressive collection of portraits. These are marvelous character studies.
The photo opportunities at Tongi yesterday were endless and we could have taken 100s more of these, except that two of us from the group ended up having a small run-in with the strong-arm of the police [called RAB in Bangladesh] and we were asked to break it up and move on. A crowd of people had gathered around us, curious to see their pictures on the camera LCD, on a narrow bridge between the market and the Ijetma camp. I guess we sort of “blocked” the flow of people across the bridge, which instigated the police to ask us to not cause a “gathering”!
BTW, I seem to be having difficulty getting your old and your new blog http://www.anitajesse.blogspot.com/2012/01/eclipse-velvet-darkness.html to load and accept comments. A glitch at Blogspot maybe? Shall try again later….
My apologies. I know how frustrating that can be. I just placed a comment at the new site (now deleted) and it seems to be working. Computers and software are quite mysterious to me. They seem to sometimes be in a bad mood and refuse to behave. I hope that is all this is and that you will soon get co-operation from Blogger.
I apologize for that strange blip in my previous message. I must be much more tired than I realized.