Abu Bakar Siddique

“It is a jail, isn’t it? Have you ever heard that a person lived happily in a jail?”

Thousands of readymade garment workers in Gazipur have been passing days in uncertainty as over four dozen factories remain closed for more than two months in the coronavirus fallout.

It was around 11 in the morning of Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims raised their hands seeking divine blessings for mankind and forgiveness, as the first phase of the Biswa Ijtema concluded yesterday with the Akheri Munajat or final supplication conducted in Bangla on the Turag.

Mosammat Peara Begum has been living with vivid memories of the acid attack on her for her refusal to engage in an extra marital affair, as if it happened only yesterday.

The place can accommodate around 65 people -- a tin-roofed one storey building surrounded by trees.

They wore new clothes and had special food on Eid day but that did not make them feel any good at the Old Rehabilitation Centre in Gazipur.