DESTINATION: ‘NANABARI’! … Ahona captures her little girls’ palpable excitement in a photograph just minutes before they board the train to Rajshahi from Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday afternoon. She was on her way to her parents’ house with her husband, two daughters and niece for the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. PHOTO: PRABIR DAS

Students of Dhaka University’s Fine Arts faculty painting the Joynul Shishu Niketon on the Charukola premises in bright colours and Baishakh motifs just ahead of the upcoming Bangla New Year. Every year, they decorate the premises and the adjacent streets for days, before bringing out the massive “Mongol Shobha Jatra” on the day of the occassion. Photo: ANISUR RAHMAN