"SLC27-W1 | A One-Day Street Journalist: Festival-centric business."
Steemian Friends,
Today, I will participate in @max-pro's challenge in the first week of the Engagement Challenge Session 27. The name of the challenge is SLC27-W1 | A One-Day Street Journalist: Festival-centric business. I hope everyone will like my writing.
I stood as a journalist for a day at the Puja festival.
What are the Festival-centric businesses in your area?
There are various types of businesses centred around festivals in my area. Businesses are organised based on the type of festival. For example, during religious festivals like Eid and Mahfil for Muslims, small stalls are set up on the roadside to sell food, children's toys, women's jewellery, perfumes, etc. During Hindu pujas, businesses selling food and children's toys are bustling on the roadside. Besides, during social and annual festivals in our country, entertainment and food businesses are organised on the roadside.
Traditional shops of our country during Puja festivals
In my area, rich, poor, Hindu, and Muslim people of the same class do business during festivals. The festivals have the largest number of shops selling local food in our country. People make a profit by setting up shops on the side of the road during fairs or social festivals at low cost.
Have you ever bought anything from these stores? Show pictures + videos and show their prices.
I shop at roadside shops during Muslim gatherings, Eid and Hindu pujas in my area. Today I visited and shopped at roadside shops during Hindu puja festivals in my area. I have shown the location of roadside shops during puja festivals in my area below using Steem-atlas pin code. As per the rules of engagement, I became a journalist for a day and made a video and review about roadside shops during puja festivals. I shared the picture with the date and my username on a piece of paper as proof.
I live in the Shyampur area of the capital, Dhaka city. Now the Hindu Puja festival is going on. During a Puja festival in the Shyampur area, I saw shops selling food and children's toys as well as women's cosmetics on the roadside. There are a few local food shops next to the Puja festival. Local food includes various items of sweets and chamchom.
My name plate in hand as a journalist for a day at the Puja festival
There are many toy shops for children because children enjoy themselves the most during festivals. I have seen parents buying toys for their children from the shops the most. I have also seen women's handicraft and jewellery shops on the side of the road. A lot of people come to visit during festivals. Especially in the afternoon, people participate more in the puja festival.
Toy shops on the side of the road during the Puja festival
Toys | per pcs | 100 Taka(Local) | 6 Steem |
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Girls Bags | per Pcs | 150 Taka(Local) | 9 Steem |
During festivals, roadside food stalls are crowded. Street vendors sell chatpati and fuchka from vans or small temporary stalls. I went to the Puja festival and ate chatpati from a roadside stall, which was very tasty.
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Why are people more attracted to street stalls during festivals?
During festivals, goods are purchased at low prices from roadside shops. Festivals mean joy, so everyone, young and old, shops at roadside shops to have fun. Parents, especially for children, buy toys from shops. Roadside shops have local food and local traditions, so people go to roadside shops during festivals. Since I was a child, I used to go to rural festivals and shop at roadside shops because I could buy kites and flutes at very low prices from the fairs.
Are these businesses contributing to preserving local culture?
Of course, the food sold in roadside shops during festivals contributes to the preservation of local traditions and culture. For example, various items made on the roadside, such as sweets and chamchoms, are made only during festivals. Rural festivals such as the fair of the month of Baishakh are a tradition of our country. In my area, local pithas are available during festivals, which are disappearing from our society day by day. In addition, local traditional foods, clothes and handmade products are seen during festivals.
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