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This photo essay on Sakrain, a traditional kite-flying festival, draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2025–2026. Through visualisation of the festival and related faith practices, the essay examines how Sakrain is celebrated not only as a ritual practice but also as a means of community building. The festival, celebrated on the last day of Poush, sustains social cohesion, generates social capital, and functions as a living form of intangible cultural heritage within a dense and historically layered urban neighbourhood.
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