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Christmas in July
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When life gives you lemons, make lemon zest for your ponche de crème! At least, that is what some people in T&T are doing today as they celebrate “Christmas in July”. Based on social media comments, this year, many people have been making the most of the mid-year observance, welcoming it as a much-needed reprieve from 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since July 1, some have been cleaning, painting and transforming their homes with Christmas décor while enjoying the sweet strains of parang and Christmas oldies or binging on Christmas movies. Christmas lovers have been busily preparing pastelles–both meat and vegan–ham, turkey, sorrel, ginger beer, ponche de crème, wines and other Christmas fare, while others are buying some of their food ready-made or are having it all catered.
Dhaka those days was still a small town. It was old Dhaka centric. The train station, the river traffic terminal, the main trade and commercial activity and important government offices were in old Dhaka. The new Dhaka was sparsely populated and was just coming up. Only a few people lived in Dhanmandi, Gulshan, and Banani. Motijheel commercial area had only two or three big