The buzz dying down at city Iftar outlets

Surprisingly, the traditional Iftar markets in the city now fail to draw food connoisseurs as before. Each year all makeshift Iftar outlets used to experience a heavy rush. But this time it is a different scenario. I have been a regular customer for more than a decade at the city's Bailey Road iftar market, where I experienced heavy rush every previous year. I had to dash people to reach each food counter. But on my visit there on the second day of Ramadan this time, I did not find that usual rush of people there. Of course, there were buyers, but no more hustles as before. It is possibly because people have become more health-conscious and they have realised that though mouth-watering, those foods are ultimately not good for health.

Parveen Mumtaz

Shantinagor Bazaar, Dhaka