Dhaka, May 26 -- As Bangladesh prepares to observe Eid-ul-Azha this week - with the government having declared a seven-day holiday from 25 to 31 May 2026 - the country is in the grip of a familiar, feverish energy. The cattle markets of Dhaka, set up under the watch of the two city corporations, have been filling since the final week of May with traders arriving from Faridpur, Kushtia, Sirajganj, and dozens of other districts, their trucks laden with cows and goats that will soon become the centrepiece of one of Islam's most profound rituals. The smell of livestock, the haggling, the mobile banking pings as transactions are confirmed over bKash and Nagad, the knife-sharpeners setting up their grinding wheels on street corners - it is an a...