Benapole, June 4 -- In the heart of Jashore's Sharsha upazila, a symphony of hammers plays out across Navaron Rail Market amid the heat and haze of coal-fired forges.

As Eid-ul-Azha looms on the horizon, the blacksmiths of this once-sleepy marketplace have entered their busiest season, an annual crucible of fire, faith and sheer physical endurance.

Here, where iron meets flame and tradition melds with necessity, the artisans labour ceaselessly to craft the indispensable tools of Qurbani, the sacred ritual of animal sacrifice.

Knives, machetes, choppers, and cleavers, each meticulously shaped by hand, gleam like polished silver under the dim glow of furnace light.

The market is alive with an intensity found nowhere else in the calendar...