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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Pohela boishakh


Bengali New Year (Bengali: নববর্ষ Nôbobôrsho) or Pôhela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ Pôhela Boishakh or পয়লা বৈশাখ Pôela Boishakh), occurring on 14th April, is the aboriginal day of the Bengali calendar, acclaimed in both Bangladesh and Indian accompaniment of West Bengal, and in Bengali communities in the added Indian states like : Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Orissa and all over India as able-bodied area the Bengali association arises . It coincides with the New Year's Days of abundant Southern Asian calendars.
Pôhela Boishakh connects all indigenous Bengalis irrespective of religious and bounded differences. In India, in West Bengal, Tripura and Assam, it is a accessible (state) anniversary and is about acclaimed in 14 April every year (or as per the Hindu Bengali calendar) . In Bangladesh, it is a civic anniversary .
In Bengali, Pohela stands for ‘first’ and Boishakh is aboriginal ages of Bengali calendar. The anniversary is acclaimed according to the Bengali Calendar.[1][2] Bangla New Year's anniversary are carefully affiliated with rural activity in Bengal. Usually on Pohela Boishakh, the home is thoroughly adjourned and cleaned; humans bath aboriginal in the morning and dress in acceptable clothes. They absorb abundant time of the day visiting relatives, accompany and neighbours. Appropriate foods are able to absorb guests. This is one rural anniversary that has become awfully big in the cities, abnormally in Dhaka.
Boishakhi fairs are abiding in abounding locations of the country. Assorted agronomical products, acceptable handicrafts, toys, cosmetics, as able-bodied as assorted kinds of aliment and sweets are awash at these fairs. The fairs aswell accommodate entertainment, with singers and dancers staging jatra (traditional plays), pala gan, kobigan, jarigan, gambhira gan, gazir gan and alkap gan. They present folk songs as able-bodied as baul, marfati, murshidi and bhatiali songs. Narrative plays like Laila-Majnu, Yusuf-Zulekha and Radha-Krishna are staged. Among added attractions of these fairs are boob shows and merry-go-rounds. Panta Ilish - a acceptable bowl of extra rice blood-soaked in baptize with absurd Hilsa, supplemented with broiled angle (Shutki), pickles (Achar), lentils (dal), blooming chillies and onion - a accepted bowl for the Pohela Boishakh anniversary in the city-limits of Kolkata and the accomplished of West Bengal. The a lot of colourful New Year's Day anniversary takes abode in Dhaka. Large numbers of humans accumulate aboriginal in the morning beneath the banyan timberline at Ramna Park area Chhayanat artists accessible the day with Rabindranath Tagore's acclaimed song, এসো, হে বৈশাখ, এসো এসো Esho, he Boishakh, Esho Esho (Come, O Boishakh, Come, Come). A agnate commemoration affable the new year is aswell captivated at the Convention of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Students and agents of the convention yield out a colourful advance and array annular the campus. Social and cultural organisations bless the day with cultural programmes. Newspapers accompany out appropriate supplements. There are aswell appropriate programmes on radio and television. The accepted Bengali year is 1419.Today, Pohela Boishakh celebrations aswell mark a day of cultural accord after acumen amid chic or religious affiliations. Of the above holidays acclaimed in Bangladesh, alone Pohela Boishakh comes after any preexisting expectations (specific religious identity, ability of gift-giving, etc.). Unlike holidays like Eid ul-Fitr, area bathrobe up in abundant clothes has become a norm, or Christmas area exchanging ability has become an basic allotment of the holiday, Pohela Boishakh is absolutely about adulatory the simpler, rural roots of the Bengal. As a result, added humans can participate in the anniversary calm after the accountability of accepting to acknowledge one's class, religion, or banking capacity.

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