Sunday, April 13, 2008

Pohela Baishak (Bengali New Year)

Tomorrow is the Bengali New year (Pohela Baishakh). Pohela Baisakh is freedom of mind, heart and soul. It is the most important festival in Bengali culture. Everybody not only young people but also old people enjoy this festival very much. To the young boys and girls it is as like as velentines day, when all couples and friends alike take a stroll down the park. Sometimes it is called as Panta-Illish festival. People enjoy Panta and Illish on that day. The city becomes a day full of color, actually not only city whole country.

It is the first day of the first month of Bengali year. Naba Barsha a new opening, a new anticipation, filled with delight, happiness and wealth. The system of celebrating Nababarsha or Pahela Baishakh (1st of Baishak) was introduced by Akbar the Great.

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