Benglai New Year – The Biggest Festival of Bangladesh, commonly known as Pohela Boishakh.

Benglai New Year – commonly known as Pohela Boishakh is one of the biggest festival of Bangladesh and the Bengali community all over the world as well. It generally occurs in 14^th or 15^th of April each year. The sentence of greeting sounded as “Shuvo Noboborsho”, meaning “Happy New Year”. This day is the first day of Bengali Calender which was introduced by famous Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar on March, 1584. So, it’s a heritage owned by every Bengalis.

People from all religions and races used to participate in this colorful event by wearing traditional Bengali dresses like Women in saris with their hair all decorated with flowers and Men in Traditional Panjabies.

A vivid procession organized by the students and teacher of Institute of Fine Arts, Bangladesh in Dhaka each year. This procession always holds an unique message/wish/protest each year. This year the message was -

“Bring War Criminals during the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971, under Justice and an urge for their Highest Punishment”

I, working as a SAP Consultant here in Bangladesh was enjoying the whole colorful and joyous Bengali festival with my Camera. Here I am sharing some of those gorgeous moments with you.  Hope you love these.

1. People, generally young ladies and gents used to get paint their faces or hands by some volunteer painters. The painted form holds several symbols of life like flowers, trees, wishing messages like-"Shuvo Noboborsho", National Flags and many more.

2. Hawkers are all over the Dhaka City. Same is true here too. A hawker was trying to attract the people by making continuous sound on "VooVooZella". There are many like him. So you could think about the atmosphere of whole place there.

3. A social gathering for taking "Panta-Hilsha-Rice" - A traditional Bengali recipe, specially on this day.

4. A shooting practice over the Balloons! It's a fun with family.

5. Family and friends on a local ride/manual coaster - named as "Nogordola", an essential part in any Fair here in Bangladesh.

6.The Manual Coaster - "Nogoldola" - another heritage of Bengal.

7. The Glory of Joy - "Shuvo NoboBorsho"

8. "Ektara-Dotara" - the instrument used by Spiritual Singers like "Lalon". Another heritage of bangladesh. People gathering near the stall of this equipment.

9. One of the Moral of Boishakh 1420 was - The Claim for Hanging Till Death of "Rajakars"(The War Criminals). This painting is the symbol of that - seen in front of Institute of Fine Arts, Bangladesh.

10. The Cartoons were shouting for the highest punishment of War Criminals, 1971.

11. The Culture of Bengali's ha got a nourishment from the root by their parents and ancestors.

12. Our little fellow, Our Newer Dream - To Bloom!