ty as Bangalees are to welcome the first day of the Bangla New Year with due fervour, fanfare and festivity. Pahela Baishakh holds a special place in every Bangalee’s heart. They greet the new year and bid a fond farewell to the old. They welcome things that are to come and cherish memories that they hold, leaving behind all sorrows and frustrations of the past one year. Meanwhile, Bangalees on Monday observed Chaitra Sangkranti, the last sunset of the old year 1421, a year mostly troubled with destructive political programmes like hartal and blockade. Today’s sunrise ushered in a new year with a new hope for peace and prosperity of the country. People in colourful attire are all agog to throng different Baishakhi venues in the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere to cheer up. By tradition, city-dwellers begin the day with taking ‘panta bhat’ (watered rice) with fried hilsa, green chillies and onion instead of a big filling breakfast. They then go outdoors to revel in daylong programmes staged across the metropolis. Like the past, different socio-cultural organisations have chalked up elaborate programmes to celebrate Bangalees’ largest annual cultural jamboree. The day’s main programme begins at Ramna Batamul at dawn. Artistes of Chhayanaut, a leading cultural outfit, render Tagore’s famous song ‘Eso Hey Baishakh, Eso Eso…’, with an assemblage of people joining in the chorus. Other celebration points include Dhaka University campus, the nerve centre of the carnival, Rabindra Sarabar and historic Suhrawardy Udyan. Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University brings out Mongol Shobhajatra, a Bangla new year’s parade, from the campus around 10:00am. A major attraction on Pahela Baishakh mornings, the procession with multi-coloured masks and replicas of birds and animals based on folk motifs from country’s traditional folklore is a signature event of the festival. The day is a public holiday. President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Raushan Ershad and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia greeted the countrymen on the occasion. Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar and other private TV stations will telecast live programme of “Chhayanaut”. Theatre and performing arts department of Dhaka University has arranged a four-day show of ‘Champak Nagarer Upakatha’ [Myth of Champak Nagar] at Nat Mandal. The play will be staged at 7:00pm every day from today. Bangla department will also organise a Baishakhi festival at Amtola in front of Arts Building while music department will hold a concert at Battola near Aparajeyo Bangla. Rabindra Sarabar will see ‘Coca-Cola Alokito Baishakh’ at 9:00pm where Nagar Baul, Dalchhut, Aditi Mohsin, Nemesis and baul Shafi Mondal and his troupe will perform. A daylong crafts fair and pitha mela will take place on the premises of the National Museum today. Like previous years, music school Shurer Dhara has organised a programme on the open space of Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Besides, Shilpakala Academy, Shishu Academy, Bangla Academy, National Museum, Folklore Foundation and cultural institutes of the different indigenous communities will also organise different programmes. To mark the day, improved diet will be provided at all jails, hospitals and orphanage centres across the country. Meanwhile, all the museums remain open today to students and disabled children without tickets. Bangladesh missions abroad also organise programmes on the occasion. Local administrations will organise events like discussions, cultural functions and Baishakhi fair at all upazilas and in divisional cities and district towns. Meanwhile, tight security has been taken everywhere to ensure peaceful celebration of the festival as nobody expects the recurrence of the 2001 traumatic experience at Ramna Batamul. Ramna Batamul, Dhaka University campus and other parts of the country have been brought under the special security bulwark. “We’ll cover Dhaka under a thorough security net to ensure peaceful Pahela Baishakh celebrations,” said Asaduzzaman Mia, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, at a press briefing on Sunday. DMP has asked organisers of programmes to finish their cultural events by 5:30pm on Pahela Baishakh. Meanwhile, lawmen, including police and RAB, visited celebration venues with modern equipment to ensure security in and around the festival venues. Plain-clothes police will keep a close watch on all the places of gatherings, said the DMP chief. Pahela Baishakh is being celebrated in both Bangladesh and some other Indian states, including Paschimbanga, Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Orissa. The Bangla year was introduced during the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar to facilitate tax collection from 1556-1605 AD. On this day, traders and shopkeepers open halkhata (fresh accounts book) and offer sweets to their clients and visitors.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The day passions come alive:Daily Sun
ty as Bangalees are to welcome the first day of the Bangla New Year with due fervour, fanfare and festivity. Pahela Baishakh holds a special place in every Bangalee’s heart. They greet the new year and bid a fond farewell to the old. They welcome things that are to come and cherish memories that they hold, leaving behind all sorrows and frustrations of the past one year. Meanwhile, Bangalees on Monday observed Chaitra Sangkranti, the last sunset of the old year 1421, a year mostly troubled with destructive political programmes like hartal and blockade. Today’s sunrise ushered in a new year with a new hope for peace and prosperity of the country. People in colourful attire are all agog to throng different Baishakhi venues in the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere to cheer up. By tradition, city-dwellers begin the day with taking ‘panta bhat’ (watered rice) with fried hilsa, green chillies and onion instead of a big filling breakfast. They then go outdoors to revel in daylong programmes staged across the metropolis. Like the past, different socio-cultural organisations have chalked up elaborate programmes to celebrate Bangalees’ largest annual cultural jamboree. The day’s main programme begins at Ramna Batamul at dawn. Artistes of Chhayanaut, a leading cultural outfit, render Tagore’s famous song ‘Eso Hey Baishakh, Eso Eso…’, with an assemblage of people joining in the chorus. Other celebration points include Dhaka University campus, the nerve centre of the carnival, Rabindra Sarabar and historic Suhrawardy Udyan. Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University brings out Mongol Shobhajatra, a Bangla new year’s parade, from the campus around 10:00am. A major attraction on Pahela Baishakh mornings, the procession with multi-coloured masks and replicas of birds and animals based on folk motifs from country’s traditional folklore is a signature event of the festival. The day is a public holiday. President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Raushan Ershad and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia greeted the countrymen on the occasion. Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar and other private TV stations will telecast live programme of “Chhayanaut”. Theatre and performing arts department of Dhaka University has arranged a four-day show of ‘Champak Nagarer Upakatha’ [Myth of Champak Nagar] at Nat Mandal. The play will be staged at 7:00pm every day from today. Bangla department will also organise a Baishakhi festival at Amtola in front of Arts Building while music department will hold a concert at Battola near Aparajeyo Bangla. Rabindra Sarabar will see ‘Coca-Cola Alokito Baishakh’ at 9:00pm where Nagar Baul, Dalchhut, Aditi Mohsin, Nemesis and baul Shafi Mondal and his troupe will perform. A daylong crafts fair and pitha mela will take place on the premises of the National Museum today. Like previous years, music school Shurer Dhara has organised a programme on the open space of Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Besides, Shilpakala Academy, Shishu Academy, Bangla Academy, National Museum, Folklore Foundation and cultural institutes of the different indigenous communities will also organise different programmes. To mark the day, improved diet will be provided at all jails, hospitals and orphanage centres across the country. Meanwhile, all the museums remain open today to students and disabled children without tickets. Bangladesh missions abroad also organise programmes on the occasion. Local administrations will organise events like discussions, cultural functions and Baishakhi fair at all upazilas and in divisional cities and district towns. Meanwhile, tight security has been taken everywhere to ensure peaceful celebration of the festival as nobody expects the recurrence of the 2001 traumatic experience at Ramna Batamul. Ramna Batamul, Dhaka University campus and other parts of the country have been brought under the special security bulwark. “We’ll cover Dhaka under a thorough security net to ensure peaceful Pahela Baishakh celebrations,” said Asaduzzaman Mia, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, at a press briefing on Sunday. DMP has asked organisers of programmes to finish their cultural events by 5:30pm on Pahela Baishakh. Meanwhile, lawmen, including police and RAB, visited celebration venues with modern equipment to ensure security in and around the festival venues. Plain-clothes police will keep a close watch on all the places of gatherings, said the DMP chief. Pahela Baishakh is being celebrated in both Bangladesh and some other Indian states, including Paschimbanga, Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Orissa. The Bangla year was introduced during the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar to facilitate tax collection from 1556-1605 AD. On this day, traders and shopkeepers open halkhata (fresh accounts book) and offer sweets to their clients and visitors.
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