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Bengali New Year: Traditions & Festivities

Pôhela Boishakh is the Bengali New Year, celebrated on April 15. It marks the first day of the Bengali calendar and is celebrated across West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam with processions, fairs, and family gatherings. Traditional greetings are exchanged and people wear traditional attire like saris and dhoti-kurtas. In some areas, early morning processions take place involving music, dance and costumes. It is also an important day for Bengali businessmen who settle accounts and open new ledgers, signifying a fresh start to the new year. Special foods like ilish fish curry and rosogolla are prepared and eaten to celebrate

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Bengali New Year: Traditions & Festivities

Pôhela Boishakh is the Bengali New Year, celebrated on April 15. It marks the first day of the Bengali calendar and is celebrated across West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam with processions, fairs, and family gatherings. Traditional greetings are exchanged and people wear traditional attire like saris and dhoti-kurtas. In some areas, early morning processions take place involving music, dance and costumes. It is also an important day for Bengali businessmen who settle accounts and open new ledgers, signifying a fresh start to the new year. Special foods like ilish fish curry and rosogolla are prepared and eaten to celebrate

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Pôhela Boishakh (Bengali New Year) is the first day of the Bengali calendar.

In
Bengali, Pohela means ‘first’. Baisakh is the first month of the Bengali
calendar.This festival is celebrated on 15 April in the Indian states of West
Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam (Barak Valley) by Bengalis regardless of
religious faith.The festival is celebrated with processions, fairs and family time.
The traditional greeting for Bengalis in the new year is "Shubho Noboborsho" which
is literally "Happy New Year". the history of the bengali calendar is attributed to
the 7 th century indian king shashanka. Various dynasties whose territories
extended into Bengal, prior to the 13th-century, used the Vikrami calendar.
Buddhist texts and inscriptions created in the Pala Empire era mention the
adaptation of Vikramsamvadh calendar in the regions of the eastern states.

During Pohela Boishakh, people wear traditional attire, namely women clad in saris
and men dressed in kurta- dhoti , visit their families and friends and spend time
together.
In some parts of the world, Bengalis even hold small-scale processions called the
Prabhat Pheri that begins early morning. These processions see people dressed up
with floats or traditional wear, dance troupes are called to showcase their
performance on Rabindra Nath Tagore melodies and folk songs.

Haal Khata is a festival celebrated on the occasion of Pohela Boishakh in order to


complete all the account reckonings of the last year and open a new ledger. It is
observed by the Bengali businessmen, shopkeepers and traders. It signifies that
every year starts with a new beginning.
On this auspicious day many delicacies prepared like Chingri Malai Curry, Kosha
Mangsho, Shorshe Ilish.
desserts like payesh, and all time favourite rosogulla as it signifies the opening
of the new book of account.

this is how the history, and some events that take place during this auspicious
day of a bengali.

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