For a Bengali, an ideal Poila Baisakh — or the Bengali New Year — means new clothes, a ritual feast along with a box of sweets and a new calendar in hand. Calendars being sorted ahead of Poila Baisakh ...

At different times of the year, we often notice our cities and towns adorned in vibrant colours. They are painted yellow on the first day of Falgun. Baishakh is welcomed with fairs and rallies, red ...

Today is the Bengali New Year, known in Bangla as Poila Boishakh. A number of Indian calendars, of course, have their new year around now: the Punjabi, Assamese and Tamil, to name a few. The modern ...

Only a few weeks ago, Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year's day (Bangla Noboborsho) with unprecedented razzmatazz – colourful festoons donned the apartments in high-rise buildings, rickshaws, and ...

The “Bangalee way” in the sense of a single, linear way is a myth at best, and nationalist propaganda at worst. Let us think about the origin of the Bangla Naboborsho, how it evolved through the years ...

The change has made Ashwin a 31-day month, which means Kartik will start on Thursday and the season of Hemanta is delayed by a day as the revised calendar went into effect from Wednesday. Some ...

For the first time, the Bangla month of Ashshin has been completed in 31 days this year as the Bangla calendar has been revised. Mohammad Anwar Hossain, secretary of Bangla Academy told Dhaka Tribune ...