Pohela Boishakh

Pohela Boishakh a traditional festival

The first day of bangla year is called Pahela Boishakh.We celebrate this day to mark the begining of the first day of bangla new year. The day is celebrated with traditional festivities across the country.The rural people arrange Boishakhi mela on this day.Shopkeepers open halkhata and offer sweets to their customers and clients.The day has a special attraction for the town people.They rise early in the morning.They put on their best dress that is payjama and panjabi.They take panta rice with dried pepper.They pass the hole day in great joy and forget the sufferings of life for the time being.In the town different organisations arrange various kinds of cultural functions.Pohela Boishakh has a great significance.It reflects our age old tradition and culture.It bears the testimony to the fact that we have a culture of our own.It is the manifestation of our cultural hertiage.