Poila Baisakh Begins With ‘Eso Hey Boisakh, Eso Eso’
Piku Mukherjee: Great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore once said- Eso hey boisakh, eso eso Taaposhoniswasobaaye mumurshure dao uraayebotshorer aborjona dur hoye jaak. The Bengali New Year celebration is popularly known as Poila Baisakh. So what does Poila Baisakh actually mean? Poila stands for ‘first’ while ‘Baisakh’ is the first month of the year. As per the Bengali calendar, it will mark the beginning of the year 1424. Many people believe that the New Year or Poila Baisakh is simply linked to the harvest festival of Baisakhi. Others, however, say that the Bengali calendar was first formed by Mughal emperor Akbar in the 15th century. লুপ্তপ্রায় হালখাতার খোঁজে নববর্ষ Bengalis are quickly forgetting the traditional old traditional ways of celebrating the ‘Naba Barsho’ but still them celebrated Nababarsho with traditional food and new clothes. Chaitra Sell was the beginning of this celebration. However, people still wear new clothes, exchange sweets and ...
