Nation celebrates Pahela Baishakh

FE Team | Published: April 16, 2016 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

Thousands of people thronged streets and different popular places in the capital and elsewhere across the country as the nation celebrated their most colourful and traditional festival Pahela Baishakh on Thursday to welcome the Bangla New Year 1423, reports BSS.
Cultural and musical groups started off the first day of the Bangla year with songs and other performances at city parks while students of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University and youngsters brought out a "Mongol Shobhajatra" (procession of good wishes) in the morning as part of the carnival.
 The day broke with the chirping of birds as usual, but the singing of "Esho hey Baishakh esho esho" everywhere in Bangladesh  gave the day really a festive dimension.
Men in traditional pajamas and 'punjabi' and women in white and red saris joined the celebrations along with children in colourful attires, streaming through Dhaka streets as the first light of the sun rang in the Bangla New Year.
The people gorged themselves on Bangla delicacies at home and places of Boishakhi congregations, the major ones being in the capital's Ramna Batamul and on Dhaka University campus.