The nation will celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year-1429, today (Thursday) with its traditional fanfare and festivity. People especially living in rural area on Wednesday celebrated traditional Chaitra Sankranti festival marking the last day of the outgoing Bangla year. They bade farewell to the outgoing year 1428 with a fresh hope that a new sun will rise that will take away all sorrows, pains, and fears from the country after the dark chapter of Covid-19 pandemic. On this occasion we express our heartfelt gratitude and thanks to our valued readers, patrons, advertisers, contributors and well-wishers.
Pahela Baishakh is an integral part of Bangali culture. Therefore, Bangalis have been celebrating Pahela Baishakh as a universal and non-communal festival for a long period of time. Shedding the preceding year’s glooms to oblivion, we believe this day will bring the strength to the national life to uphold the rich cultural values and rituals of the Bangalis.
On this occasion we express our heartfelt gratitude
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Let the dead past bury its dead and start the day in fresh spirits, people touched by new sunshine also expressed their firm determination to turn around and overcome all odds or hurdles in the days to come.
The outgoing year, 1428, will be remembered as a bitter memory because of Covid 19 pandemic. Bangladesh lost its eminent personalities including educationists, journalists, renowned lawyers, veteran freedom fighters, politicians, noted actors and singer and leading business stalwarts last year.
Amid destruction, darkness and calamity of the Covid-19 breakout almost throughout the year of 1428, new life starts to come out again and the country looks forward with fresh hope and aspirations. Everything in nature will give an impression of freshness as if the nature takes a new birth. People also seek Allah’s blessings for the recovery of the coronavirus patients and keeping Bangladesh as well as world safe from the rogue virus.
Apart from traditional fun fare, we Bangalis also celebrate the ‘Pahela Baishakh’ as a tool against communalism and religious extremism. Therefore, on this august occasion we are also calling for a united stand against fundamentalism.
