Bengali business owners mark this day as the start of a new accounts book called ‘Haal Khata.’ Special puja of lord ‘Ganesh’ and ‘Laxmi’ is performed for a prosperous business year.

Pohela Boishakh, otherwise popularly known as Pahela Baisakhi or Poila Baisakh, is the celebration of the Bengali New Year or Nabo Barsho in West Bengal as well as Bangladesh. It celebrates the advent ...

The backlash against Pahela Baishakh and broader Bengali culture is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. Extending her heartfelt greetings to all, including expatriate Bangladeshis on Pahela ...

Happy New to all my Bengali friends. May you all have only good memories all through the year! Lots and lots of wishes for the New Year. Hope this year brings you peace and much joy. Subho Noboborsho!

Pahela Baishakh is perhaps the sole festival that comes in every Bengali's life with a call to link the past with the present and welcome the New Year with rapturous rhythms of rejuvenation ...

It is the Bengali New Year celebrated in mid-April. The first month of Bengali calendar (Baisakh) is considered auspicious for marriages, etc. The Bengali New Year celebration is popularly known ...

When is Bengali New Year in 2024? Know about Bengali New Year and the day and date on which Bengali New Year falls this year. Information about holidays and important days in 2015. Find out when is ...

If there's one constant in the lives of Bengalis, and on days like the Bengali New Year, celebrated on April 15, it is the love of food. Contrary to its stereotype, Bengali food has enough and ...