Happy Bangla New Year – 1432
Every year 14 April before rising the sun
Bangla New Year Pohela Boisakh starts
With its new light of hope and aspirations
Singing out the song by Rabindranath Tagore
Eso he boisakh eso eso ( welcome o boiasakh welcome welcome)
Chayanot, an artist group at the Ramana Botmul, Dhaka
In so colorful dresses with so many folk songs by others too
This traditional day is celebrated by the whole country
And the other countries of the world where Bangalees live
Regarding its own cultural views, it’s an extra taste of life
Following its past glory, it reflects the people’s ways of life.
The time is for growing new leaves in the branches of the trees
And falling down the old to the ground
The roads and fields with grey leaves decorated like the carpets
That spread to shake hands having a new connection within
The moderate weather farewells the winter season
Saying Good Bye to the decay and infirmity
Coming out from home people sing and dance
The processions with the masks in the faces
Holding so many posters and placards in hands
Reflects the wonderful past
By the way the shops are designed for Halkhata
(Halkhata means paying the debts of the clients it closes the old khata
and opens the new one)
The clients are served with some sweet foods in the shops
Now the things can be seen rarely in the rural areas once hugely in yesteryear
Some play with sticks by the way in a circle
The children make fun in Nagordola (Go round in a circle)
Some prepares soaked rice for breakfast in the morning
Enjoying with green chilies, onion, salt, potato stuffing and fried fishes etc.
The procession with the masks in the faces reflects the past
With the use of fine arts it demonstrates the traditional things
Like the horse carriage, bullock carts, palanquin and so many others
O the last year, go away from us burning the trash in mind
And blaze out the new soft sun with the glory of newness
The perpetual blessings to work.
Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
13 April, 2025.
Md. Mahbubul Alam is from Bangladesh. His writer name is Mahbub John in Bangladesh. He is a Senior Teacher (English) of Harimohan Government High School, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj is a district town of Bangladesh. He is an MA in English Literature from Rajshahi College under National University. He has published three books of poems in Bangla. He writes mainly poems but other branches of literature such as prose, article, essay etc. also have been published in national and local newspapers, magazines, little magazines. He has achieved three times the Best Teacher Certificate and Crest in National Education Week in the District Wise Competition in Chapainawabganj District. He has gained many literary awards from home and abroad. His English writings have been published in Synchronized Chaos for seven years.