Rituals and Facts The day starts with people visiting the temples to seek blessings from god for a prosperous year. Bengali business owners mark this day as the start of a new accounts book called ...

Bengali New Year's History Thanks to the Mughal ... Many people start their day with a ritual plunge in the Ganges or other sacred rivers at dawn. Traditional apparel such as kurtas, pyjamas ...

The Bengali roshogolla, Chef Tarveen notes ... “It is traditionally associated with the centuries-old ritual of ‘Niladri Bije ...

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 ...