City Desk :
The two-day festival of “Bangla New Year-1429” that coincided with the birth anniversaries of two celebrated Bengali poets- Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam – concluded at the Bangladesh New Delhi mission on the eighth instant.
As part of the festival, a cultural evening was organised especially for some selected guests including diplomats, officials and journalists.
To celebrate the occasion, the mission arranged the colourful cultural evening symbolizing the Bangladesh’s rich cultural heritage.
A team of artistes displayed their solo and group performances with Bangla songs before the audience.
The high commission delayed the arrangement of Bangla New Year celebrations due to the holy month of Ramzan, reports BSS.
The programme started with the famous Baishakhi song “Esho He Baishakh Eso Eso” and a number of popular songs “Baje Re Baje Dhol, Ailo Ailo Ailo Re Vora Baishakh, Ami Takdum Takdum Bajai Bangledesher Dhol” were performed at the function.
Besides, famous Nazrul songs – “O Mon Ramjaner Oi Rozar Sheshe Elo Khushir Eid”, “Shukno Patar Nupur Paye” and Rabindra Sangeet – “Aaji Bangladesher Rridoy Hote, a patriotic song were also sung by the musical troupe.
Dozens of envoys from different diplomatic missions based in New Delhi enjoyed the cultural evening along with other distinguished guests.
The function was followed by dinar. Different types of traditional Bangladeshi dishes like Bhat (rice), Dal, Vorta, Vaji, Pitha-puli, semai and payes-were served in the dinar.
Earlier, a “Mangal Shobhajatra” (procession for wellbeing) was brought out at the chancery premises. Diplomats along with other guests and officers, employees and staffs of the mission joined the procession.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran and Mrs Zakia Hasnat Imran led the “Mangal Shobhajatra”, which is considered an expression of the secular identity of the Bangladeshi people.
The processionists wearing masks and colourful dresses and carrying different types of replicas of birds, animals and other motifs paraded different roads on the mission premises and later ended the rally at the main gate of the high commission.
On Saturday, Bangladesh High Commission organized similar programmes for the family members of the mission’s officers and employees to celebrate the “Bangla New Year-1429” with a festive mood.
As part of the celebration, “Mangal Shobhajatra” (procession for wellbeing) was also brought out at the chancery premises on Saturday morning by the mission’s officers, employees, staffs and their family members.
