Happy Bengali New Year

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · Apr 14, 2014

Today is the first day of Bengali new year. Happy New Year to all my beloved Bengali brothers from Bangladesh and India. Its time for celebration. সবাইকে বাংলা নতুন বছরের অনেক অনেক শুভেচ্ছা। শুভ নববর্ষ। :yahoo:
Hey, I have recently painted my house to celebrate this new year. :yay: I want to share my newly painted house to you all.

Please give your comments do you like my newly painted house? Picture quality is decent. I took this pictures just today morning by my Samsung mobile. It has 2 megapixel camera. So the quality of the pictures are not very good but still I tried to get maximum quality.

My feet.

Floor is kinda dirty mess. Should have washed the floor to look clean. Anyways...

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #2 · Apr 14, 2014

My rooftop garden. I love my garden a lot. :smitten:

White rose :bounce:

I love flowers. :kiss3:

Mango :bounce:

Flower :wub:

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #3 · Apr 14, 2014

I like my stairs a lot.

and this is my door.

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dopekhor

· #4 · Apr 14, 2014

I dont understand the correlation with the new year and the pictures you posted!

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mr.jason_kz.

· #5 · Apr 15, 2014

New year = new house, new paint?

mirzazeehan

· #6 · Apr 15, 2014

@iamgr8...i loved the captions of ur pics! :cheers:

manbil777

· #7 · Apr 16, 2014 (Edited)

dopekhor said:
I dont understand the correlation with the new year and the pictures you posted!

Me neither - but I guess the onset of the Bengali new year means fragrant new buds on the Mango tree (Aam'er Bol). Together with new paint, new aangik (আঙ্গিক) and new cleanliness...

The house looks neatly painted although I'm not sure my personal colour preference would be the same as yours. But interesting and শুভ নববর্ষ to you as well!

By the way - looks like that mango tree is on the roof and is it a dwarf variety?

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manbil777

· #8 · Apr 17, 2014

Double Post

manbil777

· #9 · Apr 17, 2014

Triple Post again...bugs in the forum software...

iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #10 · Apr 17, 2014

jason.kazi said:
New year = new house, new paint?

We had decided to paint our house on this occasion.

Hey what about decorating it with Bougainvillea flowers? What trees will look good?

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dopekhor

· #11 · Apr 17, 2014

biya shaadi korchen naki bhaiya?

FYI the hinduization is slowly talking away the charm of the Phoela Boishak for me, wtf is a Mongol Shobhajatra? Whats up with painting faces that resemble hindu worship statues?

If this is a celebration about being Bengali, why do they forget that for a more then a half a millenia Bengal has had a deep love with Islam and also it was the largest Muslim province in Undivided India.

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #12 · Apr 17, 2014

dopekhor said:
biya shaadi korchen naki bhaiya?

FYI the hinduization is slowly talking away the charm of the Phoela Boishak for me, wtf is a Mongol Shobhajatra? Whats up with painting faces that resemble hindu worship statues?

If this is a celebration about being Bengali, why do they forget that for a more then a half a millenia Bengal has had a deep love with Islam and also it was the largest Muslim province in Undivided India.

Mongol shobhajatra is the main celebration of Pohela Boishakh since a while. Its not a sudden new inclusion. Those are masks to show good and evil in colors.

This year's celebration pictures

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #13 · Apr 17, 2014

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #14 · Apr 17, 2014

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iamgr8

Discussion Starter · #16 · Apr 17, 2014

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dopekhor

· #17 · Apr 17, 2014

iamgr8 said:
Mongol shobhajatra is the main celebration of Pohela Boishakh since a while. Its not a sudden new inclusion. Those are masks to show good and evil in colors.

This year's celebration pictures

We are muslims thats not how we ward of evil besides isnt the focus of Pohela Boishak the harvest season I don't see any farming elements being incorporated!

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samaruf

· #18 · Apr 17, 2014

Those masks look similar to the ones you see during Durga Puja time. My take is just like how Arab culture is influenced by Islam, the indigenous Bengali culture is influenced by Hinduism. The celebration of Pohela Boishakh and other Bengali festivals have their roots in ancient religious festivals of this land. This is akin to Christmas actually being a pagan festival inherited from a Roman harvest ritual but then modified to celebrate the birth of Jesus who was born during August-October time period.

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dopekhor

· #19 · Apr 17, 2014

samaruf said:
Those masks look similar to the ones you see during Durga Puja time. My take is just like how Arab culture is influenced by Islam, the indigenous Bengali culture is influenced by Hinduism. The celebration of Pohela Boishakh and other Bengali festivals have their roots in ancient religious festivals of this land. This is akin to Christmas actually being a pagan festival inherited from a Roman harvest ritual but then modified to celebrate the birth of Jesus who was born during August-October time period.

Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar, the renowned grandson of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the 3rd Mughal Emperor, introduced the Bengali Calendar. For relatively easier tax collection, Akbar changed the practice of agricultural tax collection according to the Hijri calendar. He ordered an improvement because the Hijri calendar, being lunar, did not agree with the harvest sessions and eventually the farmers faced severe difficulties in paying taxes out of season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohela_Boishakh

I just don't understand why can't we celebrate it without Hinduizing it, there are so many more things to do.

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HereWeGo

· #20 · Apr 17, 2014

^^ Please do celebrate the way you wish.... And let other people do it their way..

live and let live.

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