Nabanna
nobanno bengali নবান্ন nobānno lit new feast bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated food dance music bangladesh indian state west bengal tripura assam barak valley festival food many local preparation bengali cuisine like pitha cooked festival celebrated mela called nabanna mela villager local major religious group join festival equal participation festival get lot support creative army bengali culture several poet musician baul painter flock mass gathering famous play written nabanna bijon bhattacharya depicts sad incident great bengal famine nowadays festival nabanna celebrated every bengali year st day agrahayan dhaka organised jatiya nabanna utshab udjapan parshad national harvest festival committee since shahriar salam founder main planner organisation huge number cultural activist organisation performing day long festival people several village howrah even district west bengal come people come visit mela addition participate many cultural programme competition like pithe making preparation different sort bengali cake seatand draw senior citizen walking competition etc artcamp may attract creative minded people artist different state participate rare item rural bengal dhenki oldstyle domestic rice mill paddy different variety directly farmer house exhibited exhibition ground taste delicious bengali dish like patisapta payesh latest addition vegetable payesh jilipipi jilipi etc festival bengal timehonoured culture heritage presented form baul song chhoudance jatra tarja kobigaan etc artist come different part state perform talent expertise front thousand appreciative gathering moreover refurbish collection folk art exhibitioncumsale stall handicraft made rural artisan several dance music form grown ritual accompanied festival example chhau bihu etc also name nabanna associated several rural welfare project bank also associated indian people theatre association ipta movement bengali theatre pathbreaking production nabanna ipta motivating force lefttilted political approach next decade stage luminary like utpal dutt glow brilliance jahangiri mahmood nasir navanna islam sirajul jamal ahmed ed banglapedia national encyclopedia bangladesh second ed asiatic society bangladesh acharya namrata september paddy production likely higher year wb spite flood business standard new delhi retrieved november – outline rice growing season