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Vasant Panchami, also rendered Vasanta Panchami [4] [5] and Saraswati Puja in honour of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, is a festival that marks the preparation for the arrival of spring. The festival is celebrated in Indian religions in different ways depending on the region.
Throughout the Bengali calendar, many festivals are celebrated. Durga Puja is solemnized as perhaps the most significant of all celebrations in West Bengal. [ 1 ] Here is a list of the main festivals of West Bengal.
An integral part of Manasa Puja is the Arandhan or Ranna Puja.Depending on the place in West Bengal, the Manasa and Ashtanag Puja begins on any Saturday or Tuesday and on every fifth day from Naga Panchami during the Bhadro month of Bengali calendar, and on Bhadro Sankranti, Manasa and Ashtanag Puja are completed and Bisarjan is performed.
Traditional Durga [1] A Durga puja pandal Characteristic neon light images glow as late night revellers throng the streets of Kolkata during Durga Puja. Durga Puja, held in September–October, is the biggest and most important festival of West Bengal as well as of Kolkata. It marks the victory of ten-armed goddess Durga over the buffalo demon ...
Shakrain — in Dhaka at the end of the Poush of the Bengali calendar. [45] Jatiya Pitha Utsab — National Pitha (Cake) Festival. [46] Charak — 3-day-long festival in Pabna starting on the last day of the Bangla month of Chaitra. [47] Joy Bangla Concert — annual concert to mark the 7 March Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman; Nouka Baich [48 ...
Magh (Bengali: মাঘ) is the tenth month in the Bengali calendar. [1] This is the last month of the two months of winter season.This month correspond with January and February in Gregorian calendar.
Date Name Remarks English Bengali 21 February Language Movement Day: শহীদ দিবস Protests and sacrifices to protect Bengali as a national language during Bengali Language Movement of 1952. 26 March Independence Day: স্বাধীনতা দিবস Proclamation of Independence and the start of the Liberation War.
Sarasvati Pushkaram is a festival of River Sarasvati that normally occurs once every 12 years. Saraswati River is considered as the "Antarvahini" (invisible river) which flows at Triveni Sangam.