Pahela Baishakh: A token of Bengali identity
Pahela Baishakh is
one of our festival days. In our Bengali year we celebrate Pahela Baishakh on
the first Baishakh every year. The day is celebrated with traditional
festivities across the country. On this day different types of people of
different social classes come out from their respective residence and enjoy the
carnival enthusiastically and publicly because it is a public holiday. Traders
and shopkeepers open halkhata (fresh account books) and offer sweets to their
customers and clients with a view to satisfying them keeping the age-old
tradition. Children, young, adults, aged ----- all people of both male and
female look forward to celebrating this day with great hope and aspiration. At
the very dawn they go outside to celebrate Pahela Baishakh eating panta vath.
Most of the girls adorn themselves wearing fresh dress and flowers in their
locks. Young and adult boys like to sing with the traditional musical
instruments like ektara, dotara, bamboo-flute, sarinda etc. and somebody likes
to wear mask of different things. Different socio-cultural organisations draw
up elaborate programmes to celebrate Pahela Baishakh. The day's first programme
begins at dawn at Ramna Batamul where Chhayanat, a leading cultural
organisation, organises it. Bangla Academy, Shilpakala Academy, Bulbul
Lalitakala Academy, Jatiya Press Club, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh
National Museum, Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University and many other
organisations bring out colourful processions with festoons, placards, posters,
banners, masks etc. Bangladesh Betar, BTV, ETV telecast different lively
programmes describing and showing the festival activities of Pahela Baishakh.
We can't but memorise this day with great pleasure every year singing together
---------------------- ―Esho hei Baishakh Esho hei Baishakh‖
Load Shedding: A paucity of power generation
Load shedding has become a very common affair
in our daily life these days. The people living in the areas supplied with
electricity are quite familiar with the term load shedding. In the modern world
electricity plays a very important role in regulating our life. Any
interruption in the supply of this vital item of energy can put the whole
system out of order and simultaneously can paralyse our daily activities. In
our country there is hardly any area which is not affected by load shedding.
Load shedding means the discontinuation of supply of electricity. Load shedding
occurs when generation of power is less than the demand and when we distribute
electricity wrongly. It creates many problems of far-reaching consequences in
the economic and social development of the country. Most of the mills and
factories become idle and for this reason industrial production declines and
workers are retrenched. Social works and activities cannot go in order.
Students cannot study properly because of the failure of electricity. During
load shedding they are to study in dim candlelight. The housewife gropes in the
darkness in the kitchen. The shops are to close down before the closing time.
Spectators in the cinema hall spend hours in stuffy suffocation for load
shedding. All types of productions stop and the entire life comes to a
standstill during the period of load shedding. So, proper steps should be taken
to stop load shedding. By establishing more power plants, power houses and by
stopping unplanned distribution of electricity, illegal connection and reducing
system loss, we can solve this problem
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