NOUVEL AN BANGALAIS

This feast is a legacy of the Emperor Mughal Akbar and the collection of taxes. The Islamic calendar, based on the lunar cycle, could not equate tax collection with the end of harvests. Akbar instituted a fixed date that allowed the determination of the tax based on the harvest. Today, it is an opportunity to parade on the streets, to organise fairs, to feast with the family. Many of the Bangladeshi people return to their families to celebrate New Year. Beware, if you travel at this time, the transportation is taken.

In the Chittagong Hill Tracts region, this festival has a special colour. Some ethnic minorities aspergent water in a purification ritual intended to host the new year, which is reminiscent of the Songkran in Thailand at the same time. For other tribes, it is the to drink a lot of alcohol and to visit his neighbours.