Baishakh

A time to celebrate , to redeem the old pledge. Baishakh is that time of the year when we celebrate ourselves throught recalling the culture traditions we are heir to.It is occasion for us as a nation to retrace our steps to the first tentative steps our anoestors took in the inauguration of the heritage we are today part of . As Baishakh dawns today ,in this year of 1414, it becames our collective responsibility as a people to renew the old pledge and rekindle the old dreams. More importantly, it is a time for us to sit back and dwell on all the achievements we have made and all the failures we have experienced in the series of generational journeys we have through time. In a very broad sense, Pahlea Baishakh is a tima for us to go looking for our roots, a job we willdo yet once more today. The various festivals that will break out across the country in celibration of the day will be a testament to the values ,social as well as cultural,that we have always held dear.The explosion of arts and craft, the magnificence of song and the magic of poetry are what will symbolise the glory of the day. And the glory will reflect itself through the tempestuousness with which nature , in the from Baishakh rains and storms, Paints the land.In the other words, it is a sense of idealism laced witha necessary component of reality that we will observe on our first day of The Bengali New year. The reality is that for all our adherence to and upholding of heritage,There remains a consciousness of what we yet need to do in order for the country to measure up to expectations of it .More precosely, it is a matter of what we as Bengalis need to do to redeem the pledge we have made to ourselves over time. Our political struggles and triumphs,ranging from a movement for autonomy to a spirited war of liberation, will remain an inconclusive tale unless we are able to create for ourselves a socity thats respects citizens, upholds their rights and sustains the old values passed on to them by those who came before them Pahela Baishakh is a dawning, it is a time for old aspirations to be refurbished, for new dreams to be forged. In Baishakh 1414, it is these thoughts that we are drawn to. edit by , Wasim Khan Polash.