On this occasion, the Faculty of Fine Arts has already made masks, sarees and various festoons of different colors. COURTESY
The Bengali New Year celebrations have lost their color again in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. Just as the message of the arrival of the new year will not be announced on Wednesday in Bhairabi Ragini at the beginning of the day from the base of Ramna in the capital, the colorful Mangal Shovajatra will not come out from the Charukola, nor will the country on festivals.
There will be no people walking in colorful clothes on the streets of the city around these events. The fair will not sit here and there. Adults will not be entertained by having fun with children in Nagardola. With all these 'no's', 1428 BS will start as soon as the sun rises. The new year will be celebrated by organizing house arrests with various government restrictions Bengali New Year.
Due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the festival of the life of Bengalis 'Pahela Boishakh' was cut off last year. In the war against the new virus, Bengalis are under house arrest at home and abroad. This time there was hope for a new dawn free of coronavirus. That is not to say that the second wave of the epidemic brought a more terrible form.
A week of 'strict' lockdown is starting in the country from the first day of Boishakh, April 14 to prevent the spread of the virus. At this time, the government has issued a circular with restrictions on all offices, public transport as well as markets, hotels and restaurants. It is forbidden to go out of the house without urgent need at this time.
Before all these restrictions, it was hoped that the fair would be held again in Boishakh. It is no longer happening due to the spread of the epidemic. Earlier, Alpana was painted on the wall of the Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, as usual, with the Bengali New Year in mind. However, due to the epidemic, the Mars procession is not happening again.
However, considering the Mujib Borsho, the Golden Jubilee of Independence and the centenary of Dhaka University, the university authorities had decided to hold a 'symbolic' Mangal Shovajatra of 100 people in a limited range considering the epidemic situation.
On this occasion, the Faculty of Fine Arts has already made masks, sarees and various festoons of different colors. The walls of fine art have been painted in Alpana. The announcement of the government's lockdown was actually canceled by the Dhaka University authorities.
Coronavirus, the second wave of this deadly infectious disease in the form of an epidemic, is going on in Bangladesh. Due to the epidemic, there is no celebration of Bengali New Year again.
On March 6 last year, the first Kovid-19 patient was identified in the country. The government then tried to stem the tide by imposing "general holidays" and imposing restrictions. Boishakh was not organized last year even after 60 consecutive days of holidays.
Infections began to increase again in mid-March this year. Almost every day there is news of new records in the number of victims and deaths.
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