SHUVO NOBO BORSHO!
It is the 1st day of the first month Baishak year 1416 as per the Bengali calendar.
A Happy New Year!
Spent the early part of the morning with a group of local photographers hanging-out at Dhaka University and the Institute of Fine Arts [Charukala]. Great festivities and literally millions of people all dressed in their new clothes – crisp starched red orange pink and magenta sarees for the women and crisp cotton kurtas for the men. Got a few nice images, and got separated from the group…. spent a while trying to locate them and the called it a [hot!] day and went home.
Am sure there will be 100′s of great photos from the group posted at the Flickr TTL Bangladesh group page. Looking forward to seeing those!
Here are a few from me
Pohela Boishakh 2009 [1416], Dhaka University Bangladesh.
Enjoyed the color, vigor and energy – a feast for the eyes ! How can I get the elephant mask??
…such a stunning set of photos!! awesome!
[...] to all! To make this page “complete” I am adding a photo from the celebrations from last year’s. A drummer who really got a rhythm going and had everyone dancing to his [...]