AGARTALA, April 12 (TIWN): With just counting hours left for the welcome of the Bengali New Year people all across the state are busy in decorating their houses and shops.

Aiming to celebrate the Bengali New Year with great enthusiasm, people throngs in to the market to buy new cloths and commodities.

Businessmen and traders purchase new accounting books and start new account known as Haalkhata. People also worship Lord Ganesha by chanting mantras.

The celebration of the Bengali New Year marked with joy, enthusiasm and hope. People celebrate the eve of Naba Barsha with enthusiasm and bid farewell to the past year.

The Bengali calendar is tied to the Indian solar calendar, based on the Surya Siddhanta. As with many other variants of the Indian solar calendar, the Bengali calendar commences in mid-April of the Gregorian year.

It is to be mentioned here that Bengalis of all religious persuasions celebrate this secular holiday with music, song and, of course, plenty of good food. It's only appropriate to go all out, food-wise, on naba barsha, as Bengalis call the holiday.

Food in Bengali is synonymous with all events and happenings. But for festivals like the one for the New Year, Bengalis go the whole nine yards on the dinner table.

People also buy new clothes and other new items with the belief that something done at the beginning of the year repeats itself year-round. Bengali traders crack open fresh new account books called the haal khata on this day.

he first day of the Bengali year therefore coincides with the mid-April New Year in Mithila, Assam, Burma, Cambodia, Kerala, Manipur, Nepal, Odisha, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu and Thailand.

However, people also exchange gifts with families and friends and with their close one. People prepare sweets visits the houses of the relatives and greet them. Children take blessings from the elder’s in their houses.