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{{Bengalis}}
{{Bengalis}}
[[File:New crop.jpg|thumbnail|right|Harvesting preparation]]
[[File:New crop.jpg|thumbnail|right|Harvesting preparation]]
'''''Nobanno''''' ({{lang-bn|নবান্ন}}, Nobānno; lit: ''' New Feast''') is a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in [[Bangladesh]] and in the [[Indian states]] of [[West Bengal]], [[Tripura]] and [[Assam]]'s [[Barak Valley]]. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of [[Bengali cuisine]] like [[pithe]] are cooked.
'''''Nobanno''''' ({{lang-bn|নবান্ন}}, Nobānno; lit: ''' New Feast''') is a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in [[Bangladesh]] and in the [[Indian states]] of [[West Bengal]], [[Tripura]] and [[Assam]]'s [[Barak Valley]]. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of [[Bengali cuisine]] like [[pitha]] are cooked.


==Celebration==
==Celebration==
The festival is celebrated with [[mela]] which are called Nabanna Mela. The villagers and locals from both the major religious groups join the festival with equal participation. The festival gets a lot of support from the [[Creativity|creative]] army of [[Culture of Bengal|Bengali culture]]. Several poets, musicians, [[baul]] and painters flock to such mass gatherings. There is a famous play written on nabanna by [[Bijon Bhattacharya]] which depicts the sad incident of the great [[Bengal famine of 1943|Bengal Famine]] of 1943.<ref>{{cite journal |last=O'Donnell |first=Erin |date=2004 |title='Woman' and 'homeland' in Ritwik Ghatak’s films: Constructing post-Independence Bengali cultural identity |url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc47.2005/ghatak/text.html |journal=Jump Cut |volume=47}}</ref>
The festival is celebrated with [[mela]] which are called Nabanna Mela. The villagers and locals from both the major religious groups join the festival with equal participation. The festival gets a lot of support from the [[Creativity|creative]] army of [[Culture of Bengal|Bengali culture]]. Several poets, musicians, [[baul]] and painters flock to such mass gatherings. There is a famous play written on nabanna by [[Bijon Bhattacharya]] which depicts the sad incident of the great [[Bengal famine of 1943|Bengal Famine]] of 1943.<ref>{{cite journal |last=O'Donnell |first=Erin |date=2004 |title='Woman' and 'homeland' in Ritwik Ghatak's films: Constructing post-Independence Bengali cultural identity |url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc47.2005/ghatak/text.html |journal=Jump Cut |volume=47}}</ref>
Nowadays the Festival "Nabanna" is celebrating every Bengali year (1st day of Agrahayan)(16 June in 2020) in [[Dhaka]], organised by Jatiya Nabanna Utshab Udjapan Parshad (National Harvest Festival committee) since 1998. Mr. Shahriar Salam is the Founder and main planner of the organisation. There are huge number of cultural activists, organisations & performing in a day long festival....
Nowadays the Festival "Nabanna" is celebrating every Bengali year (1st day of Agrahayan)(16 June in 2020) in [[Dhaka]], organised by Jatiya Nabanna Utshab Udjapan Parshad (National Harvest Festival committee) since 1998. Mr. Shahriar Salam is the Founder and main planner of the organisation. There are huge number of cultural activists, organisations & performing in a day long festival....


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Several dance and music forms have grown out of the ritual accompanied with the festival. Examples are [[Chhau dance|Chhau]], [[Bihu]] etc. Also the name nabanna is associated to several rural welfare projects and banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apit.gov.in/DOST/egovernance/ictpr/ictpr.nic.in/baduria/partners.html |title=Home – Information Technology & Communications Department – Government of AP |publisher=Apit.gov.in |access-date=22 August 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2004/S04-in/proposal ICT R&D Grants Programme for Asia Pacific — Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It has also been associated with the [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA) movement of [[Bengali theatre]].
Several dance and music forms have grown out of the ritual accompanied with the festival. Examples are [[Chhau dance|Chhau]], [[Bihu]] etc. Also the name nabanna is associated to several rural welfare projects and banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apit.gov.in/DOST/egovernance/ictpr/ictpr.nic.in/baduria/partners.html |title=Home – Information Technology & Communications Department – Government of AP |publisher=Apit.gov.in |access-date=22 August 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.apdip.net/projects/ictrnd/2004/S04-in/proposal ICT R&D Grants Programme for Asia Pacific — Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It has also been associated with the [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA) movement of [[Bengali theatre]].


The path-breaking production ''[[Nabanna (play)|Nabanna]]'' of the IPTA in the 1940s, has been a motivating force in the left-tilted political approach of the next few decades on the stage<ref>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1812/18120800.htm The theatre and class contradictions<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021104436/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1812/18120800.htm |date=21 October 2007 }}</ref> where luminaries like [[Utpal Dutt]] will glow with brilliance...
The path-breaking production ''[[Nabanna (play)|Nabanna]]'' of the IPTA in the 1940s, has been a motivating force in the left-tilted political approach of the next few decades on the stage<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071021104436/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1812/18120800.htm The theatre and class contradictions<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref> where luminaries like [[Utpal Dutt]] will glow with brilliance...


==References==
==References==