thumbnail|right|Harvesting preparation Nobanno (, Nobānno; lit: New Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley and Eastern parts of Jharkhand. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of Bengali cuisine like pitha are cooked.
thumbnail|right|Harvesting preparation Nobanno (, Nobānno; lit: New Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley and Eastern parts of Jharkhand. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of Bengali cuisine like pitha are cooked.
==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 creative army of 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. In contemporary times, the Nabanna festival is celebrated annually on the first day of Agrahayan in Dhaka, organized by the Jatiya Nabanna Utshab Udjapan Parshad (National Harvest Festival Committee) since 1998. 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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