Novel idea of online programme for Bengali New Year

A New Town neighbourhood and a school in Ajoynagar are celebrating Poila Baisakh online.

Sudipta Guha, 55, who lives in New Town’s AB block will wear her favourite red ikkat sari and perform an audio play and recite Shankha Ghosh’s Jamunaboti before an audience of nearly 100.

Online rehearsals every evening for the past few days gave Guha and her neighbours something to look forward to during the lockdown.

“All of us have shifted here recently. We have been planning our first independent Bengali new year celebrations since January. So when the lockdown was announced, we were heartbroken,” said Anik Chowdhury, the secretary of the AB Block Owners’ Association.