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Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla year is celebrated in a festive manner in Bangladesh, the day is a national holiday falls on 14th April.

The main event of the day is to open a "Halkhata" or new book of accounts. In villages, towns and cities, traders and businessmen closed their old account books and opened new ones. They used to invite their customers to share sweets and renew their business relationship with them. This tradition is still practiced, especially by jewelers.

New year's festivities are closely linked with rural life in Bengal. Usually on the day everything is scrubbed and cleaned. People bathe early in the morning and dress in fine clothes and then go to visit relatives, friends and neighbors.

Special foods are prepared to entertain guests. Baishakhi fairs are arranged in many parts of the country. Various agricultural products, traditional handicrafts, toys, cosmetics as well as various kinds of food and sweets. are sold at these fairs. The fairs also provide entertainment, with singers and dancers staging jatra, pala gan, kavigan, jarigan, gambhira gan, gazir gan and alkap gan. They present folk songs as well as baul, marfati, murshidi and bhatiali songs. Narrative plays like laily-majnu, yusuf-zulekha and Radha-Krishna are staged. Among other attractions of these fairs are puppet shows and merry-go-rounds.

Observance of Pahela Baishakh has become popular in the cities. Early in the morning people gather under a big tree or on the bank of a lake to witness the sunrise. Artistes present songs to welcome the new year. People from all walks of life wear traditional Bengali dresses:

young women wear white sarees with red borders and adorn themselves with bangles, flowers, and tips. Men wear white pyjamas or dhoti and kurta. Many townspeople, start the day with the traditional breakfast of panta bhat (cooked rice soaked with water), green chillies, onion, and fried hilsa fish.

The most colourful new year's day festival takes place in Dhaka. Large numbers of people gather early in the morning under the banyan tree at Ramna Park where chhayanat artistes open the day with Tagore's famous song, Eso he Baishakh eso eso (Come O Baishakh, come), welcoming Baishakh. A similar ceremony welcoming the new year is also held at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka.

Students and teachers of the institute take out a colourful procession and parade round the campus. Social and cultural organisations celebrate the day with cultural programmes. Newspapers bring out special supplements. There are also special programmes on radio and television.

The historical importance of Pahela Baishakh in the Bangladesh context may be dated from the observance of the day by Chhayanat in 1965. In an attempt to suppress Bengali culture, the Pakistan Government had banned tagore songs. Protesting this move, Chhayanat opened their Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Ramna Park with Tagore's song welcoming the month. The day continued to be celebrated in East Pakistan as a symbol of Bengali culture. After 1972 it became a national festival, a symbol of the Bangladesh nationalist movement and an integral part of the people's cultural heritage.

why do so many people think we are in the last days?

According to the Bible the last days are the days since Christ.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

But what you may be enquiring after is whether the end is coming soon.

In Luke Christ tells us, And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

That has occurred since 1967 and 1973. Then God is now turning to deal with the Jews according to His promises to the fathers and the yet unfulfilled prophecies.

Following that statement Christ speaks of the sun, moon and stars being darkened which is a general statement amplified in other places to tell us that the light of Christ, the testimony of the visible church and of His righteous ones whose light has brought others to Christ will be put out, silenced and overcome.

The witness of His people strong during the times of the Gentiles, will be overcome and their testimony slain.

...And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

...And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

The world rejoices over the death of their testimony even to the point of allowing its remnants to remain as a mocking celebration over what it thinks is the denial of God and proof against God and His truth.

This is the time of the generation of sin, man given over to his sin, as described by the Apostle Paul.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

The time when man imagines that he is god and can do as he pleases.

But that time is short lived because,

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

This is the end of the world and the man of sin, the generation of man given over to his sin, is ended by Christ's coming to judge the world,

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

Before the end God will withdraw His restraints and allow man to be fully given over to his sin to prove what man so continually denies, his utter sinfulness. You will notice that it is because they they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, that God will give them up and give them over to a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.

Thus all will be be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

They are led away by all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. They substitute their own righteousness for God's.

Without God's restrain they are easily given over to the deceits of Satan. Man is so sinful in his heart, that is the very thing that is amazing - why man has not much earlier been given over to utter sinfulness.

This is in fact the mystery of iniquity, that it should have brought about this utterly sinful state much, much earlier, thousands of years ago. But God has been restraining it by His Spirit and not until He is taken out of the way can man fall to his true state.

Over the past 2,000 years God has preserved man through the preaching of the Gospel by the Spirit of God and by various means and this has led man to think he is not so bad as he really is. God has been more concerned to save out of this world a people for Himself and so has held man and his iniquity back - the mystery of iniquity.

When His purposes are finished then God will let man go to prove his state.

It would appear that we are in that time now but we do not know for how long it will be.

But to the children of light they will not be surprised or overtaken by that time, but they watch and pray and remain awake.

When is it socially acceptable to bring out the gimp?

Ms. Manners Nettiquette suggests that you can bring out the gimp only after midnight during a full moon in mixed company. However, you can bring out the gimp anytime you like, day or night, in the presense of an accepting audience. However, you should never bring out the Gimp on Sundays (not counting Sunday morning before sunrise if it is a late night party)... unless, of course, you allowed the Gimp a full day of rest on Saturday instead.

Of course, the above is merely an advisory opinion. The legislation is tied up in the rules committee as they are at loggerheads over whether the above should be indexed under BD or SM.