Bengali New Year 2019 Wishes: Pics, Quotes & SMS For Loved Ones

India is celebrating the Bengali New Year - ‘Pahela Baishakh’ 2019 on Monday, 15 April, this year.

(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/KanchanGupta)

India is celebrating the Bengali New Year – ‘Pahela Baishakh’ 2019 – on Monday, 15 April, this year.

The festival of ‘Pohela Boishakh’ (which literally translates to the first day of Boishakh month) marks the first day of Bengali calendar, and is celebrated with great zeal and fervour in the Indian states of West Bengal, Odisha, Tripura and parts of Assam.

Hindus and Sikhs in different parts of the country observe this day as the harvest festival. The day is celebrated as Vaisakhi in north and central India, while it is celebrated as Vishu in Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu.

‘Bangla Noboborsho’ Wishes Flood Social Media

“Wishing all a very Happy and Auspicious Bengali New Year! Shubho Noboborsho to all my friends... May love, light, health, wealth, success and happiness fill every moment of our lives!”(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/SomaMukherjii)

“Shubho Nobo Borsho, which marks the beginning of the Bengali New Year, will be celebrated with fervour today! May this new year fill your life with an abundance of hope, wealth and happiness. Shubho Nobo Borsho!”(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/talebus)

“I am proud to be a Bengali and it is our eve, it is our Bengali New Year. May this year brings peace...”(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/nahian_ab)