It is zero hours on day zero and wherever you are. be it Dhaka. Delhi. London. New York or Moscow, you don’t miss to say "Happy New Year." -

Before the dawning of the new year, you must have had already received a greetings card prompting you to ask of yourself what indeed the new year will hold in store for you? Perhaps a golden treasure of Joys, that you have been hoping for. The card brings back memories of happy times you have passed and fills the day with new delights that are for you alone. Identifying you as a special person, someone writes to you: It’s time for you’ to celebrate another year, and so this special greeting ?ard is sent to make it clear. You’re wished a day that’s happy and a year perfect too. cause that’s exactly what should come to someone as nice as you."

New Year is not a festival of individuals, but of the whole family too. A family says to the -other, ’you’ve the kind of family that’s thought of all year through. People who are nice to know and very special too. bring Joy to everybody."

The New Year festival, which is among the oldest and most universally observed. Generally include very diverse rites and ceremonies.

Bangalees as a people did not particularly go for New Year funs and festivities. The Halkhata opening by shopkeepers was the only interesting function that involved but only the customers of the shops. British colonial rule introduced Bengalees to the festivities of January 1. This is

term, and in time, inspired the nationalists among them to go for celebrating the advent of the Bengali New Tear in an all-involving manner.

The earliest known record of a New Year’s festival dates from about 2000 B.C in Mesopotamia.

New Year is celebrated in vaiying degree and time in conformity with the calender and culture.

In early medieval times, most of Christian Europe regarded March 25 as the beginning of the year, through for Anglo-Saxon. >

England New Year’s Day was December 25. William the Conqueror decreed that the year start on January 1, but. later. England begun its year with the rest of Christendom on March 25. January 1 was revived with the adoption of it by Roman Catholic countries. Other countries slowly followed suit.

The celebration of the New Year on January 1 is the’most popular, as most of the world follow this calendar.

New Year's Day. whether local or universal, serves to meet specific social and psychological needs and provide cohesiveness to social institutions. Similarly, individuals gain a sense of psychological cohesiveness through participating in feasts and festivals.

The wildfire advance of the wasteful in lifestyle led by the affluent in the society is tarnishing the sense of sincere goodwill that permeates day with expensive society outings in hotels offering things not in conformity with this nation s culture.