Paana Baishakh

After the liberation, writer-thinker Jatin Sarkar said that Pantha-Hilsa was favored by Pahela Baishakh since independence. In real sense, it is a fabricated culture. There is no relation with the Bengalis. Panta is a poor food and festivities, while people eat good food, feeding panda is there for business purposes.

Bangla Academy Director General Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan blamed 'Some educated citizens of the city' for the Baisakha Panta-Hilsa. He said that although the occasion of the festival of Hilsa in the first Baishakh is celebrated, the hilsa season is more and more later. Jatka is being caught due to the danger. The tremendous increase in the time of the first Baishakh is increasing the tendency to catch jatka.

Speaking on the occasion, Director General of Bangla Academy Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan said, "The season of hilsha eating is ahshra-sravan month. Boishakh does not have time to eat hilsa. It started at 90 When the first Boishak was celebrated earlier, there were chirads, twigs, common khich, various rice fields, curd, luchi, date molasses, khichuri, big fish, big rui fish etc, which were arranged in the village's affluent and rich family. But there was no issue of Hilsa and Panta.

Shamsuzzaman Khan said that now the money is received by the citizens of the city, so the hilsa used to spend Tk 100 lakhs.

Several authors have also raised questions about the involvement of Panta Hilsa in Pahela Boishak. It has been hostile to this fabrication. According to a writ of the historian Asiatic Society, Professor Sirajul Islam, the practice of eating pita-hilsa has recently been associated with the festival of Pahela Baishakh. This panta-hilha meal was not prevalent earlier.

Eminent filmmaker and writer Amjad Hossain writes that the new generation of the Hilsa-Panta culture in the first Baishakha