Dhaka: The two-day long ‘Jatiya Nabanna Utsab’ kicked off on Thursday at Bakultala of the Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University (DU) as part of the countrywide celebrations with this year's theme ‘Esho Mili Shobe Nabanyer Utshobe’.

Jatiya Nabanna Utsab Udjapan Parishad, the celebration committee of the festival, chalked out different day-long cultural activities including Folk songs, Lalon giti, Tagore song and dance to welcome the first day of Bengali month Agrahayan, reports the UNB. 

Eminent Cultural personality Ramendra Majumder officially inaugurated the cultural programme around 7:00 am.

Poets, painters, musicians, bauls and people from all walks of life joined together at the DU campus to celebrate the festival. 

First part of the celebration was ended following a ‘Nabanya Shobhajatra' that started from Charukala around 9:30 am and paraded the entire campus.

President of Sommilito Sangskritik Jote, Golam Kuddus, organiser Laila Hasan and convener of the organising body Shahriar Salam, among others, attended the inauguration session. 

A total of 1200 artistes of 68 cultural organisations are participating in the two-day long celebration.