Baishakh has nothing to do with Panta-Hilsa. Bangladeshi writers and thinkers said that they did not find any link to this meal with the celebration of Baishakh in terms of cultural heritage. According to them, traders are trying to show Pantha-Hilsa as part of Bengali culture to urban citizens.
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.
Fisheries experts say that the period of July, August, September or the Bengali Ashar-Sraban-Bhadra is the real time of eating Hilsa fish. This time the Hilsha is delicious. As well as hilsa egg release in March. That is why the Jatka Conservation Week is being observed from the Department of Fisheries on March 2-8. Bengali festival is considered as a festival of festivals. Besides Ramna Batamul, the traditional music scene of Chayant, apartments of the arts and crafts, from the time of the festival, the first Baishakh is being celebrated in Bangladesh from time to time. After the liberation of these events, 'Panta-Hilsa' came into existence after independence. Panta-Hilsa was organized in different parts of the capital including Ramna Batamul. It is sold at a high price. If Boishakh is increased motively, the price of Hilsa is increased.Professor Jatin Sarkar believes that Pantha-Hilsa is part of the fabrication and hypocrisy of Baishakh. The people who have taken these initiatives are the cultural thieves. After independence, thieves started this culture.
thinker professor Sirajul Islam Chowdhury said in one of his writings that the poor people's food pentaments There was no way to keep the rice in the night after eating; So it was kept with water and in the morning it was eaten with potato, burnt chili, etc. I also had a childhood. But now Pantha-Hilsa has become a luxury for the rich and it is also expensive that is beyond the scarcity of ordinary people. This is ridiculing our culture rather than respecting it.
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
Fate of the famous eminent journalist, literary and poet Fayez Ahmad, mentioned in several articles, articles and interviews about the festival of Pahela Baishakh, has no relation to Panta-Hilsa with Pahela Boishakh. This is not a poor man's food. The people of the village buy hilsa fish and eat pontoons, I have never seen it in the village, I have not heard.
