Mangal Shobhajatra, the new year procession of Dhaka

The procession of giant masks and figures of birds, fish, animals and folk-tale beings that the students and teachers of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University lead through the city on the morning of Pohela Boishakh, open to everyone of every faith. Begun in Dhaka in 1989 as the Ananda Shobhajatra under military rule (after a Jessore procession of 1985/86), named Mangal Shobhajatra in the 1990s, and inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on 30 November 2016. Its name has been argued over and changed since 2023.