Every year, the James P Grant School of Public Health organises a festive programme to mark the occasion of Boishakh (the Bengali New Year). This year, the event was celebrated on 16 April and staff from the School as well as the Master of Public Health students participated in the programme. The School organised a festive event featuring poetry recitation, traditional dance and song, and a dramatic representation capturing the spirit of Pohela Boishakh.
There were five performances by the MPH students which included music, dance and poetry recitation. The international students also took part in the festivities. Students from Nepal Bandana Bhandari, Sadichhya Shrestha and Elawati KC made a dance performance on a Nepali song about rivers and took to the stage fully dressed in their cultural attires. Other students Abhiyan Gautam, Raja Ram Bista, Sandesh Pantha and Saugat Pratap Kc (all from Nepal), sang a popular Nepali song. Saugat also performed a rendition of a Bengali song which he had learned only a month ago during his field trip to Rangpur. Apart from the performances, the students also contributed their own write-up for the wall magazine, including poems and songs.