What is "nabanna"

'Nabanna '(New Crop) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of Bengali cuisine like pithe are cooked and offered.

Nabanna is a Bengali language drama written by Bijon Bhattacharya and staged by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in 1944 under the direction of Sombhu Mitra and later, in 1948, by Bohurupee under the direction of Kumar Roy. The play is about the Bengal famine of 1943. The Bengal IPTA took the play to many parts of India as a part of its festival, Voice of Bengal, and it became a major success and collected lakhs of rupees for famine relief in rural Bengal.

Nabanna may refer to–

• Nabanna, a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music
• Nabanna (play), a Bengali language play written by Bijon Bhattacharya and staged by Indian People's Theatre Association (1944) under the direction of Sombhu Mitra and Bohurupee (1948) under the direction of Kumar Roy
• Nabanna (building), a building in Howrah which houses the temporary State Secretariat of West Bengal.

Nabanna is a building in industrial township of Howrah which houses the temporary State Secretariat of West Bengal. It was inaugurated on 5 October 2013 by Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee.