India, April 15 -- Actor Sayani Gupta talks about her Poila Boishakh ( being celebrated today) rituals, rooted deeply in family traditions, despite now living in Mumbai. "It's about celebrating the season, the new beginnings, the spring, and food," she shares, adding that her mum still sends her new clothes every year to keep the tradition, that marks the Bengali New Year, alive. "I can be dressed with something as simple as a housecoat, but it should be new irrespective of wherever I am," she says. Looking back at her childhood in Kolkata, the 40-year-old recalls the warmth of community celebrations. "It was always about dressing up and savouring sweet delicacies, including payesh. everybody wanted to feed us, and that was their only agenda," she adds The actor also expresses concern about fading traditions: "There are multiple delicacies, traditions are getting lost. as a generation we lack that," she says, noting she learned dishes like pithe to preserve them. Still, she finds hope in friends celebrating festivals together. "That's something that makes me happy," she says. Even with a "working Poila Baishakh" this year, Gupta remembers once going all out: "I made a 12-course meal. it was an amazing feeling."...