Motorists travel on the largest ‘alpana’ (motif) in the world, painted on either side of the Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka yesterday. The 350,000sq ft motif was painted to mark the Bengali New Year which represents the folk culture of Bangladesh. The Bengali calendar or Bangla calendar is a traditional solar calendar and the year begins on ‘Pohela Boishakh’ which falls on April 14 in Bangladesh