Konkani to English:
विलॅम वॅन शँडल आनी हँक शल्ती नॉर्डहोल्ट हांचे मतान, 1950 आनी 1060 च्या दसकांनी पाकिस्तानी सत्तेक विरोध करीत गेले तसो बांगला देशींमदीं हो उत्सव संस्कृती आनी दायजाचो स्वाभिमान उक्तावपाचें लोकप्रिय साधन जालें.
According to Willem van Schendel and Henk Schulte Nordholt, the festival became a popular means of expressing cultural pride and heritage among the Bangladeshi as they resisted Pakistani rule in the 1950s and 1960s.