Pahela Falgun, the first day of spring of Bengali month Falgun, was celebrated with flowers, poems, songs and dances on Tuesday. It brings joys and colours both in nature and life, reports BSS.
The spring has been depicted as the king of all seasons in poetry as it is featured by extra-ordinary beauty of nature.
After the dryness of winter, new leaves start to come out again and the nature adorns the branches with new colorful flowers like Shimul, Polash and Marigold bringing the news of spring.
Everything in nature gives an impression of youthfulness or freshness as if the nature takes a new birth. Colorful flowers, melody of birds or mild touch of the sunshine - everything will make you feel that springtime is the nature's festival.
The festival-loving Bangladeshi people welcome and celebrate this day with great joys and love and in a colourful manner. The blazing red and yellow are the representative colours of Pohela Falgun.
Bangalees embellish themselves with these two primary colors. Girls are dressed in "bashonti" (yellow or orange colored) sarees and wearing floral ornaments while boys wear colorful panjabis to welcome the arrival of spring.
Bakultola of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University (DU) is the centre point of the festival.
Thousands of young men and women gather in the morning and celebrate the day singing songs, reciting poems and dancing.
The entire DU campus and the Amar Ekushey Book Fair premises become the best place to hang out with friends, family members and beloved ones.
Jatiya Basanta Utsab Udjapan Parishad is arranging the main programmes of the day for over two decades.
The parishad will arrange different programmes including songs and recitation of poems.