Pahela Falgun today Pahela Falgun today  News Report
Pahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of
spring, will be celebrated across the country,
specially in the capital, today (Wednesday) wearing
yellow dresses, flower-made ornaments and holding
traditional musical functions.
Bangalees mark the spring festival on the first day
of Bengali month of Falgun. It is also called Basanta
Utsab.
Festival loving people in Dhaka are now busy to take
preparations to welcome the advent of spring in a
befitting manner. City markets are seen overcrowded
with purchasers buying colorful panjabees and sharees
and other traditional dresses ahead of the festival.
Different brands of garment products, shoes and
ornaments are also giving special offer for customers
on the eve of the festival. Newspapers have been also
publishing special supplements for the last couple of
days carrying the message of the festival.
Thousands of people specially the youths across the
country will welcome the arrival of spring with
attiring colorful "bashonti" (yellow or orange
colored) dresses particularly yellow or red panjabees
and sharees and presenting flowers to their soul
mates as a token of their profound love bringing joys
in life.
Clad in yellow attires with brunches of flowers in
the hair bun and hands, hundreds of young girls and
boys will throng the Bakultala on the premises of
Fine Arts Faculty at Dhaka University (DU), the
centre point of the festival to celebrate spring,
singing songs, reciting poems and dancing. Ramna
Park, Rabindra Sarobar and Hatirjheel draws a huge
crowd on that day.
The entire DU campus including Teachers-Students
Centre (TSC), Arts Faculty, Curzon Hall, University
Mall (Mall Chattar) and the compound of Amar Ekeushy
Granthamela turns into the best place to hang out
with friends, family members and beloved ones on the
day.
Jatiya Boshonto Utshab Udjapan Parishad has been
arranging the main programme of the day for around
two decades. The parishad is arranging different
programmes including rendering songs and recitation
of poems except regular programmes.
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair is expected to
draw a huge crowd as the book-loving people will
throng the fair on the very special day with their
friends and family members.
Since morning, Suhrawardy Udyan, Ramna Park,
Dhanmondi Lake, Rabindra Sarabar and other amusement
places and recreation centers will see a rush of
festival loving people.
As spring has arrived with blossom of flowers and new
leaves in trees, nature is getting fresh and colorful
shape that touches heart and minds of all ages of
people.
The spring has been depicted as the king of all
seasons in poetry for its 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 denoting the message of arrival of spring.
In nature, it is considered that "Krishnachura"
flower brings the message of arrival of spring.
"O Wind, If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley described
the arrival of spring in his famous poem 'Ode to the
West Wind'.
In his another poem he wrote: "And the spring arose
on the garden fair/Like the Spirit of Love felt
everywhere, And each flower and herb on Earth's dark
breast/Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest".
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 people in the country welcome and
celebrate the day with great joys and love and in a
colourful manner. The blazing red and yellow are the
representative colours of Pohela Falgun as Bangalees
embellish themselves with these two (yellow or red)
primary colors to welcome the arrival of spring.
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