After the dryness of winter, thousands of people welcomed Pahela Falgun, the first day of Spring, in the capital city on Tuesday with poetry, music, dance and colours.
Nature turns into fresh and colourful shape with blossom of flowers and new leaves in trees in the eleventh month in the Bengali calendar and the first month of the Spring season.
The Spring is the king of all six seasons that brings back warm sunshine, budding flowers and dancing birds, touching heart and minds of all ages of people.
The winter season has come to a close with rising of temperature as the people is set to welcome Pahela Falgun embracing fragrant of nature and exchanging love with their beloved ones.
The spring has been depicted as the king of all seasons in poetry for it is featured by extra-ordinary beauty of nature.
Thousands of people from all walks of life gathered at the premises of Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University to welcome the day.
The entire DU campus and the Ekushey Book Fair premises turned into a centre of celebrations with friends, family members and beloved ones.
Jatiya Basanta Utsab Udjapan Parishad organised a cultural programme at Bakultola, the hub of all festivals of the campus.
The programme began early in the morning followed by colourful procession, dances and songs which ended around 10am.
The Parishad has been organising the programme since 1401 to celebrate the seasonal festival, said Shafi Ahmed, one of the organisers of the event.
As nature is fading away from the urban life, we started this practice to welcome the first day of the Spring following the tradition of Shantiniketon, he said.
"Rabindranath Tagore introduced the tradition so that people can enjoy and celebrate the day every year and get bound in the bond of love and colours," he added.
"Spring is the season of love and colours. We sacrificed lives to protect our language in this month" said Freedom Fighter Krishna Rahman, another organiser of the programme.
All these things make this day closer to the people, she added.
According to the visitors, after the dullness of winter, spring brings new hope, new promise and new aspirations to the life, local agencies said.
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 Pahela Falgun.
