BSS, Dhaka
‘Let there be flowers or not, today is Basanta’, so wrote a Bengali poet on the first day of Falgun or Spring, signifying its traditional arrival in the minds and hearts of Bangladeshis.
Pahela Falgun begins today, bringing colour and festivities in the minds of people, lighting up the hearts of all, irrespective of age and life and living.
Young women, dressed in red-bordered yellow saris, flowers in hairs, welcoming the day signals the colour of spring with cuckoos singing songs of the season. It draws the picture of the colourful season’s transition from dry, dull and drab winter. [Read more]