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Bashanta Utshab-Pohela Falgun-Valentine Day.

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Thousands of young people, both male and female, are taking part in the twin celebrations of Pahela Falgun[The first day of Spring according to Bangla calender] and Valentine’s Day today welcoming the advent of spring and sharing the great day of love.
The youngsters celebrate the occasions wearing colourful dresses, carrying flowers in their hands and singing love songs as well as spring songs.

People of the country wait eagerly all the year for spring festival with new hopes and aspirations. Spring is the most attractive season of the year and girls welcome the arrival of spring in Pahela Falgun( first day of spring according to the Bangla
calendar) wearing yellow saris. Incidentally Pahela Falgun and Valentine’s Day celebrations kick off on the two consecutive day starting from today.

The conservative elders and puritan senior citizens however do not welcome the spring festival and the changing faces of love as eagerly as the youngsters. But the change is omnipresent and it is engulfing the landscape and transforming the Bangladeshi society. Dhaka on February 13, 2010.

Celebrating the 1 st day of Spring (Falgun)’Bashanta Utshab’ was held on the campus of Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, and at Rabindra Sarobar in Dhanmondi .
The event was sponsored by Banglalink for the third consecutive year, said a press release.

Pahela Falgun, the first day of the Bangla month of Falgun, marks the beginning of ‘Bashanta’, the spring season in the country and it has special significance in the Bangladeshi culture.

The ‘Bashanta Utshab’ attracts a section of urban people, particularly university students with its vibrant colours.

Around 50,000 visitors come to enjoy this colourful event each year. Folk dances, folk music, recitations and rallies throughout the premises of the University of Dhaka were carried out as part of the Bashanta Utshab 1416. The surrounding area turned into Bashanti (yellow) colour with almost everyone turning up in yellow sarees, kameezes, or panjabees. Some of them even painted their faces to make the day yet more colourful.