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DU Fine Arts takes preparation for Pohela Falgun


Published : 13 Feb 2020 09:38 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 09:45 AM

Dhaka University Fine Arts faculty has taken all out preparations to celebrate Pahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of spring. Festival loving people were seen roaming across the area wearing colorful panjabees and sharees and other traditional dresses ahead of the festival.

Pahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of spring, also Valentine’s Day will be celebrated across the country especially in the capital tomorrow with 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.

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 center point of the festival to celebrate spring, singing songs, reciting poems and dancing. Ramna Park draws a huge crowd on that day.

The entire DU campus, including Teacher-Student 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.

Visiting DU fine arts faculty’ premises on Thursday, workers were found working hard to prepare the arena to celebrate the day in a befitting manner. 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, and other amusement places and recreation centers will see a rush of festival loving people.

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.

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.