Pahela Falgun, a festival welcoming the advent of spring, is being celebrated across the country by wearing yellow dresses, flower-made ornaments and holding traditional musical functions.
Pahela Falgun, also called Basanta Utsab, is the first day of Bengali month of Falgun.
The spring is portrayed as the king of all seasons in poetry for its extra-ordinary beauty of nature.
After the dryness of winter, new leaves start to sprout again and the nature adorns the branches with new colorful flowers like Shimul, Polash and Marigold.
Young women, who are clad in yellow attires with garlands of flowers in the hair bun and hands, come out with men to join festivals.
Famous places of Dhaka like Suhrawardy Udyan, Ramna Park, Dhanmondi Lake, Rabindra Sarabar and other amusement places and recreation centers are crowded with festival loving people.
Jatiya Boshonto Utshab Udjapan Parishad arranges the main programme of the day.
The parishad is arranges different programmes including rendering songs and recitation of poems.
