With poetry, music, dance and colors, people in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka and elsewhere on Tuesday celebrated a grand festival that waves goodbye to the shivery chill of winter in the country.
Capital Dhaka dwellers thronged parks and green spaces to celebrate Pohela Falgun, the first day of spring and of the Bengali month Falgun, along with Valentine’s Day.
Amid vibrant bursts of color, a troupe of artists danced and splashed each other with powder-colored red and yellow at one of the major celebration venues, the University of Dhaka campus on Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile,capital residents also flocked to the other venue for celebrations in the city.
Young couples were seen celebrating their relationship and marking their togetherness with the blazing red and yellow colors the representative colors of the festivals.
They gave their beloved ones candy, flowers and chocolates, among others, as gifts.
Elsewhere in Bangladesh, people also performed chorus, folk dance and music and recited poems in the open air to celebrate the festivals.
As always, women and girls in Dhaka were seen in “bashonti’’ (yellow or orange) colored sarees and wearing floral ornaments, while boys wore colorful Panjabis to welcome the arrival of spring coinciding with Valentine’s Day.
The celebrations made business brisk for florists, and hawkers set up their mobile stalls in many places in the national capital to sell flowers at skyrocketing prices.
Florists say they were busy with the trade of the most sought-after flowers like tuberose, various types of roses, gladiolus, marigold, gerbera and daisy.(Xinhua/NAN)