'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.
But cuckoos have not yet heralded the arrival of spring as the lingering cool of winter with a late rally by a mild coldwave, preceded by some rains, kept birds away so far.
Met Office Sources said it may remain cool today as the mild coldwave sweeping Rajshahi Division would spread to the regions of Jessore, Kushtia, Tangail and Mymensingh.
Under its effect, the capital would also wake up with a cool morning, the sun shrouded by a veil of mists, the Met sources said. But the weather will remain dry.
Otherwise the cuckoos would have been in their mood a little early in parks and on branches of thin lines of trees in the city.
As usual young people on Dhaka University campus would celebrate the first day of spring, greeting it with songs and flowers.
The Jatiya Basanta Utsab Udjapan Parishad has arranged its traditional ceremonies to greet the spring with Basanta Utsab 1414.
The celebrations would begin with a day-long spring festival at 7 AM today under 'Bakul Tala' at the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University.
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