Pohela Falgun Festival in Bangladesh

February 13, 2018: Bangladeshi women wear yellow saris and flowers to celebrate Pohela Falgun, the first day of Spring of Bengali month in Dhaka

Pohela Falgun is the first day of Spring of Bengali month “Falgun” of the Bengali calendar, celebrated in Bangladesh. It was started in 1991 tied a group of students from Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts forever, with affection and a memory that transformed into a bigger event.

This day is marked with colorful celebration and traditionally, women wear yellow saris to and flowers to celebrate the day. The celebration is also knows as Basanta Utsab. Years later when the day is celebrated far and wide across the country with much festivity, they meet and revisit the past to their pleasant surprise.

On the eve of Pahela Falgun, the first day of spring on the Bangla calendar that year. The Falgun celebration was one of the efforts by students of fine arts to keep rural traditions of Bangalees from being forgotten.

Now, Basantabaran Udjapan Committee organizes programs to celebrate the day, as nature takes off the blanket of fog and welcomes the sunlight to the earth.Though winter in Bangladesh is brief, people here bid a quick farewell to gloomy, melancholic shroud of dust and dried leafs, and embrace Falgun with all their hearts.