Bangladesh The land of six seasons : Spring

Basanta, the king of nature, is widely celebrated throughout every nook and corner of the country with funfair and gaiety. Just a day after Valentines’ day, the festival of love revered across the world, Rituraj Basanta is celebrated in Bangladesh with riot of colors on all streets of capital and major cities and all university and college campuses.

In Basanta, flowers of different colours and fragrances bloom all around making people love-sick and looking for love. To celebrate the great season that brings new leaf to all the trees and blooming numerous flowers, Dhaka University’s faculty of fine arts celebrate Basanta Utsav at its Bakultal premises every year with presentation of songs and colourful dances, which is participated by tens of thousands of people. The programe is aired live from the spot by different TV channels.

Just by cashing in on the six distinctive seasons and global craze for eco-tourism, Bangladesh could bring in millions of eco-tourists highlighting its unique natural possessions in the age of information technology by positive branding of Bangladesh in the global village.

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Bangladesh The land of six seasons : Winter

The Himalayan cold breeze brings in winter in Bangladesh, though the winter here is not as chilly as that of the West. Still bone-chilling cold bring in many winter delights, specially many leafy vegetables and specially different forms of winter cakes that were made in rural villages just after settling down to rejoice the good harvest. Now the capital and other metropolitan cities during winter organize Pitha Utsab (cake festivals) along with rural villages going by the age-old traditions. Moreover, people enjoy Jatra both in rural villages and also in small towns. 

The guest birds flock to swamps, rivers and natural lakes (beels, haours like Chalan Beel, Tanguar Haor, Jahangirnagar University swamps) and big water bodies crossing thousands of miles from cold zones to relatively warm places in Bangladesh. Chirping of tens of thousands of guest birds makes those places heavenly with serene beauty of Bangladesh in winter days. Hundreds of species of winter birds from many continents visit Bangladesh for few months each year having congenial atmosphere and natural hospitality as well with adequate natural foods and fishes in those water bodies creating a rare scope to bird watchers to have glimpse of so many birds.

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Bangladesh The land of six seasons : Hemanto

In Hemanto, the gentle breeze start blowing and make people busy with harvesting their crops of hard labour and the whole rural Bangladesh bursts into harvest festivals with smiles all around heralding the start of celebrations and gaiety with good harvest. And the natural gentle breeze spreads the scent of new paddy all around driving away penury of even the hardcore poor people’s life, at least for a while. 

The rural Bangladesh then gets busy with processing paddy and store those for a better price, though most farmers are forced to sell their crops just after harvest and repay the loans they took for procuring farm outputs earlier. But after repaying the loans rural Bangladesh gets busy with celebrations of harvest feast and festivals all around organizing Pala Gaan, Kobial gaans, Putul Naach, Jatra and traditional dance fests (Folk song and dance festivals) making rural life real colorful and full of fun.

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Bangladesh The land of six seasons : Autumn

In Sharat (Autumn), astronomers and star-gazers can explore the beauty of limitless sky and the enormous space with even bare eyes as the sky remains all clear with bluish blush and white patch of serene clouds making fun all the timer hovering all around.

 And at night, thousands of stars and celestial beauties of the universe and milky ways could be enjoyed without any hindrance with bare eyes and all those would inspire anybody to explore the space with telescopes and space observatories. Kite festivals were also organized on the shoals of Padma and other places when kites of different colours and sizes make the sky full of fun spreading the message of peace and the urge of festivities.

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Bangladesh The land of six seasons : The Rainy Season

Then comes the rainy reason for refreshing the nature with its healing power of rain drops to make the trees leafy with fresh leaves. The rainy season is greeted by students of Fine Arts faculty of Dhaka University for many years with Borsha Boran festival with participation of innumerous people bored with dog-tiring mechanical life of the capital to refresh their lives with a dose of funfair. The gloomy season of nature sheds tears and makes people search for spirituality in the serene beauty of Bangladesh when nature sings its rainy songs ceaselessly washing away all the dirty things of life and livings.

Bangladesh is also a land of rivers criss-crossed by 56 trans-boundary rivers and their hundreds of tributaries. During rainy seasons people can enjoy the serenity of nature by going on boat trip on mighty rivers full of waters to their brims and enjoy fishing.

Responding to the urge of eco tourism, different private sectors of beaming Bangladesh in recent days have developed several eco-tourism spots and resorts in the country’s Sylhet tea garden areas, Sonargao – the ancient capital of Bengal, Jamuna resort on the bank of mighty Jamuna, Padma resorts and many more spots in the midst of natural beauties and surroundings. Spending just a few days in those resorts during the rainy season, one could really go spiritual and feel the essence of life and the beautiful creation of earth by the Almighty.

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Bangladesh The land of six seasons : Summer

Bangladesh is the lone country in the world which has quite distinctive six seasons – Summer, rainy season, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring- the king of all seasons (Grishma, Barsha, Sharat, Hemanta, Shit and Bashanta).  

All these six seasons could be quite distinctively felt and differentiated in Bangladesh which were celebrated by people of this South Asian country through various cultural, traditional and social programmes for ages to make life meaningful, enjoyable with this bounty of nature.

Summer is celebrated with ‘fruit festival’ by the people of this country as the seasons brings with it numerous summer delights – Jackfruits, watermelons, litchis, melons, pineapples, mangoes and many more mouthwatering fruits which are not just tasty and full of nutrients, but also rich in medicinal food values necessary for boosting human beings’ immune system.

Summer is also celebrated with traditional village fairs, picnics, Jatra, Palagaan, Kobigaan and many other festivities of folk art and culture of natural roots which are part of our rich heritage and tradition. 

  

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