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DHAKA, June 14, 2025 (BSS) – The Bengali calendar today announced the advent of the rainy season in tropical Bangladesh from tomorrow with the start of the month of Ashar supposedly ending the spell of hot weather of summer.

Despite erratic weather behavior thanks to global climate change phenomenon, the rainy season and particularly the month of Ashar carry a significant weight in typical Bengali culture and lifestyle which is 
reflected in literature and the arena of performing arts.

The blossoming Kadam with its cloying fragrance generally marks the advent of the month with newspapers featuring their front page with a picture of the flower.

Different cultural groups’ stage functions to mark the arrival of the month in the country for decades together under a detailed schedule and one such leading group the Udichi Shilpigosthi today said they would 
organise “Borsha Utshob (Rainy Season Festival” at Nazrul Mancha at 
the Bangla Academy tomorrow. 

The festival will begin at 7am tomorrow with a salutation of nature through music, said an Udichi press release.

The Monsoon has been an integral part of the Bengali life and literature since its earliest days, with a treasure trove of poetry, songs, hymns, novels and short stories glorifying the season and the beauty it infuses in nature.

The author of Bangladesh’s national anthem Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote a number of poems on Ashar manifesting its influence on Bengali mind and lifestyle.