Mon Sep 19 2022 3:57 PM Last updated on: Tue Sep 20 2022 11:44 AM
Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
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Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
For as far as you can see, the horizon is a vast expanse of fluffy white clouds, floating quietly over azure skies and beneath a sea of feathery kashphul, swaying happily across the open fields.
It’s Sharat, the bangla season that sort of matches autumn elsewhere.
For all the latest news, follow the Daily Star’s Google News channel. The merry court of clouds and kashphul (or Kans grass as it is known in English) has many stories to tell, but on the one hand, their perfect match bears the goddess Durga. The Goddess has chosen this romantic season to descend to earth from her heavenly abode, filling our hearts with hope, romance and magic.
Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
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Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
Dhaka’s concrete jungle still has few open fields and areas and their arid soil allows kashful to grow in abundance, turning the place into a sea of foamy white or whitish waves of kashphul thickets.
Kash has many uses, but its main role is to soothe the arid days of late summer. Passing by a kashbon, you feel invigorated by its almost transcendent beauty.
The places where you can go and enjoy the kash flowers are definitely Uttara Third phase, after passing through the metro construction area, the vast open space is full of these perennial herbs, reaching up to three meters in height.
The open fields of Bashundhara and the road leading towards 100 feet is another place to visit to see the kashphul. If you’re heading to destinations on the outskirts of Dhaka Metro, you’re bound to see fields of Kans grass.
This weekend, imagine yourself in a car, your hair blowing in the wind, and the sky blurred with tangerine and dazzling white clouds, the horizon like a spreading marmalade; and you swaying through the white fields of kashphul. The dhak rhythms of Durga Puja and the beauty of Sharat give these moments an uplifting feel. Its kashphul season go out and enjoy the flowers.
Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
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Photo: Sazzad Ibn Sayed
