Amtali Correspondent :
The bushes and shrubs of the countryside, the roads and the banks of the river, all around the kasbans are bursting with flowers.
Many times passers-by are also charmed by this flower and tear it in their hands and some people shake their hands. During the season of this flower fair, autumn reigns throughout Bhadra-Ashwin. When autumn comes, the flowers of the kasban can be seen swaying with each other. At this time, different kinds of happiness flowed unknowingly in people’s minds. The great poet Kalidasa said in Autumn Vandana, My dear, look there, Autumn is gathered like a bride.
He also wrote in the poem ‘Ritu Sanghar’, “Whose dress is like a flower, whose face is like a cheerful lotus, whose voice is beautiful like the call of a mad duck, whose voice is beautiful like ripe rice paddy, whose slender body is beautiful, whose form is like the bride who comes in autumn.” When autumn comes, we want to get lost in the forest.
In this country of six seasons, in the city-centered civilization, except for winter, summer and monsoon, when any season comes or goes, it has no shadow in our daily life. But when the tiny petals of kashful fly through the window during a busy time, then it is clear that autumn has arrived.
Poet Jibanand Das has seen autumn, I have seen the face of Bengal, so I don’t go looking for the shape of the world anymore. Fascinated by the beautiful appearance of autumn, the poet decided that he no longer needed to see the world.
Autumn is the season of whiteness. Autumn means the white smile of flowers on the banks of the river. When we say autumn, we mean Kashful. White clouds in the blue sky. Kashful’s waist swaying dance across the field. This is the characteristic of autumn. At present, on both sides of the river, in the fields of land, the familiar scene of autumn is no longer seen. Kashban is disappearing in the course of time.
Now some of the kashforests that are isolated in rural Bengal are partially blooming. Then, in sync with autumn, there are now fields of seasonal crops. Common people’s hobby of watching nature seems to be lost.
Visitor HM Sabina Sumon said, once this flower was valued, it is slowly disappearing and the only reason for this disappearance is carelessness, neglect, farmers reduce its importance and lose its value.
Amtali Upazila Agriculture Officer Md. Isha said that there is no need for additional care and fertilizer application in the cultivation of kasban. The uses of kashaban are manifold. When the saplings are a little big, some parts of them can be cut and used as cattle fodder, and sometimes the women of the village used to make jatha, dali, and baskets. People of rural Bengal also used it as a house canopy.
