If you want to experience the pomp and splendour of colours and festivity blending together, you should visit the Dhaka University Fine Arts Faculty premises around this time every year. Young artists and their teachers work tirelessly, for hours every day, to prepare and raise money for the traditional parade, Mangal Sovajatra. It takes place on 14 April, the first day of Bangali New Year at the Fine Arts Faculty, popularly known as Charukola. Masks, clay pots, clay oil lamps, origami pieces, hand fans; an abundance of art pieces are on sale. Students from Dhaka University Fine Arts Faculty are busy making traditional masks at the faculty premises in Charukola |Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneThe students collect funds for the parade by selling their artwork.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 03, 2019 05:22 UTC