The first day of the late-autumn season, hemanta, shows in Prothom Alo's daily photo round, 'Ekjholok', for 1 November: mist settling on the fields, the paddy harvest under way, hilsa returning to the landing centres after a 22-day fishing ban, and the first chill of winter in the north. These are its pictures of farming, nature and daily life.
In Notunpara, Rangamati, kunjalata (cypress vine) flowers bloom on a misty morning. At Bilaichharipara in the same district a bee is busy gathering nectar from lemon blossom; both pictures are by Supriyo Chakma.
The 22-day ban on catching hilsa has ended. At the fish landing centre in Barishal, trawlers are bringing hilsa in again and workers at the wholesale sheds are sorting the fish by size (photo: Saiyan).
At Kundarhat in Nandigram, Bogura, last season's paddy has come to market, and workers are heaping up grain bought from farmers. At Dighi Dakkhinpara, Manikganj, a farmer cuts paddy on a misty hemanta morning. At Hamchiapur, Malanchi, in Pabna, a trader sells quilts and mattresses from a van, village to village, as the northern districts begin to feel the cold.
At Rajabari in Sreepur, Gazipur, a pair of lesser whistling ducks stands in the wetland beside a beel. In a garden at Chhotra, Cumilla, white mussaenda, also called patralekha, is in bloom; its white parts are not petals but enlarged sepals.
At Tepakhola, Faridpur, low-income people queue at an OMS dealer's shop for cheap rice and flour. At Goalchamat Lahiripara in the same district, a housewife dries paper bags, made for shops to pack goods in, in the sun beside her house. The round's other pictures (workers' protests, road blockades, exam results, the metro rail) are outside this site's subjects and are left out here.
The original pictures are by Prothom Alo's photographers; the cover here is an openly licensed photograph of a paddy harvest.
Photo: Balaram Mahalder / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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