Staff Reporter :
People, especially young men and women, celebrated Valentine’s Day in the city and elsewhere in the country showing feelings of love and affection to each other on Tuesday.
The day was a festival of romantic love as many people exchanged cards, letters, flowers or presents with their spouses or partners. The common symbols of Valentine’s Day were hearts and red roses.
“Valentine’s Day, a way of showing just how much one love someone. Its a fondness that consumes me. I just want to show my profound tender, passionate affection for another person,” a youth, also a student of Dhaka University, said.
In capital Dhaka, with flowers especially red roses, thousands of young men and women mostly college and university students with their beloved one started thronging the Dhaka University campus and other recreation places since morning and passed busy times. Most women were found wearing sarees and flowers carefully, and quite attractively, tucked in their locks while their beloved young persons were found wearing traditional panjabis and some carrying bouquets and exchanged their love and affection.
Apart from the open spaces, they also arranged a romantic meal in different restaurant in the city.
Many young people celebrated their love for their partner by sending cards or letters, giving gifts or flowers and arranging meals in restaurants or romantic hour on the open spaces.
Besides, some people celebrated the occasion to present lavish gifts, such as jewelry. Many restaurants and hotels had special offers yesterday.
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an annual event celebrated on February 14.
It originated as a Western Christian liturgical feast day honoring one or more early saints named Valentinus, and is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration in many regions around the world, although it is not a public holiday in any country.
