{"id":4652,"date":"2020-06-18T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/?page_id=4652"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T05:33:00","slug":"late-autumn-season-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/late-autumn-season-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Autumn Season (Hemanta) in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bangladesh is called the land of six seasons (Sadartu). It has a temperate climate because of its physical location. Though the climate of Bangladesh is mainly sub-tropical monsoon, ie warm and humid; Bangla calendar year is traditionally divided into six seasons: Grisma (summer), Barsa (rainy), Sarat (autumn), Hemanta (late autumn), Shhit (winter) and Basanta (spring). Each season comprises two months, but some seasons flow into other seasons, while others are short. Actually, Bangladesh has three distinct seasons: the pre-monsoon hot season from March through May, the rainy monsoon season, which lasts from June through October, and a cool dry winter season from November through February. However, March may also be considered as the spring season, and the period from mid-October through mid-November may be called autumn.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Late autumn<\/b><\/i>\u00a0(hemanta) The fourth season, covers Kartik and Agrahayan (mid-October to mid-December). Actually it is a transitional phase between autumn and winter. By mid-November the evenings grow cool. The contrast between the daytime and nighttime temperatures results in heavy dew. This is also the time for colds, cough and fever. In this season farmers are very busy with harvesting paddy and celebrate\u00a0<a title=\"Navanna\" href=\"https:\/\/en.banglapedia.org\/index.php\/Navanna\">navanna<\/a>\u00a0with the new rice crop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-drawn-watercolor-person-field-illustration_332290-80.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6800\" src=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-drawn-watercolor-person-field-illustration_332290-80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-drawn-watercolor-person-field-illustration_332290-80.jpg 996w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-drawn-watercolor-person-field-illustration_332290-80-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-drawn-watercolor-person-field-illustration_332290-80-768x531.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\u201cVoice of spring in autumn<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The full moon does carry<br \/>\n<\/i><i>As if it paints the floral dreams<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Of moonlight on Bakul stems\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013<\/i><b><i>Rabindranath Tagore<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh is called the land of six seasons (Sadartu). It has a temperate climate because of its physical location. Though the climate of Bangladesh is mainly sub-tropical monsoon, ie warm and humid; Bangla calendar year is traditionally divided into six seasons: Grisma (summer), Barsa (rainy), Sarat (autumn), Hemanta (late autumn), Shhit (winter) and Basanta (spring). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6801,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4652","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4652\/revisions\/6802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esdo.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}