City of eagle wears flowers jacket on spring onset

SARGODHA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Mar, 2026) With the onset of the spring season, the city of eagle Sargodhga has worn a flowery look to celebrate the joyous colorful season associated with the blooming flowers, pleasant breeze and reinvigoration.

Spring is the time of new beginnings, characterized by blooming flowers, the awakening of animals from hibernation to nest and reproduce, the migration of birds towards warmer climates, and is the planting season too. Like other parts of the country, a number of activities including Jashan-e-Baharan festivals, flower and birds show and family galas are arranged in the Sargodhga to welcome the onset of the spring season and for a long these festivals have become an important feature in the Calendar.

Different educational and cultural institutions, as well as the city administration of Sargodha, have started arranging different colourful activities to mark the beginning of the spring season after passing off the chilly winter season.

According to weather experts, the duration of the spring season has been reduced due to climatic changes affecting globally like in Pakistan.

Spring is a season which has an emotional value also due to which the literature of all languages especially urdu describes this season in unique and captivating ways.

Traditionally in literature spring is the symbol of love, joy, spirituality, melancholy and most importantly the beginning of a new life for a person after suffering at the hands of the 'cold world of autumn' while in contemporary Urdu poetry, spring also has elements of happiness, beauty, optimism and sorrow.

Talking to APP renowned poet and writer, Agha Mehmood Talip said spring symbolizes rebirth, hope and happiness but it also is a time of memories which takes us towards the nostalgia of old times.

He said the spring season enchanted the poets and literature lovers towards expressing their feelings as the blooming flowers buzz and the whistle of the birds encourage the creative sense of the individual.

He said the literature of the sub-continent depicts the spring season with so many variations and most of the prominent poets of Urdu and Persian have described the season in so many different ways which add colours to this season as well as the poetry.

Syed Peer Zawar Hussain Shah, a PhD scholar of Urdu literature said spring is the season of festive mood, rendering trilling birds, murmuring streams, and caressing breezes and it also brings out an inspiration and creative spirit for poets and sensitive people.

He said although the people of east are considered as more sensitive and have special association with nature but the literature of other languages also depicts the spring season in many different ways.