Missing those hand-fans!

Can you remember your embroidered hand-fans you used mostly at the village home? Yes, I think everyone can. Whether the electricity is on or out, we plan to stay cool always and the hand-fans have been in used. Isn’t it? But those of the lovely hand-fans are hardly found to use today!

Yes! It’s now on the way to extinction. We are now using ceiling fans, window fans, rotating floor fans. We’re not pulling out our hand-fans today. It’s the modern era!

Once the hand-fans were used as a bridge of peace and love! Now this hand fans are going to be vanished by time. These traditional hand-fans were important aspects of Bengali culture.

It’s needless to say that the electric fan and other technology-run tools reduce our time in a great manner. It’s more and more effective than we use hand-fans. Of course, it makes our life easier, more beautiful and more comfortable!

But we should not forget the hand-fans we once used. It’s our part of the culture. We should introduce this culture to the future generation. It is our responsibility to keep this art alive. Different showrooms in cities, however, are seen trading with hand-fans. It’s a light of hope to keep our old culture thriving.

Will you spin your hand-fans anymore?

(Khadija Islam is currently studying at the Govt Titumir College)