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| Festival’s in India |
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The celebration of a festival in India follows a very different and unique look, considered to be another color from our diversified rainbow of cultural heritage. Every season has got a festival of its own that makes the whole year an year of merriment.
Onset of the New Year is done by the celebration of the festival of Lohri, in which people get-together along side the bonfire, sing songs and dance till midnight. This festival is basically celebrated in the northern part of India on the 13th January of every year
If Lohri is celebrated to mark the end of the cold weather, then Basant Panchami is a welcoming of the spring season. "Basant" means yellow and it's a symbol of natural splendor of flowers. Another lively aspect of spring is "the festival of colors" Holi, a time when rich or poor, young or old, everyone can be seen smearing the faces of each other with various colors.
In April, Baisakhi marks the day of the beginning of the Hindu Solar New Year and is also known as that time of the year when the harvest is ready to cut and stored or for sale.
The arrival of rainy season brings with it the festival of Teej recognized as a sacred festival for the ladies as they dress up in colorful sarees and ornate themselves with bangles. All the ladies in their multihued outfits have a gala time while swaying on the swings. Then comes the festival of bondage of affection between a brother and a sister through a string of thread, Rakhi.
Dussehra means the Tenth Day, being the 10th day of the bright half of Ashwin. Also known as Vijaydashmi or Victory Tenth, because of the Victory of Lord Rama over Ravana. In north India it is recognized as RamLila and consists of plays, recitations and music that recall the life of the legendary hero, Ram. On the tenth day, an elaborate procession leads to the Ram Lila grounds where huge cracker-stuffed effigies of the demon Ravana, his brother and son are exploded to cheer thousands of spectators.
Before the 10th day the other nine days are celebrated as Navaratri, when dolls and trinkets are artistically arranged in tiers by young girls and friends and relatives visit each other's homes to exchange greetings. In West Bengal and other parts of eastern India, Dussehra is celebrated as Durga Puja, in which people wear new clothes and entertain themselves with music dance and drama. On the last day, statues of the warrior goddess are taken out in procession and then immersed in a river or in the sea.
Diwali is known as "the festival of Lights" because in this festival people decorate their houses with lights, candles and Diya's and decorate their houses with various color powders making beautiful designs on the ground called "Rangoli". Light overcomes the dark night of "Amavasya" on this day and people enjoy the festivity by playing with firecrackers.
At the end of the year comes the time of Ramzan, which continues for over a month and ends with the biggest Islamic festival called Id. Just like the west, Christmas has got its own fervor in India too especially in Goa, where a Christmas Carnival is held on this occasion, which attracts lots people from all around India and the world to witness this magnificent extravaganza that only comes once every year.
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