Category: Festivals

14 Jan 2023 13:35

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Happy Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Suggi Habba, Lohri, and Magh Bihu!

It's that time of the year when the end of multiple harvest festivals is celebrated at the same time. How lovely!

Greetings to everyone on this auspicious occasion. May it bring prosperity and joy to you, your families, and your friends. Hope you all enjoy the special food that is prepared on the occasion and all the accompanying festivities in your individual ways and join in the traditions of others, too.

#768736

14 Jan 2023 14:01

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This is a three-day festival and many people in this country will celebrate this festival in some way or other with different names. . It is the time we are entering Uttarayana Punyakalam from Dakshinayanam. I convey my best wishes to all the members of this site on this great occasion. Hope this festival will bring a lot of pleasure and joy to your lives.

drrao
always confident

#768746

14 Jan 2023 16:44

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This festival is being celebrated all over India as our India is an agricultural based country. Moreover it is a practice in our country that before start to eat we used to worship the food. Similarly we worship the Sun God as the protector of our agricultural lands for a better yield. Alternatively many says that an agriculturist get a good yield on this day before Makar Sankaranthi after selling his produce which he obtained as a result of hard work in the agricultural field. Normally the farmers and agricultural related persons celebrated this festival with their children, family and friends. On this occasion villages are found with grand festival mood. Many people those who settled in towns and cities from the villages also go there on that day to participate the joy of the farmers, their relatives/friends. This is celebrated in towns also in order to make the agriculturists feel happy. Though this is called in different names the purpose and way of celebrating are one and same.
Wishing all ISCns a Happy Makar Sankaranthi!

#768750

14 Jan 2023 17:42

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Happy Makar Sankranti to one and all and your families. Hope everything will be good and prosperous for each one of you in the coming days!

shampasaid

#768759

15 Jan 2023 00:17

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My best wishes to all in the ISC family on this auspicious moment. It is really amazing that the festive mood remains the same in various places throughout the country but with a different name in each place. May all of you prosper in every aspect of life and may all your wishes come true. Enjoy and keep smiling!

Sankalan

"Life is easier when you enjoy what you do"

#768761

15 Jan 2023 09:12

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As we celebrate the harvest festival with different names across many parts of the Country, I wish all the members lots of happiness and prosperity! Let us fill our granaries with good health, unity, peace and mutual love and respect.

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'.
-Aristotle

#768762

15 Jan 2023 09:56

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Festival greetings to all lovely members of ISC and their families. May this festival season bring happiness, prosperity and unity to all fellow people in our country.

regards,
Tony John
Webmaster - IndiaStudyChannel.com

#768766

15 Jan 2023 11:10

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Makara is the zodiac sign of Capricorn and Sankranti means transition. 'Makara Sankranti' marks the transition of the Sun from the zodiac of Sagittarius (Dhanu) to Capricorn (Makara).

There are twelve zodiac signs, and every month, the Sun transits from one zodiac sign to another. There are twelve Sankranti(s) in a year, and the foremost are the Mesha Sankranti (14 April) and the Makara Sankranti(14/15 January). The Makara Sankranti is also known as 'Uttarayana', because from this day, the Sun starts moving from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. This is the period of 'Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya', or the journey from darkness towards light - the spiritual light of knowledge, creativity and attainment. The days start getting longer and warmer.

Makara Sankranti is dedicated to the Sun and is observed as beginning a period of resurgence.

(a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
(b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

#768776

15 Jan 2023 14:37

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Makar Sankranti time is such a time that there are so many festivals concurrently going on in the country as per the local traditions or the community preferences for the respective celebrations. In our country, it is celebrated with much fun and frolic. In some states, kite flying is the major activity while in others partying and having good food take precedence.
In some places, food is offered to crows in the early morning. In some northern hilly places, garlands of homemade sweets are worn while feeding the crows. There is a great variety of celebrations across our country.
On this auspicious occasion, I take this opportunity to wish a happy and prosperous time to all the members of the ISC family.

Knowledge is power.

Happy Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Suggi Habba, Lohri, and Magh Bihu!

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