Category: Festivals

09 May 2024 10:49

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It is the festival time out here

God has a particular way of encouraging socialization and some business transactions as well. In the town called Sholinghur where I live, the Amman koil festivals in the surrounding villages are on. Farmers get to sell their produce in the "thideer" bazaars. Cheap sweets, made out of local ghee and plam oil spring. Thideer is the Tamil word for sudden. Now, there are at least fifty carts selling a huge variety of all bangles, particularly the glass bangles
Everyone makes merry. After or on the day of the main festival, there is a liberal amount of animal sacrifice -- mostly goats and sheep.

Well, the amounts that daily change hands, even in the villages having just a 60000 population, is reportedly not less than ten hundred thousand rupees, as the devotees come to the village from at least twenty five nearby villages. They pray to the particular God for something-- a natural child birth, jobs for their sons or daughters or better relationships with their mothers in law and so on. And there are stories that some good always have happened.

There are stories of a man finding his future wife in such gatherings and then everything gets arranged through the parents on either side.

Are there summer temple festivals in your places?

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09 May 2024 12:23

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In our village, the Village Goddess festival will be celebrated oneday before Telugu Ugadi. The summer will be starting. The festival is very big. Almost all the houses in the village will have many relatives for that festival. Many shops will arrive and those shops will be there in that village for about 15 days. The village Goddess will be famous and people from 10 to 15 villages around that village will come and have the Darshan of this Goddess.
All our family members gathered in our village for this festival this year and we stayed there for about 15 days. My Granddaughters enjoyed this festival. They used to visit these shops in the evenings during our stay there and used to enjoy them. That is a different experience for them.
On nights, near the temple, various special shows will be organised and many people go there and see those programmes. This time I met many of my old friends there during that time.

drrao
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12 May 2024 06:17

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In earlier days in the villages, there were seasonal festivals alongwith local business of goodies and people from nearby areas came there not only to enjoy but also to buy some special items or sell their goodies and make a quick buck.
With modernisation and fast urbanisation this trend has vanished in some places but in many other places where it was linked to some temple or religion, it still continues.
In my native place, Uttarakhand, we have a festival called 'Hilljatra' where local artists perform by wearing animal masks on their faces and on the sidelines there are shops selling local items and people have fun and frolic during that time. This festival is observed during the rainy season just at the end of summer.

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It is the festival time out here

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