Makar Sankranti is a fun and delightful occasion. Like many other Indian festivals, the kite flying festival also has a historical and cultural significance attached to it. This festival is worth witnessing for two main reasons. For one, flying colourful kites with your family or buddies under the morning sun from a rooftop is an unbeatable experience.
The joy of flying kites and cutting the strings of other kites is unmatched, and the air of celebration is euphoric.
It is a tradition during this festival to offer a Til-Gul Laddoo sweets made of sesame seeds and jaggery to your close ones. The kite flying tradition is so famous that people also organise recreational competitions during this festival.
How cool would it be to be the last one standing? Or rather, to be the owner of the last kite flying! North India is the places to be for the Kite Flying Festival. Festivities take place on the 14th of January. Mumbai is another city where you can witness witness this as well. Malaria Mukt Bharat. Wealth Wise Series How they can help in wealth creation. Honouring Exemplary Boards. Deep Dive Into Cryptocurrency.
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The first day of the festival is called Bhogi, the second Sankranti, the third Kanuma and the fourth day Mukkanuma. Traditionally, this period is considered an auspicious time and it is believed that the veteran Bhishma of Mahabharata chose to die during this period.
Bhishma fell to the arrows of Arjun. With his boon to choose the time of his death, he waited on a bed of arrows to depart from this world during this holy period.
It is believed that those who die in this period are free from the cycle of rebirth. People rise early in the morning, take baths and go on the streets to sing devotional songs.
The girls, dressed in beautiful colorful customs, go in groups singing around. Houses and warehouses are cleaned and the front yards of the houses are adorned with rangolies or muggulu, which are beautiful floral design drawn on the floor with rice powder, a fine limestone powder, further decorated with marigold flowers placed on cowdung ball. Karnataka also celebrates this festival in a unique style. Families visit friends and relatives dressed in colorful clothes. They exchange sugarcane pieces, a mixture of fried til, molasses, dry coconut pieces, peanuts and fried gram, which signifies that sweetness should prevail amongst them in whatever they do.
On this day cows and bulls are washed and their horns are adorned with vivid colors and garlands and are made to jump over a bonfire lit at night. In Maharashtra people visit their friends and relatives and exchange multi coloured sugar and a mixture of fried til and molasses. New utensils are purchased and used for the first time in Hindu houses.
Vividly colored kites dot the skies.
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