Makar Sankranti

Author : GAYATREE DEVJI JAT

The auspicious festival of Makar Sankranti is celebrated across the country with lots of gaiety and splendour. Offering prayers and worship to the Sun God, Makar Sankranti inspires to have peace and unity.

Spiritual significance behind the festival
According to legends, on this special day, Lord Sun meets his son Sani for the first time. Another story says that on the day of Makar Sankranti Lord Krishna demolished the terror of Ashuras. Hence this period symbolizes the ending of evil power and the beginning of a peaceful new era. In different regions of India, this festival is known by different regional names and the festivities are performed with varied rituals amidst of fun and merriment.

Uttarayan in Gujarat

Makar Sankranti is observed as Uttarayan or International Kite Festival in Gujarat. The sky changes colours as millions of kite enthusiasts pitch themselves from rooftops and open fields. Waves of kites’ overwhelm the otherwise deep blue sky. Many kites have social messages, awareness information marked on exclusive patterns and designs. Figurative and geometric designs on kites are also common.
Fun-loving rivalry to outdo each other in kite flying skills and delicious traditional Gujarati feast ofUndhiyo and Jalebeeare the hallmarks of the day.

Lohri in Punjab
People of Punjab and Haryana, are busy in making preparations for their much-awaited bonfire festival, Lohri. This is the time when they can come out of their homes and celebrate the harvesting of the Rabi (winter) crops.
On the day of Lohri, children go from door to door singing and demanding the Lohri ‘loot’ in the form of money and eatables like til (sesame) seeds, peanuts, jaggery, or sweets like gajak, rewri, etc. They sing in praise ofDulha Bhatti, a Punjabi avatar of Robin Hood who robbed the rich to help the poor and once helped a miserable village girl out of her misery by getting her married off like his own sister.

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