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GIFT OF CIVILIZED CULTURE

Wish you all Happy Sankranti.
     This is the first festival of this new year. This festival is really started by our civilised ancestors with the intention to    abolish enmity and to motivate harmony in society. So there is custom that on this day, we forget the quarrels with others and give sesame and jaggery to all with the request to speak sweetly. But now a day what are we doing? On first January, we are wishing happy new year, on second January, we are doing riots, on 14th January again we are greeting all with the request to speak sweetly and on 26th January we are showing our patriotism. Whether the main intention behind celebrating
Sankranti can be fulfilled by such behaviour? Or now we don't need harmony,or now we have lost our power to think and are allowing the political leaders to use us as puppets. Really now this is the necessity of time for everyone to use our conscience and to behave according to our own decisions.
           In our India, almost in every state, this festival is celebrated in different ways and in different names. In South India,this festival is known as Pongal. In Bengal, it is known as Bhogi- Bihu. In Bihar, on this day,the people make centric rice. In Himachal Pradesh, on this day, some people tie bird’s or the sun’s images in children's neck. In Orissa, there is a custom to illuminate on this day. In Andhra Pradesh, on this day , the people celebrate Mukkanuma
       In our Maharashtra, some years ago, there was custom to prepare Halwa from sesame and sugar with hands. Now readymade Halwa made by machinery is available in market. So the art to make Halwa by hands is vanishing. Yet the tradition of making jewellery of readymade Halwa is still in existence.
             So, this is again a gift given by our ancient civilized culture to combine art with festival. So in Diwali we colour and decorate our house, on every festival we draw beautiful Rangoli , for Ganesh Utsav we decorate the place with new ideas. So salute to our ancestors who thought about nature, health,art and virtue while arranging our festivals. 

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