Dance Festival
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Dussehra
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Gangaur
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The colorful festival of Rajasthan gangaur is one of the most important festival of Rajasthan celebrated by women of all ages. Women worship Gauri , the wife of Lord Shiva for the celebration of Martial Fidelity where unmarried women fast for their grooms to be and married women worship and fast for the long and prosperous life of their husbands.
The festival starts the next day of Holi and continues for 18 days and the women keep fasting for the next 18 days. During this meanwhile images of MaaGauri are imprinted on clay and wooden plasks. Unmarried women on the 7th day go around carrying an earthen pot with a burning lamp inside and collect small presents of sweets, jaggery , oil and etc. They keep on doing this until the last day when they break the pots and sway the debris in well and to mark the end of festival create a feast for them with the food material collected during the festival.
Udaipur has a special ghat just for this festival and hence makes one of the best places to see the vibrancy and love of this festival.
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Kumbh Mela
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The biggest of all, Kumbh Mela is the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims with over 120 million pilgrims attending the Mela in a go !!Coventionally 4 melas are regarded as the KumbhMela, the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the Allahabad KumbhMela, the Nashik-TrimbakeshwarSimhastha, and Ujjain Simhastha. These four fairs are held periodically at one of the following places by rotation and at any given place, the Kumbh Mela is held once in 12 years. Legend is that Lord Vishnu dropped drops of Amrita (Drops of immortality) at these 4 places while carrying them in a Kumbha pot. Each site’s celebration dates are calculated in advance according to a special combination of zodiacal positions of B?haspati (Jupiter), the Sun and the Moon.The mela is believed to have originated in the late 18th century and are not only of religious importance but are major commercial events since then.
Famous Author Mark Twain remarked KumbhMela in following excerpt
“It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination, marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites.
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Monastery Festivals
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Rath Yatra
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RathYatra of the Puri is the Oldest RathYatra Taking Place in India and world, whose existence can be dated back to 12th century! The festival commemorates Jagannath’s annual visit to Gundicha Temple via MausiMaa Temple.As part of RathaYatra, the deities of Jagannath,his elder brother Balabhadra and younger sister Subhadra are taken out in a procession to Gundicha Temple and remain there for nine days. Then the deities or RathaYatra return to the Main temple. The return journey of PuriJagannathRathaJatra is known as BahudaJatra.
Three richly decorated chariots,are pulled through the streets of Puri called Badadanda. This commemorates the annual journey of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and their sister Subhadra to their aunt’s temple. This is the only day when devotees who are not allowed in the temple premises, such as non-Hindus and foreigners, can get their glimpse of the deities. During the festival, devotees from all over the world go to Puri with an earnest desire to help pulling the Lords’ chariots with the help of other priests pulling the chariots with ropes. They consider this auspicious deed and risk their lives in the huge crowd.
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Camel Fair
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PushkarkaMela or the Camel Fair of Pushkar is an annual 5 day event happening in Pushkar, Rajasthan. It is one of the world’s largest camel fair festivals with attendance of over 1 million travellers every year. The festival focuses on promoting native culture and livestock with key attractions being MatkaPhod, Longest Moustache and the Bridal Competitions. People from far and near come here and buy sell each livestock with each other. It is celebrated from KartikEkadashi to KartikPoornima and is celebrated with lots of zeal and vigor.
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Shivratri
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Maha Shivratri Festival
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
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Holi
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A religious festival, Holi is celebrated just as spring sets in the country and is popularly known as the festival of colors. Celebrated on a day that per Hindu calendar is the Phalgun Purnima, the essence of the festival is embodied in the celebration of victory of good over evil. In the centre of the celebrations is the hometown of Lord Krishna, believed to be the incarnation of Lord Vishnu and the first to start this fun filled festival. Many believe that Holi rejoices the immortal love between Krishna and his beloved Radha.
Wish to experience the true and original spirit of this festival? Then, two of the must-visit places during this time are Mathura, the birthplace of Krishna and Vrindavan where he grew up. The celebration here starts almost a week prior to the actual date and is still done the way that the Lord used to enjoy with his Radha and the gopis.
The famous sites of Dwarkadheesh Temple in Mathura and the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan are filled with joyous chants, gulal or dry colors, flowers and lots and lots of sweets. Participate in the festivities in the true gopi style in the town of Barsana in Uttar Pradesh that was home to Radha. The temple complexes here have girls enact the scene of Radha and her group of friends celebrating Holi in the Lat Mar style where women hit the men, who play the role of Krishna’s friends, with sticks.
This is officially the start of Holi in the plains of North India. For the ones who want to experience a different form of Holi celebrations, it would mean travelling down to Shantiniketan in West Bengal, the birthplace of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Students of Viswa Bharati dress up in yellow saris and showcase folk dances to augment the Basanta Utsav. While in Anandpur Sahib in Punjab, the Sikh community celebrates Hola Mohalla, their interpretation of Holi, a day after Hindus celebrate. Rajasthan, the land of rajas and maharajas, is also the place to visit during this time and partake in the celebrations that fill the air and the streets for two days. The elephant ride on the Holi day can make the event extra special for you and your family.
“The festival of colours”, Holi is one of the most important Hindu festivals signifying victory of Good over Evil. The festival is celebrated widely not only in India and Nepal but also in the parts of America, Europe and South East Asia. Festival lasts for a night and a day.
During the night which is referred to as HolikaDahan or ChhotiHoli, people gather and pray their internal demons/sins to be destroyed the way evil Holika was killed in fire. Next morning is the RangwaliHoli or BadiHoli, where people smear each other with colours and drench each other with the help of water filled balloons and canons. Customary drinks like Bhang is distributed to create a sense of coolness and openness, its an intoxicating drink but is served in light propotions.
While Holi is celebrated in almost every part of India, Holi in Braj is especially famous. Braj is a historical region which covers the area of Mathura, Vrindavan and some nearby areas. Holi here attracts tourists and pilgrims from all over the world because of it’s special customs and traditions. Mathura is the birth-place of Lord Krishna and Vrindavan is the place where he grew up in his childhood.
People then dance to the tunes of drums, songs and celebrate the festival by enjoying each other’s groups. After sobering up people visit each other’s houses with delicacies and enjoy dinners.
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