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Lohri Customs and Traditions in North India: Bonfire Festival

Lohri Customs and Traditions: Hindu Culture & Tradition

Lohri Customs and Traditions: The various customs and traditions attached to the festival of Lohri signifies the harvesting of the Rabi crops. The people of Northern India, especially Punjab and Haryana celebrate Lohri, to mark the end of winter. Harvested fields and front yards are lit up with flames of bonfires, around which people gather to meet friends and relatives …

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Happy Lohri SMS in Hindi, Punjabi and English: Harvest Festival

Happy Lohri SMS In Hindi & Punjabi

Happy Lohri SMS For Students: Lohri is a widely celebrated harvest festival, especially in Northern India. Friends and family get together to celebrate this festive occasion by arranging a bonfire in the outdoors, during the evening. Lohri is the time to reconnect with friends, relatives and loved ones and send them hearty wishes, wherever they are. Every festivity is marked …

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Lohri Bonfire Harvest Festival Celebration by North Indians

Lohri - Bonfire Celebration

Lohri Bonfire: Despite icy wind, the festive mood of Lohri is keep its warmth owing to its Bonfire celebration. It is an accepted fact that this festival is to worship fire. Lohri is not a religious festival, but a celebration marking the end of an intense winter and it also celebrates the sowing of the rabi crop. It celebrates the …

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Legends of Lohri Festival: Thanksgiving to Sun God, Dullah Bhatti

Legends of Lohri Festival: Punjabi Culture & Tradition

Legends of Lohri Festival: There are few renowned legends associated with this historic festival of Punjab, the most significant of them being the Dullah Bhatti, which evolved around the Festival of Lohri. Lohri marks the end of the dreary and awfully cold month of Pos (mid December to mid January) and the next day of Makar Sankranti, ushers in the …

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North India to celebrate Harvest Festival of Lohri: Winter Solstice

Harvest festival of Lohri is being celebrated with traditional fervor and enthusiasm in most parts of North India today. Lohri is a popular festival celebrated by the people of Punjab, particularly of the Sikh and Hindu faiths. The origins of Lohri are many and it is primarily linked to the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Many people believe the …

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Lohri: Sikhs Bonfire Harvest Festival of North India

Lohri Festival

Lohri: Sikhs Bonfire Harvest Festival – Amidst the freezing cold weather, with the temperature wobbling between 0 – 5 degree Celsius and the dense fog outside, everything seems stagnant in the northern part of India. However, below the apparently frozen surface, you would be amazed to find a palpable wave of activity going on. People, especially in the northern states …

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Social Significance of Lohri Festival: Harvest and Fertility Festivals

Social Significance of Lohri - Punjab Harvesting Festival

Social Significance of Lohri: Though Lohri festival has no religious significance but it holds a great social significance and is celebrated as a day of imparting social love to one and all. The festival of Lohri is meant to relieve people from worldly day to day routine, and make them relaxed, cheerful and happy. It is the time when people …

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Who was Dulla Bhatti and his relation with Lohri Festival?

Who was Dulla Bhatti and his relation with Lohri Festival?

Dulla Bhatti was a famous legendary Rajput hero of Punjab, who led a rebellion against the famous Mughal king Akbar. There is a kind of epic in Punjabi language called Dulle di var, which narrates the battle events of Dulla Bhatti. Still there is a famous region in Punjab (now in Pakistan), called Dulle Di Bar means the forest of …

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वीर बाल दिवस: 26 दिसंबर – गुरु गोविंद सिंह के साहिबजादों को समर्पित

वीर बाल दिवस: 26 दिसंबर - गुरु गोविंद सिंह के साहिबजादों को समर्पित

धर्म के लिए हुए बलिदान, मुगलों के सामने नहीं झुकने दी खालसा की शान: कहानी गुरु के उन साहिबजादों की जिनको समर्पित है ‘वीर बाल दिवस’ सतलुज से लेकर यमुना नदी के बीच के पूरे क्षेत्र पर वजीर खान का ही शासन चलता था। उसने गुरु गोविंद सिंह के 5 और 8 वर्षीय बेटों साहिबजादा फ़तेह सिंह और साहिबजादा जोरावर …

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