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| Festival map of india |
It’s one country, or different states,
Where have you
landed, Gulliver mate!!!
As I move up, as
there is no down,
Food, language, festivals
changes, without change of crown…
It seems some dream,
but the reality does screams,
Must is a land of
god, I mean…
And I see no harm,
naming it ‘land of festivals and cuisine’,
And here definitely
joy reigns…..
Wondering…, where Mr. Gulliver’s ship crashed this time,
or is it land of fiction
(at least Gulliver is character of fiction) or is it land of God!!? This land
is no work of fiction but is a land of god and land of wonders (even it keep
surprising people living in that land). Gulliver wouldn’t have been this much in
dilemma, if he would had care once to read report of 1498 of vasco Da Gama
(might not read as Portuguese and Englishmen are counterparts in sea) or even
of any English traveller who travelled to this land they called ‘India’. And
one who has known India would definitely say “10 points to gryffindor” for
Gulliver naming India as land of festivals and cuisine. Now for those who are
unaware (even those unaware can also read, might find something new), if you
have read definition that ‘festivals are typically a period of joy and
celebration (be it religious and national) and cuisines are a way to win hearts
(Dil ka raashta pet se hokar jaata hai), then believe me Indians are always
joyous and they have many dishes (I mean uncountable, even utterly-butterly
delicious) to reign hearts.
Now, if you venture (probably to know more) with
Gulliver, you are in south India (beware before stepping, you will be full of
taste and culture) with its crispy dosa (whether plain or masala), and idlis
(be with chutney or sambar)soft as new born’s cheeks, uthapam with its variety
of toppings (kerala’s pride), biryani from Hyderabad (a taste with its own
taste), paniyaram fried with love (don’t mistake it with idli), long idiyappa
(their own noodles), mysoree pak ( for dessert) and many other extravaganza’s
welcoming you, not failing to tickle your every tastebuds (even while writing
my mouth is watering)… and… and… and to garnish it, multitude of festivals. In
one place you will be welcomed ‘Wannakam, Please enjoy our harvest festival
Pongal while eating Pongala as we feed our cow’, another will race you on boats
and show you the majestic beast of the jungle, ‘the elephant’ decorated like a
new bride, know it as Onam (another harvest festival), might be wondering when
comes this land’s new year, know it by celebrating Ugadi also known as Gudi
Padwa by people in middle of this land. Now if you dare to move forward to the
land of valours, you will be encountering Lord Ganesha coming to homes, you
might get to eat modak, this is Ganesh Chaturthi. You will also encounter
people who while travelling carry one bag full of sweetness and spiciness, be
it bhakarwadi, khandava, dhokla, thepla and many others that days will end but
names of food won’t (all in one area) and they also have their kite festival
(sky full of kites) for you to enjoy those delecacies. Hey, don’t get tired of
eating and enjoying you still have litti, dal bati, Momos (favourite snack of
every), Thukpa, Dalma and not to forget Ragulla of Ragulla like people with
their different fish cooking style. They too will welcome you to sleep in bhela
ghar during Bihu, eat thekua during chhath, to be ascetic during kumbh and to
pull Rath in Rath yatra. This is not all, they have surprises too. Basically,
every place in india has their own harvest festivals as they love to thank god
for the grains so they can make delicacies. But they have religious ones too(
those above are regional), they will paly with colours with you in Holi
forgetting anmity, or they will hug you during id and serve sewaiyan to you
signifying their love for you, they will light diyas being positive in darkest
hour asking you to do good karma and will always keep you joyous and reign your
heart.
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But these festivals are slightly being forgotten and food
are being labelled antique as people are moving towards more easy life and
copying west more and more. These festivals and food binds us, this
gives rise to good moral values, supporting us to live together and peacefully.
When lunch boxes opens in a school, different tastes are experienced and
different holidays are being talked with the festivals enjoyed. Today Indians
feel proud when they hear their country be recognized for its festivals and
food. So we should move to our own festival and cuisine. We do can enjoy
west but not by replacing it. And I think we will keep celebrating those
diverse festivals together, enjoying variety of tasteful extravaganzas. So when
asked, who are you, we can say,
‘We are Indians who enjoy festivals and taste new
food every day’
When
we are
talking about Indian festivals the Indian foods and its cuisine coming
in our mind as well as the aroma of Indian dishes and its spices tempting us.
India is famous for its fresh and aromatic
spices that make the Indian cuisine
tempting the people of world. Indian cuisines are much related to
its culture and festivals. India is country of festivals and every festivals
has its own cuisines. Different festivals are celebrated locally in different
region and some festivals are celebrated very widely in all region of the country.
India
is a country of diversity. It is diversed with various geographical land as
well as in with different religions of people. People of different religion live
here with together. They assimilate different culture of each other and make
the country colourful, joyful, and full of cuisine and tests. They celebrate
each others festivals and learn the cuisine of the festivals. We can say they
celebrate festivals every day, every week and every month and make the rich of culture
foods and tests.
“India is our
country. We celebrate many festival in our country like Holi , Diwali, Iid, Christmas
and guru Purnima. we celebrate the festivals for happiness, enjoyment and we cook the aromatic dishes and enjoy to
share it. We very fond of cuisine of our
country where ever we are.” Said by Prerna a student of Central School of
India.
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| food map of India |
The country is famous for it cuisine
that we make in festivals. The country is divided into state as per geographical
region. The are some variation in culture and tradition in every region. And
the people of the states celebrate their festival as per their culture,
tradition and enhance the Indian cuisine as the grains and spices
produced on their land.
There are some quotes mentioned in
indian holy books like “ ATITHI DEVO BHAVA” It is in Sanskrit language
which means guests are like the GOD. “VASHUDHAV KUTUMVAKAM” It is too in
Sanskrit which means people of whole earth are our guest or relatives. This can
be imagined the essence of indian culture and traditions of India. All the
festivals are on the themes of welfare of people, saving of nature and for good
environment.
The same festival (the festival of
harvesting) is celebrated with different names in different states of India. If
we come to Gujarat
side
people celebrate Sankranti and make undhiyu dish, people fly kites and enjoying to cut their kites. when they cuts others
kites they shout KAI PO CHE!!! The fragrance of Tillkut (Till + gud) and jalebi fafra spread arround.
The same harvesting festival In Karnataka people with dishes laddoo, ellu Bella, sakkare acchu and they eat sugarcane.
In Delhi they make kheer. In Rajasthan people make chikki. In west Bengal people make rasgulla. In Chhattisgarh they made tilkut. People in south India they celebrate
too. In Tamilnadu people celebrate PONGAL they cook rice in sugarcane juice under
sugarcane plant and when it cooked properly they shout ‘‘PONGALO PONGAL’’!!!
in Kerala they call this festival Onam they do boat racing, the karala is
famous for its boat race.
And in Assam they call it bhihu, women are
dancing and men are play dholak.
In Bihar people call it khichari or makar Sankranti they cook khichari dish. They cook fresh and
raw rice in pulses and vegetable. The eat the khichari with curd, paper and
chatney (sauce). People also enjoy the test of beaten rice with fresh curd and
sugar and sweets. These all are harvesting festivals.
DIWALI THE
FESTIVAL OF LITGHS
Diwali is celebrated all over the India too, like Holi. The festival is mentioned in the Holy book RAMAYANA. And the reason on this day ram, sita and Lakshman the sons and son’s in-law of king came back from exile after defeating the Ravana the king of Srilanka. The exilement of 14 years for Ram is awarded by his father dasharath. People cleaned their house and surroundings and welcomed them by lightning the earthen diyas and distributed sweets and gifts to each other with happiness. Sri Ram is ideal for people of the country. He is famous for his sacrifice and he set high level of personal behavior in his life. Since then people celebrate the this festival we call it Diwali (series of DIYAS)
The goddess of prosperity called “LAXMI”
is worshiped. People open their treasure and money wallets to welcome the
goddess.
Children burst crackers for enjoyment. All the houses are being white washed, cleaned. The offices are decorated. Different
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| Indian Diwali Rituals |
lucrative offers are offered by business houses, shops. The town streets are crowed with shoppers.
On this day people decorate their house
with dia and decorate with night blow. We
can not forget the essence the aromatic cuisine of the day. A lot of variety of
dishes sweets are cooked in houses. Let me tempt you
by listing the names of cuisine prepare on eve of Diwali. gujiya, rasgulla, sohanpapri,
gullabgamun, pookore, nankeen, laddoo, manturian, etc.
If we talked about dishes Puri, Bhature,
Kachouri, Pulav, Dalmakhani, shahi Dalfry, DumAllu (Potato) palak paneer,
Mutter paneer, gobhi fry etc are Most popular food in India. people go to their relatives and share
gifts to each other. But one thing about the Diwali we all children burst
crackers that is bad thing we make our earth polluted. It creates problem to all
the elderly and small Children. they face the difficulty while taking breath,
so we should not burst crackers on Diwali.
HOLI THE FESTIVAL OF COULORS
Holi is celebrate in all over the India, people colored, throw colorful water and water balloons on any person, people make dhahi bhara, pua, gullabgamun, coconut laddoo and etc the least is so big. I love Holi my favorite festival.
DASHAHRA THE FESTIVAL OF TRUIMPH EVILS
RAMJAN IID THE FESTIVAL OF FRATERNITY
Muslims celebrate Ramzan Eid. Muslims fast during the entire
month of Ramzan and adhere the simplicity and celibacy. On last day by watching
The MOON they break the their fast and celebrate the ID by distributing sweets and
gifts to poor. The main cuisine cooked are SEWAIA, Pullav, Halwa etc.
MOHARAM
GANESH CHATURTHY
Ganesh Chathurthi is
the festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha. It is celebrate in Maharastra
and Gujrat provinces of India. Huge clay idols of Lord Ganesh are brought home
with much fanfare. After ten days worship of the idols they are immersed in the sea amidst a lot of
firecrackers and festivities.
GURU PARV BAISHAKHI
Christmas day !!! I love it.
Christmas is the festival of Christians. When Jesus Christ born on this day. Children think’s the
Santa give gifts in night of Christmas. We eat candies, cookies, toffies, cake, and etc.
Indian festival may
related to its either religions or harvesting and the third is National
festivals.
ESSAY ON The Indian Festival
And Cuisine
Festivals are an integral part of Indian culture. They play an
important role in promoting communal togetherness and harmony. Festivals are
those very special occasions when people get together and indulge in traditional
ceremonies and rituals at the same a feast is enjoyed with variety of Indian
Cuisine. In India numerous festivals
are celebrated.
Many festivals mark the birth anniversaries of Gods. Ganesh
Chathurthi is the festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha. Huge clay
idols of Lord Ganesh are brought home with much fanfare. After ten days the
idols are immersed in the sea amidst a lot of firecrackers and festivities.
Janmashtami is the birthday of Lord Krishna.
The most important
festivals of the Hindus is Diwali – the festival of lights. It is celebrated
with lights, crackers, sweets and feasts all over India. It marks the beginning
of the New Year. Goddess Laxmi is worshipped on this day.
Holi is the festival of
colours. Fun and frolic marks this festival. People throw gullal (coloured
powder) on each other. Rakshabandhan is another festival that is very dear to
the people of India . On this day, sisters tie a rakhi, (a little string) on
the wrist of their brothers which is symbolically meant to keep brothers safe
from harm. Brothers give gifts to their sisters and promise to protect them. Christians
celebrate Christmas with midnight mass. Muslims celebrate Ramzan Eid.
Muslims fast during the entire month of Ramzan. Different cuisine are famous in different
festivals such as different types of sweets are made in Diwali, Thekua
is made in Chhath Puja, Pua Pakawan in Holi etc.
The main occupation of
the people in India is agriculture, hence many harvest festivals are celebrated
on a big scale. Pongal is the harvest festival celebrated by the people
of Tamil Nadu and Makara Sankranti is the harvest festival
celebrated in Western India. The most beautiful aspect of this day is the multi-coloured
kites that cover the sky. In Punjab the harvest festival is celebrated
as Baisakhi. festivals are
largely bright and happy. Colourful lanterns festoon the homes. While strings
of paper adorn the walls, colourful flowers adorn the places of worship.
Some people draw colourful rangolis outside their homes which are works
of art. While lanterns light up the homes, fire crackers brighten up the
skies. Everyone comes together to celebrate festivals irrespective of
their castes or creed. Music blares from loud systems and often youth are found
breaking into dance near road side pandals. Dance, music, prayer and sweets
form an integral part of all festivities and impart the gaiety and glee that
Indian festivals are famous for.
Thank you so much……😃😃😃😃😃
The children express their joy of on piece of paper
Types of festivals in India
Festival of harvesting in India:
Sankranti (khichari)
Vaishakhi (Lohari)
Pongal
Onam
Bihu
Religious festivals of India:
Deepawali
Dashahara
Holi
Ramnavami
Ganesh chaturthy
Iid
Bakarid
Moharam
Christmas
Janmasthami
Regional festivals in India:
Chhath
Gurunanak Jayanti
National festival of India: 👪💑
Indipendence day
Republic Day
Gandhi Jayanti
FESTIVALS OF HARVESTING IN INDIA
Makar Sankranti
Pongal
Onam
Bihu
Baishakhi
Khichadi
Spices of India
Cumin seeds
Cinnamon
Cloves
Bay leaf
Black pepper
Ginger
termeric
Garlic
Onion
Coriander
Fenugreek
Grains of India:🌲🌳🍀🍞🌽🍛
The grain produced in the country is very much related to its
cuisine. Hence it is required to know the grains of India produced in long belt
of fertile farm of river’s banks :
Wheats
Pearl millet (bajra)
Rice (Paddy)
Jwar
Ragi
Sweat potato
Beat root
Lentil (massor)
Tuer (pigeon peas)
Peas
Pea nuts
Gram
Black gram (Urad)
Potato
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