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(21) HOLI
Holi is the most famous festival of colours. It is celebrated every year in the month of Falgun (March) by the people of Hindu religion. It is celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm as it brings feeling of love and closeness among people. Colourful colours are spread out by the people over each other. At this day we meet each other, handshake, hug and apply abeer on the forehead to each other. We sing religious songs (or Fagua geet) with musical instruments like Dholak, Kirtal, etc. At this special day we eat special things like gujhiya, sweets, chips, papad, halwa, pani puri, dahi bade, etc. A day before the colourful holi, Holika Dahan takes place.
Holi is a most favourite festival of all as it brings lots of joy and happiness. It is celebrated every year by the people of Hindu religion as a very important festival. It falls in the start of spring season generally in the month of March (or Falgun). Everyone wait for this festival with lots of courage and special preparations of how to celebrate it.
There is a great story of Prahlad behind celebrating the holi. Once Prahlad (who was a great devotee of God) was tried to be killed by his own father as he denied to worship his own father in place of God. His aunt, Holika, sit in the fire by keeping him in her lap on the order of Prahlad’s father but he was saved by the God as he was a true devote. And Holika burnt in the fire even after she was booned by the God to never get harmed by the fire. From that day, Hindu people start celebrating the festival of holi every year to remember the triumph of goodness over badness.
A day before colourful holi, people burn a heap of woods and co-dung cakes in the night in the myth of burning Holika to remember that day. Some people follow the special ritual of burning the waste of sarson ubtan massage of each family member in the Holika in the myth that doing so would remove all the evil power from the house and the body and bring happiness and positive power to the home.
In the next morning, people play with colours with their family members, relatives, friends and neighbours. Kids of the house enjoy this day by throwing colour filled balloons to each other or using pitchakri. Everyone go to the doors of other to meet, hug and apply abeer to the forehead showing their love and affection to each other. Special preparations are done for this day like arrangements of sweets, chips, namkeen, dahi bade, pani puri, papadi, etc.
(22) DUSSEHRA
The festival of Dussehra is also known as Vijayadashmi and celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm by the Hindu people all over the India. It is one of the most important religious festivals of the India. According to the historical beliefs and most famous Hindu scripture, the Ramayana, it has been mentioned that Lord Rama had performed a chandi-puja (holy prayer in order to get blessings of the Goddess Durga Mata to kill the powerful demon, Ravana. Ravana was ten-headed demon king of the Sri Lanka who had kidnapped the wife of Lord Rama, Seeta to take revenge of his sister, Suparnakha. From then, the day Lord Rama killed Ravana was started celebrating as the Dussehra festival.
Dussehra is the most significant festival of the Hindu religion celebrated all across the country. It falls every year in the month of September or October twenty days earlier to the Diwali festival. The celebration of Dussehra indicates the victory of Lord Rama over demon king Ravana. Lord Rama symbolizes truth and Ravana represents evil power. It is a great ceremonial and religious festival celebrated by the Hindu people with the worship of goddess Durga. The tradition and culture of celebrating this festival varies from region to region in the country.
It is a ten days long festival, nine days of which is celebrated by worshipping the goddess Durga and tenth day as Vijay Dashmi when people celebrate the victory of Lord Rama over the demon King, Ravana. A huge preparation for this festival takes place which starts few days earlier to the exact date. A big fair is held for whole ten days or a whole month where people from far regions come to make shops and stalls of all things necessary for the people. It takes place in the Ram-Lila ground in every society or community where a huge fair is held with the dramatic show of legends of Dussehra for all days. Paper models of the Ravana, Kumbhkaran and Meghnath are prepared in the Ram Lila ground and real people play the role of Rama, Seta and Lakshman.
Everywhere lights are on and whole environment becomes full of sound of firecrackers. People and kids used to see the fair including ram-lila whole night. Various important events of the life of Lord Rama are demonstrated by the real people in the Ram Lila. Thousands of men, women and children of the nearby regions get together in the Ram Lila ground to enjoy the show.
(23) GANESH CHATURTHI
Ganesh Chaturthi is a highly preferred and most popular festival of the Hindu religion. It is celebrated annually in the month of August or September with big enthusiasm. It is celebrated as a birth anniversary of the Lord Ganesha. Ganesha is a son of Mata Parvati and God Shiva. Lord Ganesha is a most favourite God of everyone especially children. He is the God of wisdom and prosperity so people in Hindu religion worship him to get the same. People bring a clay statue of the Ganesha and keep in home on Chaturthi and do worship for 10 days and perform Ganesh Visarjan on 11 day means on Anant Chaturdashi.
Ganesh Chaturthi is a most popular festival in India. It is celebrated every year with great enthusiasm by the people of Hindu religion. Children love too much to the Lord Ganesha and worship him to get blessings of wisdom and prosperity. People start preparation of the puja a month or week before the exact date of the festival. During this festive season, market become in a full swing. Everywhere shops are decorated with the attractive idols of Ganesha and electric lightings in order to increase sales of the idol to public.
Devotees bring Lord Ganesha to their home and perform idol installation with full devotion. It is believed in the Hindu religion that when Ganesha come to home brings lots of wisdom, prosperity and happiness to the home however when go back after 10 days take away all the problems and obstacles with him. Lord Ganesha loves children too much and called as friend Ganesha by them. Group of people prepare pandal to worship Ganesha. They decorate pandal with flowers and lightings to make attractive. Many people from the nearby areas come daily to the pandal to offer prayer and offerings to the God. They offer many things and especially Modak as He loves it too much.
It is celebrated in the month of August or September for 10 days. Ganesh Chaturthi puja involves two important processes; one is idol installation and second is idol immersion (also called as Ganesh Visarjan). There is a ritual in Hindu religion to perform Pranapratishhtha Pooja (to call the God for His holy presence into the idol) and Shhodashopachara (perform worship using sixteen ways to honour the God). There is a ritual of offering of Durva grass and Modak, jaggery, coconut, red flowers, red chandan and camphor while worshiping for ten days. A huge crowd of people involve happily in the Ganesha Visarjan on the end of puja.
(24) DIWALI
Diwali is the most significant and famous festival of the India which is being celebrated every year all over the country as well as outside the country. People celebrate it very enthusiastically to commemorate the returning of Lord Rama to his kingdom, Ayodhya after a long period of time of 14 years of exile after defeating the Ravana.
On the returning day of Lord Rama, people of Ayodhya had illuminated their homes and pathways to welcome their Lord with the great enthusiasm. It is a sacred Hindu festival which symbolizes the triumph of goodness over badness. It is also celebrated by the Sikhs to commemorate the release of their 6th Guru, Sri Hargobind Ji, from the Gwalior jail by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
Diwali is the most important and significant festival for the people of Hindu religion. It has many rituals, traditional and cultural beliefs of celebrating it. It is celebrated all over the country as well as outside the country with great enthusiasm. This festival is associated with many stories and legends. One of the great legends behind celebrating it is the victory of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana. That’s why Diwali is celebrated as a symbol of victory of goodness over the badness.
People celebrate it by getting together with their relatives as well as nearest and dearest ones. They celebrate it by sharing gifts, sweets, greetings and best wishes for Diwali. They enjoy a lot of activities, playing games, firing crackers, puja and many more. People purchase new clothes for all the family members according to their own capability. Kids enjoy this festival by wearing glittering and blazing clothes.
People enlighten their home and pathways with the clay diyas to remove the single bit of the darkness and to welcome the Goddess Lakshmi. People indulge in playing games, eating a variety of dishes at home and many more activities. Government offices are also involved in getting clean up and decorated. Everywhere looks enchanting and enthralling because of the cleaning, white washing of walls, decoration and lighting with diyas or candle.
In the evening, after the sunset men and women perform puja of the Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi and God of wisdom, Ganesh. It is believed that clean up, decoration, lighting diyas are very necessary at this day as Goddess Lakshmi come to visit the houses of everyone. It is celebrated all over the India as a symbolization of the unity.
(25) Christmas
Christmas is a big festival celebrated by the people in the winter season. Everyone enjoy a cultural holiday at this day. All the governmental (such as schools, colleges, universities, educational institutions, training centres, offices, etc) and non-governmental organizations become closed at this day. People celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm and lots of preparations and decorations. It is celebrated every year on 25th of December. It is known as the Feast day of Christ and celebrated in the honour of birth of birth of Jesus Christ. It is the day of great significance for the Christians.
Christmas is a big festival of joy and happiness. It is celebrated on the birth anniversary of the Jesus Christ (founder of the Christianity) faith every year on 25th of December in the winter season. It is observed as the Christmas Day to commemorate and give honour to the Jesus Christ. People enjoy the Christmas holiday all through the day by dancing, partying, singing and going outside the home for dinner. It is celebrated by the people of all religion, especially Christians. The wear new and colourful dress at this day and enjoy a lot. Everyone wishes each other by the quote of “Merry Christmas” and go to another’s house to exchange wishes and gifts.
Christian people start lots of preparations on this occasion at least a month ago. At this day, houses, offices, churches, etc are cleaned; white washed and decorated well using paper flowers, natural flowers, sceneries, pictures, looking glasses, wall buntings, etc. Market also gets decorated to look attractive and we can see the market full of Christmas cards, gift items, sceneries, toys, etc. People enjoy decorating their houses with the Christmas tree in the centre of house. They load the Christmas tree with lots of gift items like chocolates, candies, balloons, dolls, birds, flowers, lights, etc to make it bright and beautiful.
Christian people do pray to their God Jesus Christ, confess in front of God to remove their sins and sufferings, sing holy songs, and exchange lots of gifts among friends, relative, family members, neighbours, etc. They arrange a big feast including delicious dishes in the dinner which are served to all people. After feast everyone enjoy music, dance and sing at night. It is a festival of great fervour and rejoice which everyone enjoy all over the world.
(26) MOTHERS DAY
Mother’s Day is a happiest and highly memorable day of the year for every kids, children and students. Mother’s day is a special day of the year which has been dedicated for all mothers of the India. Mother’s Day is celebrated every year on second Sunday in the month of the May. This year in 2015, it would be celebrated on 10th of May (second Sunday) with lots of joy and happiness. Kids become very happy at this day and celebrate in front of their mothers at home or in school in order to honour their mothers.
Mother’s day is a very special day of the year for both kids and mother. It is being celebrated since many years every year on the second Sunday of the month of May in India. It is celebrated by the teachers and students in the schools by inviting mothers. Students take part in many cultural activities to impress their mothers. Mothers are especially invited to school by their kids on the order of school Principal and teachers. At this day mothers are given lots of gifts, love and respects by their kids. Kids prepare special poem recitation or conversation in Hindi or English for their mothers.
Mother’s day is celebrated in many countries at different days in order to highlight mother’s role in our everyday life. All mothers play lots of great role in the life of their kids from giving birth to making them a well being human. It is only mother who shapes the child’s character and then whole life. Every mother plays a great role in the growth and development of their child. She takes care about everything what a kid want. She understands herself fully responsible for her child from waking up in the morning till sleeping in the night.
She awake us in the early morning, help in brushing, bathing, preparing breakfast and lunch for school, dress up us, go to our PTM, help us in home work, give food, milk and fruits at proper time, give medicine at right time when we become ill, wash and iron our clothes, play football with us in the home play ground, she make us sleep in the night at proper time, prepare delicious dinner to us and other lots of activities. Actually we cannot count our mother’s daily activities. She does unlimited works for whole day long. She is only responsible for all works of all members of the family. Simply, we can say mothers are great.
(27) REPUBLIC DAY
Our country, India celebrates the Republic Day every year to honour the date when Constitution of India came into force. The Constitution of India replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as a governing document of India on the special date called 26 January in 1950. It has been declared as the national holiday by the Government of India. People in India enjoy this great day by celebrating in their own way. At this day a parade takes place in the national capital of India, New Delhi at the Rajpath (in front of the India Gate) in the presence of President of India.
26 January is knows as Republic Day which is celebrated by the people of India every year with great joy ad enthusiasm. It is celebrated to honour the importance of being a Sovereign Democratic Republic which was declared after the enforcement of Constitution of India in 1950 on 26th of January. It is celebrated to enjoy and remember the historic Independence of India from the British Rule. 26th of January has been declared as the gazetted holiday all through the country by the Government of India. It is celebrated by the students all over the India by getting participated in the events organised in schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions.
Government of India organises an event every year in the National capital, New Delhi where a special parade is held in front of the India Gate. People started to assemble at the Raj Path in the early morning to see the great event. A parade of all three wings of Indian armed forces starts form the Vijay Chowk displaying various arms, weapons, tanks, big guns and etc. Military bands, N.C.C cadets and police also take part in the parade playing different tunes. Some Mini celebrations by the state capitals are also take place in various states in the presence of state governor.
Various states of the country also display particular Jhanki related to their culture, tradition and progress after independence showing the existence of ‘Unity in Diversity in India’. Folk dances are exhibited by people as well as some dancing, singing and instruments plying activities takes place. At the end of event, a tri color (saffron, white and green) flower showering with aeroplanes takes place in the sky showing the symbol of National Flag. Some colourful balloons are also flown in the sky indicating the symbol of peace.
(28) CHILDRENS DAY
Children’s Day is celebrated in India every year with great enthusiasm on 14th of November. It is celebrated by the teachers and students in the schools and colleges with great passion and excitement. It is celebrated with lots of events and activities performed by the kids. School buildings get decorated with multicolor paints, colorful balloons and other decorative materials. Children’s day is celebrated on 14th of November, the birth anniversary of Pt. Nehru, because he loved children so much. Children participate in the activities like singing songs in Hindi and English, poem recitation, speech, dance, etc to remember Chacha Nehru’s great works for the country.
Introduction:
Children’s day is celebrated on birth anniversary of the Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru. According to him, children are bright future of the country. He was well known that bright future of the country depends upon the bright future of the children. He said that, a country cannot be well developed if its children are weak, poor and improperly developed. When he realized children as future of country, he declared his birthday to be celebrated as children’s day in order to completely focus and improve the status of children in the country. Children’s day is being celebrated since 1956 on 14th of November every year all over India.
Why it is Necessary:Children’s day celebration is very necessary to be celebrated every year in order to aware people about the real status of children, importance of children in the country as well as improve their status to make their future bright because they are the future of country. Children day celebration provides big opportunity to everyone especially neglecting people of the country. It force them to think about future of their children by realizing them duty and responsibility towards children. It makes people aware about the past status of children in the country and what should be real status of them for bright future of country. It is possible only if each and every individual would understand their responsibility towards their children.
How it is celebrated:
It is celebrated with lots of activities (related to children to build them ideal citizens) everywhere in the country. Many competitions held in the schools regarding children health in every aspect like physically, mentally and morally. People take pledge at this day to never neglect their children and realize that they are father of man. At this day, children are distributed new garments and rich food including picture books.
Conclusion:
Children’s Day is celebrated to make people aware that children are the real future of the country. So everyone should understand their responsibility towards their children and realize the importance of the children’s day celebration.
(29) TEACHERS DAY
As we all know that our teachers play a great and most important role in our lives. They helps us to improve our knowledge, skill level, confidence as well as they shape us in the right shape to get success. So, we too have some responsibilities towards our loyal teachers. We all as an obedient student need to do a heartily welcome and say them wishful thanks for their selfless service of teachings all through the life as well as shaping the life of various students. Teacher’s day (which is celebrated once a year on 5th of September) is the great chance to us to spend a day for them and say thanks.
Teacher’s Day is a very special occasion for everyone especially for the teachers and students. It is celebrated by the students every year on 5th of September to honour their teachers. 5th of September has been declared as the Teachers day in India. Our earlier President, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was born on 5th of September so Teacher’s Day in India is being celebrated on his birthday because of his love and affection towards teaching profession. He was a great believer of education and highly famous as the scholar, diplomat, teacher and President of India.
Teacher’s day is a great occasion for celebrating and enjoying the relationship between teachers and students. Now a day, it is celebrated with the big enthusiasm and joy in the schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions by both students and teachers. Teachers are given lots of wishes about long life from their students. In the modern time the celebration strategy of the teacher’s day has been standard. Students become so happy at this day and plan for the way of wishing their favourite teachers. Some students wish their favourite teachers by giving them gifts, greeting cards, pen, diaries, etc. Some students wish their teachers by sending them audio messages, emails, video messages, written messages, through online chat, social media websites like Facebook, twitter, etc. Someone just say “Happy teacher’s day” orally to wish.
We should realize the necessity and value of our teachers in our lives and celebrate Teachers’ Day every year to pay them homage for great job. Teachers are more than our parents who mold our mind towards success. They become happy and get their success in life only if their dedicated students go ahead and spread teachers name all over the world through his activities. We should follow all good lessons in our life taught by our teachers.
(30) INDEPENDENCE DAY
India got independence on 15th of august in 1947, so people of India celebrate this special day every year as the Independence Day on 15th of august. In the event celebration organized in the National Capital, New Delhi the Prime Minister of India unfurled the National Flag in the early morning at the Red fort where millions of people participate in the Independence Day ceremony.
During the celebration at Red Fort, New Delhi many tasks including March past are performed by the Indian army and cultural events by the school students are performed. After the national Flag hosting and national Anthem (JANA GANA MANA) recitation, the prime minister of India gives his annual speech.
At this day, we commemorate all the great personalities who had played their important role in the independence of India. During the Independence Day celebration, the National Flags are also hosted in school and colleges where many activities are performed by the teachers and students.
Independence Day is celebrated by the people of India every year on 15th of August as a National Holiday to commemorate the independence of India from the Kingdom of Great Britain on 15th of August in 1947. At this day, people of India pay heartily homage to the great leaders in the leadership of whom India became free forever. At this day, people celebrate in their own way by buying tricolour Flag, watching movies based on freedom fighters, listening patriotic songs, bonding with family and friends, participating in special contests, programs, and articles organized by the broadcast, print and online media to promote the awareness about day.
Jawaharlal Nehru became our first Prime Minister after the independence of India on 17th of August 1947 who raised the Flag at Lahore Gate of Red Fort in Delhi and given a speech. This phenomenon is followed by the other subsequent Prime Ministers of India where flag hoisting ceremonies, parades, march past, salute by 21 guns and other cultural events are organized. Other people celebrate this day by raising national flag on their clothes, homes or vehicles. On the midnight of 15th August in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had announced the independence of India by reading out his speech on “Tryst with destiny”. He said that after long years of slavery, it is the time when we will redeem our pledge with the end of our ill fortune.
India is a country where millions of people live together whether they belong to various religion, cultures or traditions and celebrate this special occasion with great joy. At this day, as being an Indian, we should feel proud and must take an oath to keep ourselves loyal and patriotic in order to save our motherland from any type of attack or humiliation by other countries.