Kurnool: In Kurnool and Nandyal, Sankranti is celebrated in a more subdued manner, as it falls during a non-agricultural season. Unlike other parts of the state where crops are harvested by ...

Harvest season begins around the country ... kite flying is a major highlight during Makar Sankranti, symbolizing freedom and joy. Holy Dips: Devotees take dips in sacred rivers like the Ganges ...

The food prepared and shared during Makar Sankranti represents the bounty of the new harvest and is a way to thank nature for the abundant crops. Pongal is cooked in new pots in Tamil Nadu and ...

As the year’s first harvest ... the new crops are harvested and the shared joy of harvesting the crop is celebrated by the community.. This harvest festival is celebrated as Makar Sankranti ...

“Ariselu is mainly prepared during Sankranti from the first harvest. It is made with soaked ... farmers have sowed and expect that the future crops will also be as bountiful,” adds Chef ...

These festivals mark the beginning of the harvest season and hold cultural and regional significance. In North India, it is celebrated as Makar Sankranti, the Punjabi community observes Lohri ...

Pongal is celebrated during the harvest festival of Sankranti, a time of thanksgiving to nature for the bounty of crops and a marker of the sun's northward journey, or uttarayana, according to ...

Lohri, which marks the harvest ... with Makar Sankranti, Pongal, and other festivals celebrated on the same day. Lohri is celebrated to mark the end of the sowing season of winter crops.

It is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamils all over. They light bonfires, dance, hold cattle races. The houses boast of ...

marks the end of winter and the harvest of rabi crops. Makar Sankranti is kite-flying day in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The International Kite Festival is held in Gujarat during this time.

A festive atmosphere is prevailing in villages as people began returning to their native towns for Sankranti ... crop next year. They decorated their houses and bullocks and carts for the harvest ...