Makar sankranti

Makar Sankranti is a harvest festival celebrated in major regions of India. According to the lunar calendar, when the sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn or Dakshinayana Uttarayana to the month of Poush in mid-January, it commemorates the beginning of the harvest season and the cessation of the northeast monsoon in South India.Makar Sankranti in 2011.

Celebrated in many ways traditional gaiety and enthusiasm in various parts of the country, these festivals reflect our glorious cultural traditions and promote the values of sharing, generosity and goodwill among people, the vice president said in his message . Makar Sankranti is observed throughout India, or communities with few alternatives. In northern India, it is time Maghi or Lohri.

Makar Sankranti is one of the most favorable opportunities for Hindus and is celebrated in almost all regions of the country in myriad cultural forms, with devotion, fervor and gaiety. This is a harvest festival. Makar Sankranti is perhaps the only Indian festival whose date always falls on the same day every year ie 14 January.n Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Sankranthi is celebrated for four days. Bhog, Sankranti, and Kanuma Mukkanuma are the four festivals during Makar Sankranthi.