Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Makar Sankranti

It is 8..30 pm January 14th, another day coming to end. In India it must be the next day after Sankranti. I recall it now as I open Helium.com; a site which I regularly contribute my writings to. It is amazing to find all featured articles on homepage dedicated to Sankranti.

The articles on topics as varied as faith tourism, the international kite festival and introduction to Hindu calendar; add on to the more quintessential articles on Sankranti celebrations in different regions like Lohri in Punjab and Pongal in Tamil Nadu.

The burgeoning Indian population is making Hindus ubiquitous. I had been celebrating Sankranti since childhood savoring til ke laddoos and Kichdi; even today I made for the occasion pretty edible laddoos, but the global importance and presence of Sankranti, I came to know today.
Please click on the picture, to see the article titles. I have really invested time on capturing the web page. First searched for the software; came across snagit, downloaded the trial version.It was okay till here but the actual usage of software, capturing a webpage and publishing in blog took me over two hours and here it goes.