Happy Sankranti
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Sankranti Festival is on January 14, 2009.
It is a highly revered festival celebrated in the state of Andhra Pradesh and other states of India mark the harvesting season. An important festival in India, Sankranti also called Pongal in the South of India is celebrated by offering prayers to the Sun God. Pongal gifts are exchanged among family members, relatives and friends. Houses are cleaned, and all maintenance jobs are done before this festival. Held in the middle of January, it is a time when the people get ready to thank God, Earth and their cattle for the wonderful harvest they have reaped. During the Pongal festival, different varieties of Muggus are drawn in front of the houses early in the morning. Apart from exchanging Pongal gifts, this festival also sees people exchanging lot of Pongal cards also.
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SANKRANTI was celebrated in Mauritius at Krishna Mandiram, Ave Berthaud Q Bornes. The function was officiated by Pandit Sanjiva Appadoo. For the first time the puja was performed in the style of Sai celebration of the Sankranti. The Sai Harvest as could be seen in the photo above. Devotees expressed their heartfelt thanks to Mother earth and offered their prayers to the Lord asked for His blessing to face the coming new year.
Every devotee brought in his/her share of the harvest and it was offered to the Lord. It was really amazing to see the amount of offering consisting of vegetables, fruits and pulses, greenries, coconuts etc.(picture above)
A typical dance item was also performed and children sang and dance around the green harvest . Pandit Sanjiva gave this festive atmosphere a spiritual vibration with his divine performance and philosophical explanation of the event. Everybody was blessed with the divine Paadukas of Sai BaBa.( A special style of Pandit Sanjiva)
Maha Prasadam was served to all devotees. The typical pongal annam was shared by all and everybody carried with him/her a part of the harvest back home.
A good initiative that need to be encouraged n congratulated.You need to adopt the kaizen principle to ensure excellence ultimately.
Bon courage and hope to see more and more interesting articles coming one after another.
By: p.Kistomohun on January 15, 2009
at 9:09 am
Thanks
By: drreddy on January 15, 2009
at 1:28 pm
Congratulations on your excellent initiative
Dr. Reddy.I am certain this will bring unity in the
community as well as motivate the young to understand their rich Teluga culture. Bon courage.
By: Narain Ramana on January 16, 2009
at 2:22 pm
I am pleased to read about this event taking place in the temple where I grew up and learn my basic Telugu language from Linga Appalsamy and Pandit Narain Sooriah whom are no more. I was informed by Pandit Sanjiva Appadoo that this event would be held there and that it would be filmed/reported by the Telugu Programme at MBC. This is all very good in order to ensure our special way of celebrating such events are preserved for future generations.Although I’ve been living in UK for over 40 years I am still interested in everything concerning the development of our language and culture by our Telugu brothers and sisters.
I congratulate all those people concerned in working in one way or another to preserve the memories of our people like Potti Sriramulu, Thyagaraja and even those ones from Mauritius. Dr Reddy’s Journal is in the wanguard in bringing these events to our notice where ever we find ourselves. Many thanks.
Dr Bala Lingiah
By: david B. on January 21, 2009
at 2:07 pm