Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Lohri


Happy Lohri to me and all of you


Its an Indian harvest festival, North Indian to be specific, which is celebrated on 13th January every year. It's celebrated in night, when family and friends all get together in outdoors and have a bonfire. Everybody revolves around bonfire 7 times and offers peanuts, popcorns and sweets to bonfire. This is followed by loud punjabi songs and dances.


One of the most famous lohri folk song goes like this:

Sunder mundriye ho!

Tera kaun vicaharaa ho!

Dullah bhatti walla ho!

Dullhe di dhee vyayae ho!

Ser shakkar payee ho!

Kudi da laal pathaka ho!

Kudi da saalu paatta ho!

Salu kaun samete!

Chache choori kutti!

zamidara lutti!

Zamindaar sudhaye!

bade bhole aaye!

Ek bhola reh gaya!

Sipahee far ke lai gaya!

Sipahee ne mari eet!

Sanoo de de lohri te teri jeeve jodi!

Bhaanvey ro te bhaanvey pit!

5 comments:

  1. Happy Lodhi!
    Enjoy the time.
    In Maharashtra, it is time for Makar Sankranti, when you give sweets to your people asking them to talk like sweet.

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  2. IT IS ALMOSTA LIKE THE FESTIVAL OF "HOLI" IN GUJARAT.NEXT DAY OF HOLI IS "DHULETI"IN THIS FESTIVAL PEOPLE PLAYS WITH COLOR.RAJASTHANI PPL.CELEBRATES LIKE "DEEWALI".

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  3. Gujrati celebrate all the festival beautifully..
    one of the most beautiful states of India.. :)

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  4. Ya!
    It is also true for panjabis,we were at Amritsar in the m/o Sept.Ppl. are great, food is so delicious,even today we remember "Brother Dhaba",when we asked why food is so sweet simple answer was "Guru ki nagri hai".Abslutly TRUE,and there is no words for "LANGAR".

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  5. I can do a whole post describing Punjabis :) I am one after all. :)

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