Cultural Festival
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10 facts about the divine Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra 1. Puri Rath Yatra is the largest chariot procession in the world https://t.co/vHQYSS6MYW
Unraveling the Mystique of the Indian Holi Festival 🎨 From All-Women to Coed, From Music & Fire to Water, From feast to Bhang Called by various names throughout the ages and regio...
Medaram Sammakka- Sarakkaa Jatara begins tomorrow, one of the largest ever tribal festivals, in India, that celebrates the sacrifice of two sisters, in their fight against the Kaka...
What comes to your mind when you hear “Makar Sankranti”? People celebrate it as Kite festival, harvesting season, end of winter but did you know: Makar Sankranti has another legen...
Important 🧵 My favourite festival #DurgaPuja is almost here. Please be wary of two vicious narratives, peddled by the usual suspects around this time. 1. Virtue signalling - On...
Happy Raksha Bandhan to all the brothers and sisters! 🙏🌸 Significance of Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi: (short thread) 1/4 Raksha Bandhan, often referred to as Rakhi, is a significant...
Guru Purnima Today India is celebrating festival of Guru Purnima. Guru is a Sanskrit word Gu = Darkness Ru = dispeller Here darkness is used symbolically When u r at dark pla...
Happy Cavalier's Day & Feast of St George— Many centuries ago, a dragon was terrorizing the city of Silene in Libya. 🧵 https://t.co/ELF2IEdFrJ
A brief history About Eyo and Eyo festival A Thread Retweet To Educate Someone https://t.co/ii4bVBQES1
Gargee'an (قرقيعان) is an eastern Arabian traditional annual festival which takes place on the 15th night of Ramadan. It is celebrated by children dressing in traditional attire &...
This #Holi we witnessed an attack on cultural festival from corporate (#BharatMatrimony)by connecting it with women harassment ,and anti national eco system did same with foreigner...
🔆Yaoshang Festival: ✅Recently, the five-day-long Yaoshang festival, Manipur’s version of Holi, has begun. ✅The festival is celebrated every year on the full moon of Lamta month (...
OFALA AGWU FESTIVAL!!!!!!!! You're cordially invited to my ANNUAL OFALA AGWU FESTIVAL.. This festival is done once in a year...It is the day a dibia map out to celebrate his Spir...
#DevDeepawali is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It falls on the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartika and takes place fifteen days...
The third major festival of the year marked the transition from the season of emergence and growth to the season of deficiency. It corresponded to harvest time, in March/April, and...
ARGUNGU FISHING FESTIVAL . SOKOTO PROVINCE - 1962 . A thread Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/eZSPMHgU4S
The Kano Durbar Festival All you need to know about it A thread Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/0sqrV2lFTS
1 It’s a blatant lie to say that Onam was a “secular” harvest festival. Letters of Jacobus Canter Visscher, Christian priest at Cochin (1717-1723) reveal that a special Decree of t...
🕉The World Famous #JagannathRathYatra at Puri #Odisha is the oldest festival taking place in India & the world marking the annual ceremonial procession of Lord Jagannath, his elder...
Celebration Of Menstruation and Womanhood Odisha is celebrating #RajaParba, a unique festival celebrated each year during the month of Asadha. During this period, it is believed t...
Pongal is a harvest festival. It’s inherently ecocentric (ergo inherently indigenous in concept.) It’s both local/regional and Hindu. There’s no dichotomy. If followers of Abrahami...
Today in Hauz khas,New Delhi, I saw the Rituals of one of the most eco-friendly and peaceful Hindu festival of India #ChhathPuja or #छटपूजा , clicked these pictures and sharing her...
Actually, #RakshaBandhan was originally not a brother-sister festival. It has its origins in a rite known as Vedopakarma (the beginning of Vedic Studies). 1/4
🕉 #Thread Today is Aadi Perukku - Monsoon festival celebrated on 18th day of Tamil month of Aadi (July- August). The festival is dedicated to the all the perennial river basins of...