INTRODUCTIONTHE INDIAN FESTIVALs

SANDIP VISHWAKARMA

Life is a festival only to the wise

• A Festival is an event  celebrated by a community ,centering and focussing on some important aspect of that communitytheir  religion or •traditions, often marked as a holiday.

A FESTIVAL

•These celebrations offer a sense of belonging for religious, social, or geographical groups, build cohesiveness among them. They may also provide entertainment for people

• They give us a distraction from our day to day exhausting routine of life, and helps us to remember the important things and moments in life.

• Festivals were started to pass the legends, knowledge and traditions onto the next generation.

INDIAN FESTIVALS• All nations have their religious and colourful

festivals. However, Indian festivals are known to attract the world due to their harmony, variety, colour and excitement.

• India is also called as “the land of festivals” • Here festivals are celebrated with great 

passion and joy. Even the foreigners who arrive in India get overwhelmed after watching the Indian festivals. 

• Festivals are the important part of life of Indian people. When religion intervened to invest the festivals with spiritual meaning, this joy is mixed with the joy of worship and  celebrated by different cultures through their special rituals, add to the colours of the Indian Heritage. Some festivals welcome the seasons of the year, the harvest, the rains, or the full moon. Others celebrate religious occasions.

TYPES

GANESH KUMAR SINGH

• Three types of festivals are mainly celebrated in India such as National, Religious and Seasonal. Each festival has its own significance and teachings.

• 1. National Festivals• 2. Religious Festivals • 3. Seasonal and Harvesting festivals

• 1. National Festivals in India• are celebrated with proud 1.1 Republic Day• Republic Day is celebrated all over the country on

26th January every year. On this day, i.e., 26th January, 1950, India’s constitution came into force.

• 1.2 Independence Day• Independence Day is celebrated all over the country

on 15th August each year. On this day, i.e., 15th August, 1947, India got its independence from the hands of the British Empire

• 1.3 Gandhi Jayanti• Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated every year on

2nd October in the eve of birth of Mahatma Gandhi, popularly called a “Father of the Nation”.

• 2. Religious Festivals in India• shows the religious association of people with the festival. The major

religious festivals includes Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Diwali, Krishna Janamastami, Durga-Puja, Dussehra, Maha Shivaratri, Eid, Christmas, Easter, Buddha Purnima, Mahavir Jayanti, etc.

• There are many types of religious festivals celebrated in India. Some important of them are discussed below:

• Holi•Diwali•Dussehra. Durga Puja

• 2.5 Durga Puja• People worship Devi Durga on this day. Durga

Puja is the most popular in West Bengal. People wear new clothes and move out of their homes to see the beautifully decorated Pandals.

• 3. Seasonal Festivals in India• are celebrated to mark the harvesting of crops and the change of seasons. The major

seasonal and harvesting festivals that are celebrated in India includes Basant Panchami, Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Lohri, Onam, Baisakhi, Bhogali bihu, etc.

• There are many types of seasonal and harvesting festivals celebrated in India. The most important of them are discussed below:

• 3.1 Basant Panchami / saraswati puja• The day of Basant Panchami (also Vasant Panchami) is celebrated by the Hindus as

“Saraswati Puja”. It is usually celebrated every year in the month of February. This festival marks the beginning of the Holi festival and also the spring season. On this day, people worship the Goddess of knowledge, music, culture, i.e., Devi Saraswati.

• 3.2 Pongal / Makar Sankranti• In Tamil Nadu, 14th of January is celebrated every year as the Pongal Day. In many

part of India, this day is celebrated as Makar Sankranti. This festival is marked with prosperity and abundance. On this day, freshly harvested cereals and foods are cooked. On the day of Makar Sankaranti, people worship the Sun God.

IMPORTANCE

RAJEEV KUMAR

A.SYMBOL OF VICTORY:-

• Symbol of victory:-

.festival is an auspicious day or period of religious

.celebration prevalent in all societies and

religious communities.

B.OPPORTUNITY TO THE PEOPLE OF COMMUNITY TO MEET EACH OTHER:-

.The people celebrated these day as a reunion day.people spend these day with there families and friends.

. .BUILD SOCIAL RELATION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION :- C .UNITY AMONG THE PEOPLE.

. .FORGET INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM AND HELP TO EACH OTHER

D. OCCASION OF JOY:-

.ENJOY THESE FESTIVAL WITH A POSITIVE ENERGY.

.KIDS CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL SEASON AS DAY OF HOLIDAY.

.FESTIVAL HELP US TO PROMOT NATIONAL INTEGRATION.

.FUN WITH FAMILIES WHICH IS GREAT MENTAL RELAXATION.

E.PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE AND CUSTOMS:-

.THE PRESENT GENERATION KNOW ABOUT OUR CUSTOMS AND PRATICES DURING THESE FESTIVAL.

CHANDAN KUMAR SINGH

CULTURAL IMPORTANCE

• India is well known all over the world as a country of cultural and traditional festivals

• as it has many cultures and religions. One can enjoy the festival celebration in India every month.

• As it is a secular country full of diversity in the religions, languages, cultures and castes, it is always crowded with the people involved in the fairs and festivals celebration.

• People from each religion have their own cultural and traditional festivals.

• Some of the festivals are celebrated by the people of all religions in the entire nation.

• Each and every festival is celebrated uniquely in different ways according to the rituals, beliefs and its significant history behind.

• Each festival has its own history,legend and significance of celebration. Indian origin people in the abroad also celebrate their cultural festival with the immense passion.

• But later in our society, the relations grew complex and the festivals, on many occasions lost their folk traditions.

• However, in many regions such as north-eastern India, the festivals still show folk-characteristics and include folk dramas, folk-songs, folk-dances and the rituals associated with folk-beliefs.

• The regional festivals differ from one state to another. The manner in which they are observed and celebrated are also different.

• Celebrating festivals is a great way to teach your child about the Indian culture. Knowing more about why a festival is celebrated, what its significance is, and why did we start celebrating it in the first place, can help a child understand the importance and significance of each festival, and it can be a great way to impart values to the child as well.

• Tolerance for tradition: Remember how you tugged on your mom sleeve through the Diwali puja to let you go out and celebrate the real way – burst crackers with your friends and neighbors that is? But do you see yourself, following those very same rituals without skipping a beat now? Why do you think that is! Explaining the importance of each ritual and how it welcomes good fortune for the entire family, may not register with him/her just yet, but over the long run, once he/she is an adult, these are the very same rituals he/she will follow, thanks to you taking the time out to explain their significance (and it won’t be because you said it should be done)

• Regional and community fairs are also common and festive in India. For example, Pushkar fair is one of the world's largest markets and Sonepur mela is the largest livestock fair in Asia.

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE

SHASHIKANT PRASAD

1.Festivals &Agriculture

They occur around agricultural harvest times: • Dusshera,Pongal in TN –Rice Harvesting

• Rath Yatra –Jute in WB.

• Baisakhi and Ram Navami-Wheat Harvesting

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Boosting Tourism

• Boosts the local economy both on and off the festival site.

• Overnight visitors provide another source of off-site revenue

MARKETING• Free marketing and

advertising. • Facebook or other social

media.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

NIRANJAN DALAI

Unity in diversity means oneness in the varieties. India is a best country proving this concept for many years. India is a country where it is very clear to see unity in diversity because people of many religion, race, culture and tradition live together without affecting each others feelings and believes to their religion.

India is a country with example of unity in diversity as it contains people of various religions like Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and etc

It is a happy feature in Indian scenario that men and women of all religious communities share the pleasures of festivals of other communities. Some of the festivals are celebrated at national level whereas some of are at regional level.

Hindu priest feeding to a Muslim man.

Foreigners celebrating holi

OTHER FACE OF THE COIN

SHUBHAM ANAND

AIR POLLUTION

WATER POLLUTION

NOISE POLLUTION

LAND POLLUTION

WASTAGE

• FOOD WASTAGE

• WATER WASTAGE

BAD HABITS

• DRINKING

• GAMBLINGS

• PROVOKING PROCESSION

MASS SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS

CONCLUSION SHIVAM RAJ

The festivals make our life colourful and enthusiastic. They bring people together. They come every year to make us forget all ill-will and communal hatred the

festivals strengthen the feeling of oneness too people, without any malice, meet with one another

and wish for bright future.

• Festivals teach us to forget our enmity and embrace one another in a bond of love.

• Festivals brings us closer to our family.• The effects of festivals are very wholesome

for an individual and for the society.

SCIENCE BEHIND OUR FESTIVALS

FESTIVAL AND FOOD HABITS

MAKARSANKRANTI

THE AUSPICIOUS MONTH OF RAMZAN

• Provides tranquility of the heart and mind• Improves your blood fat levels• May help you overcome addictions• Promotes fat breakdown and weight loss

HOLI Colours play vital role in fitness of human body. Deficiency of a

particular colour could cause an ailment and can be cured when that colour element is supplemented either through diet or medicine. In ancient times, when people started playing Holi, the colours used by them were made from natural sources. The playful pouring and throwing of colour powders made from these natural sources has a healing effect on the human body. It has the effect of strengthening the ions in the body and adds health and beauty to it.

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