Monday 29 August 2011

Festival flavours of India

India is a country which has a deep rooted relation with its religions. Home to some of the major religions of world like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, people of India celebrate every festival of all the religions with full of joy and enthusiasm. With this diverse population of various religion and its related occasions always have something to celebrate all around the year. These festivals reflect the life styles and traditions followed by the people of this great nation.

Some festivals like Pongal, Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja are region specific while some of the festivals like Diwali, Holi, Christmas and Id-ul-Fitr are celebrated all over India.Among these festivals Diwali and Holi are already world famous and needs no description to define their magnitude of its celebration.
In today’s world when everything is moving fast and people have limited time to spare, these festivals gives us the much needed time to relax and spend some quality time with friends and family which is hard to come by during normal days of the year.

Sweets and exquisite dishes are integral part of festivals in India.'Sweets' or 'mithai' are very special for any Indian festival.Without this delicacies no festival is complete.These sweets and exquisite dishes tempts everyone's taste buds.Be it Gajar ka Halwa, jalebi prepared during the diwali or malpua made during the makar sankranti.



Thus, festivals in India offers a mixed bag experience of joy, fun, togetherness and off course sweets..