Celebrate and resp like
Festivals in
India
are part of everyday life. Every month there is celebrated, honoured, sung and danced. Regularly the streets are also stage of festivities.
Diwali, feast of the light. After the monsoon rains, which have washed the color of the mud houses, it is time for the big cleaning, a new coat of paint and lights. For five days, the country has been shrouded in candlelight. The butter lights penetrate deep into the Indian jungle, to start the start of the new year full of light. That doesn't mean the rest of the year will pass quietly.
The seven-day Ganesh Chaturthi, which celebrates the birth of elephant god Ganesha, concludes with long parades in which thousands of Ganesha statues are carried by Mumbai to the sea and disappear into the waves.
The smaller and lesser known parties are at least as impressive. Like the many temple festivals where elephants, accompanied by drummers in procession, parade through towns and villages in southern India(Kerala).
Holi is celebrated throughout the country, there is no escaping this festival. The beginning of spring and the new year get color in the month of March with the festival, where people sprinkle each other with dye. For two days, coloured powder drifts through the air and the whole of India dances on the streets. Those who venture outside are guaranteed to end up as colourful as the country itself. Happy new year! Shubh Holi!