With the celebrations and excitements of welcoming the New Year 2017, the country gears up to celebrate the first major festival of the year, Lohri. However, the exchanges of text greetings and the circulation of messages and wishes in the social media had started from a month ahead of the festival. Believed to bring good luck, prosperity and happiness in people’s life, the ‘harvest festival’, bringing the greatest moments of joy to people from Punjab and Haryana, is also celebrated in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other north Indian states.
Traditionally associated with the harvest of the Rabi crops, Lohri marks the last of the coldest day of winter in the North Indian states. Cheered up in a festive mood, on the day of Lohri and even a day before, people gather around huge bonfires, throwing sweets, pop-corns and puffed rice into the flame. Mostly in Punjab and Haryana, people move around the flame of the bonfire, singing and dancing in the beats of ‘dhol’. In parts of Punjab the celebration also associates kit-flying, with countless colorful kites beautifying the sky.
Here are some of the best moments of this year’s Lohri celebrations in the country:
#WATCH: Harbhajan Singh celebrates #Lohri with family in Jalandhar, indulges in festivities. pic.twitter.com/fkU8g3Rw7S
— ANI (@ANI_news) January 13, 2017
And alike many other festivals of the country, Lohri reconnects people with their friends, relatives and family members, bringing floods of joy, love and happiness among all.