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Hindu
17 Apr 2021

त्रिशूर पूरम नाम का यह हिंदू त्यौहार हर साल केरल में आयोजित किया जाता है।

pत्रिशूर पूरम में भाग लेने के लिए विभिन्न जिलों के लोग इस त्यौहार में शामिल होते हैं।/p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

Holi: The Colorful Festival of Love and Spring

pThere's a moment during Holi when chaos transforms into something transcendent. You're surrounded by strangers smearing colored powder on your face, water balloons exploding around you, the air thick with rainbow dust catching sunlight, creating halos around everyone. A child throws pink powder at an elderly man who retaliates with green. A CEO and his driver are indistinguishable under layers of color. For a few hours, social hierarchies dissolve, grudges evaporate, and the entire country becomes a canvas for joy./p pHoli is India's most exuberant festival—a celebration that looks like madness to outsiders and feels like liberation to participants. It's the festival where restraint dies, where grown adults act like children, where touching strangers is encouraged, where getting completely filthy is the entire point. But beneath the colorful chaos lies profound meaning: the triumph of good over evil, the arrival of spring, the burning of ego, the renewal of relationships, and the divine love between Krishna and Radha./p pTo understand Holi is to understand something essential about Indian culture—the ability to find profound spirituality in riotous celebration, to see the sacred in play, and to recognize that sometimes the path to the divine runs through absolute, uninhibited, color-splattered joy./p The Origins: Mythology, History, and Multiple Meanings pHoli's origins weave through multiple Hindu mythological narratives, each adding layers to the festival's significance:/p The Story of Holika and Prahlad pThe most prominent legend explains the bonfire that precedes Holi's color celebration:/p pHiranyakashipu, a demon king blessed with near-immortality, became so powerful and arrogant he demanded worship as a god. His son Prahlad remained devoted to Lord Vishnu despite his father's fury. Hiranyakashipu's attempts to kill Prahlad failed repeatedly—poison didn't affect him, elephants refused to trample him, snakes wouldn't bite him./p pFinally, Hiranyakashipu enlisted his sister Holika, who possessed a magical shawl making her immune to fire. She carried Prahlad into a blazing pyre, intending to burn him alive while remaining safe herself. But divine justice intervened—the shawl flew from Holika to protect Prahlad, and she burned while he emerged unscathed./p pVishnu then appeared as Narasimha (half-man, half-lion) and killed Hiranyakashipu, upholding dharma and protecting his devotee./p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

चैत्र और शारदीय नवरात्रि पूरे देश में बड़ी श्रद्धा के साथ मनाई जाती है।

pनवरात्रि के दौरान पूरे नौ दिनों तक हर तरफ भक्ति का माहौल रहता है।/p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

उदयपुर का मेवाड़ महोत्सव राजस्थान का एक प्रमुख त्योहार है और अपनी जीवंतता के लिए पूरे भारत में प्रसिद्ध है।

pमेवाड़ महोत्सव उदयपुर में पूरे उत्साह और समर्पण के साथ वसंत ऋतु के आगमन का स्वागत करने के लिए मनाया जाता है।/p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा में स्थापित ताज महोत्सव मनाया जाता है।

pआगरा शहर प्रेम का शाश्वत प्रतीक है जो अपनी विरासत के लिए और प्रेम की भव्यता के लिए माना जाता है। /p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

हिन्दू पंचांग के अनुसार धनतेरस का पर्व कृष्ण पक्ष की त्रयोदशी को मनाया जाता है।

pयह पांच दिवसीय लंबे दिवाली त्योहार का पहला दिन है। तीन दिनों तक चलने वाला गोत्रीरात्र व्रत भी धनतेरस से ही शुरू हो जाता है। धन तेरस का अर्थ है धन के तार।/p

Hindu
17 Apr 2021

Diwali Around the World: How the Festival of Lights is Celebrated

div div pWhen autumn arrives and darkness comes earlier each evening, millions of people across the globe prepare to celebrate light's triumph over darkness. Diwali—also known as Deepavali—transforms homes, temples, streets, and entire cities into glowing celebrations that illuminate not just physical spaces but also the human spirit. What began as an ancient Hindu festival in the Indian subcontinent has evolved into a global celebration embraced by diverse communities, adapted to different cultures, and recognized in countries far from its origins./p /div /div div div pThis is the story of how Diwali has traveled from its roots to become one of the world's most widely celebrated festivals, how different communities interpret and observe it, and how a 2,500-year-old tradition continues to evolve while maintaining its essential message—that light, goodness, and knowledge will ultimately prevail over darkness, evil, and ignorance./p /div /div div div /div /div