makar sakranti


MAKAR SAKRANTI Makar sakranti A festival of joy and happiness for all people of all ages at this festival people fly kites. Makar Sakranti , the kite flying festival is spectacular. Everything closes down and the kites are flown from every roof top and street . The object is to bring down other's kites , attempting to the deafening cheers and loud music of huge crowds . the sky remains dotted with vivid splashes of colors , as kills in a variety of hues, shapes and sizes dart across the azure blue. The Sanskrit term "Shankramana" means "to start or to move". The day on which the sun begins to move northwards is called Makara Sankranti. This feast is celebrated on January 14th, and is the only feast of the Indian calendar which is not celebrated on a fixed day of the lunar month. At jaipur people enjoy flying kites all over the day long and on this day sweets specially made of "tils" called as "til ke ladooes" and also "finnnies". For the sun, symbolizing knowledge, wisdom and spiritual light, which receded from you when you reveled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and rushes towards you, to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance upon you and to infuse into you more life and energy.