Festivals

Vata Savitri Pooja During Lockdown – MethodThis is how we celebrated Vata Savitri Pooja, this year during lockdown:We took a branch from the last year’s potted plant of Vata or banyan. The branch can be transplanted into a pot or a glass of water. This time we decorated the branch ...

Vata Savitri During LockdownYou might be wondering, why we are posting about this Pooja more than a week after the day. A friend of mine told me that she could not perform the Vata Savitri Pooja During Lockdown. So, she had just prayed for the wellbeing of her family in ...

Hinduism boasts of several vratas. One of the significant ones is the Pradosha vrata, which absolves all sins, Karmic or otherwise. A Journalist Reveals decided to explore this vrata, during Mahashivaratri 2020.Mahashivaratri 2020The triyodashi and chaturdashi, before Mahashivaratri, are very significant. The terrible poison, Aalakala visha appeared on Shani Pradosha ...

Every year, at specific times, festivals are celebrated. Other than the more popular ones like Navaratri and Diwali, there are some that need some more austerity than most people have. One of them is the Lakshmi Poojan celebrated beginning the Margashirsha in the waxing quarter of the month.Lakshmi PoojanThere are ...

Ratha Saptami falls on Magha Shukla paksha Saptami. It also denotes the end of the Makara Sankaranti celebrations, including the distribution of the auspicious sesame seeds, to fellow devotees. This article is all about how we celebrated Ratha Saptami 2020.Ratha SaptamiMythology has it that on this day, Surya or the ...

Last Sunday, the entire nation celebrated Republic Day 2020. We, also, celebrated it on a small scale at home. Thus, I am sharing the report of the celebrations in this post – Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara. Jhanda Ooncha Rahe HamaraThe song Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara… was written by Shyamlal Gupta ...

The end of Chatur Masya is signified by Devottana Ekadashi when Lord Mahavishnu wakes up after a 4-month period of yoga nidra. The next day, i.e. Utthana Dwadashi, commemorates Tulsi Vivaha when ages ago Lord Krishna wedded Tulsi. Tulsi Vivaha On Devottana Ekadashi, Tulsi plant is readied with an amla ...

We have been offline for a few months now because of various reasons. Finally, we have been able to sort most of them and here we are with – the importance of Kartigai month. We thought that this would be an auspicious restart to our website. Importance of Kartigai Month ...

India is steadily moving toward an eco-friendly Ganeshotsav, in the real sense. Many people have adopted bio-degradable stuff in a big way during the decoration during these celebrations. Subhashchandra Sakroji and his family are one of them. Sakroji Uncle used to live in the same building as we did before ...

We had placed the Golu at home during Navaratri and we decided not to dismantle the metal steps since it is a little cumbersome. Come Diwali, we placed the idols on the steps and celebrated the Diwali in Navaratri-Style. We also thought that this could be a new way of ...