Tag: sankranti

  • Pongal Festival History, Significance and Traditions

    The festival of Pongal is celebrated mainly in Southern India and is a parallel to the more widely celebrated occasion of Makar Sankranti (January 14th). Pongal is usually celebrated over a span of four days with great fervor and is connected to the harvest, the sun, the end of winter and many more traditional events…

  • Celebrating Makar Sankranti

    Makar Sankranti is observed on the 14th of January every year and is (incorrectly) thought to coincide the astronomical event of the northward motion of the sun (uttarayana) from the tropic of capricorn towards the tropic of cancer. In India, it also marks the end of winter and the onset of spring and the progression…

  • Makar Sankranti 2011

    Happy Makar Sankranti (January 14th) to all our readers. We hope that you are celebrating with friends and family. If you aren’t with family or friends, we hope you can celebrate online with us and elsewhere on the Internet. As I was contemplating the meaning of uttarayan and the significance of this day, this thought…