| Festivals in Ludhiana |
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Ludhiana is a city of fun and felicity where all the festivals are colorful and enjoyable. There are chiefly 7 festivals starting from Baishakhi that is being celebrated in the new year’s day of Punjab – 13 April. Although the date is generally fixed but once in the last 36 years it fell on the 14th day of April. In the year 1699 on this particular day, the tenth Sikh Guru – Guru Govind Singh founded the Khalsa – the Sikh Brotherhood. This is a festival when Ludhiana and then rest of the Punjab keeps bouncing with joy and music. Basant is another festival that is celebrated when the winter tends to part off – during the months of January and February. It is during this period when the weather seems to get softer as the harshness of the cold tends to go off let the mustard fields turning yellow. Holi is the festival of color, when almost every corner of India gets adorned with the multicolored shades and tuned in the tone of aesthetic exuberance. This festival is not only associated with the eternal love of Lord Krishna and Radha, but it is also a mean to celebrate good harvest. Diwali is a festival to celebrate the victory of righteousness. It is celebrated with lights and crackers as to deliver a welcome note for the Hindu New Year. This festival is also a mean to celebrate the destruction of Bali by Vishnu. Finaly, there are two more major festivals – the Gurpurbs and Lohri. Gurpurbs are the birth or death anniversaries of the Sikh Gurus, of which the most significant are birthdays of Guru Goving singh and Guru Nanak and the martyrdom days of Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Arjun Dev. Lohri is another auspicious festival where the people worship fires. |