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Show Name :- 'Makar Sankranti’
Channel Name :- Discovery
Launch Date :- 14 January 2016
Time:- 09.00pm
Genre :- Festive Special
India’s relationship with the sun is as deep as it is ancient. A nation built on its endless fields of grain, the sun, and its relationship with the soil, has always been crucial to the prosperity of its people.
There are so many festivals celebrating this relationship and all happen to be at the Harvest Time. But India is India. And this festival is celebrated in completely different ways in different parts of the country.
We celebrate Lohri with the Punjabis in Amritsar, with its singing and dancing, kite-flying, and great big celebrations around great big bonfires at night, followed by a morning of serenity at the Golden Temple, and divinity at the Durgayana Temple, to mark Maghi, the start of a new month and a new year.
We celebrate Pongal with the Tamils, with its sugarcane, pots of boiling milk, delicious Pongal, exciting Bull-fights, and fascinating rituals. And we celebrate Uttarayan with Gujarat, gorging on delicious sweets, and Undhiyu, flying kites once again, and witnessing, how a Gujarati celebrates the season. But wherever we go, whatever be be the language & the rituals, the season they celebrate is the same.
It’s Makar Sankranti, a transition of the Sun, and the herald of Spring and Summer.
Channel Name :- Discovery
Launch Date :- 14 January 2016
Time:- 09.00pm
Genre :- Festive Special
India’s relationship with the sun is as deep as it is ancient. A nation built on its endless fields of grain, the sun, and its relationship with the soil, has always been crucial to the prosperity of its people.
There are so many festivals celebrating this relationship and all happen to be at the Harvest Time. But India is India. And this festival is celebrated in completely different ways in different parts of the country.
We celebrate Lohri with the Punjabis in Amritsar, with its singing and dancing, kite-flying, and great big celebrations around great big bonfires at night, followed by a morning of serenity at the Golden Temple, and divinity at the Durgayana Temple, to mark Maghi, the start of a new month and a new year.
We celebrate Pongal with the Tamils, with its sugarcane, pots of boiling milk, delicious Pongal, exciting Bull-fights, and fascinating rituals. And we celebrate Uttarayan with Gujarat, gorging on delicious sweets, and Undhiyu, flying kites once again, and witnessing, how a Gujarati celebrates the season. But wherever we go, whatever be be the language & the rituals, the season they celebrate is the same.
It’s Makar Sankranti, a transition of the Sun, and the herald of Spring and Summer.
