Makar Sankranti Customs

Makar Sankranti is the most popular festival of north India, which is celebrated with pomp and zeal. Makar Sankranti Hindu festival is celebrated with religious fervor in almost all parts of India. The festival is celebrated to mark the beginning of the generous harvest season after few months of chilly winter.

Makar Sankranti festival falls on January 14, every year, as per the solar calendar. Both geographic and religious importances are connected with the festival. On this day, Sun begins to take a trip northwards, by leaving the Tropic of Cancer in order to enter the Tropic of Capricorn. Makar Sankranti custom is celebrated with pomp in southern parts of the country as Pongal, and in Punjab is celebrated as Lohri & Maghi. Rajasthan & Gujarati not only look respectfully up to the sun, but also offer thousands of their colorful oblations in the form of beautiful kites all over the skyline.

Makar Sankranti Traditions

Makar Sankranti is celebrated by the people of the Hindu religion throughout India. It always holds an important and special place in the mind and soul of this people. The day of Makar Sankranti is popularly known by different names in different places of India.

The devotees in the Indo Gangetic plain begins this day by taking holy dips in the holy waters of river Ganges. They also offer water to the Sun God during their holy bath. The devotees believe that dip in the holy will purify them from their sins bestow them punya. Besides, the priests and the devotees also offer special pujas to the Sun God to please them so that bless them with good harvest.