How to Celebrate Lohri

Lohri, essentially the harvest festival of the land of Punjab is now celebrated with much gusto and fanfare throughout India. Here’s how you can celebrate Lohri.

 

Lohri is essentially a North Indian festival encompassing Himachal Pradesh and Haryana; it is the primary harvest festival of the land of Punjab. It is a very exciting festival that is celebrated with utmost cheerfulness and grandeur. It basically marks the end of the cold winters that are colourless and depressing and welcomes the season of fruitfulness, spring and the New Year.

The night of Lohri is believed to the longest night of the year, post which the days begin to turn longer and the nights become shorter. As the sun moves towards the north, it is called Uttarayan which takes place after a prolonged autumn or winter which was the Dakshinayan. As the sun makes its transition from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer, people celebrate Lohri as a festival of the Sun God and Fire.