Sindhi and Punjabi community is preparing to celebrate the festival of Lohri or Lal Loi will be celebrated on Saturday, January 13, 2024.
The communities will form bonfire using cow dung cakes instead of wood to control deforestation.
Lohri holds special significance especially for Sikhs and Punjabis. Children have begun preparations for Lohri.
Traditionally, they collected wood along with traditional food. In current times in Indore, children are preparing games, outfits, menu lists and music playlists.
Nuts, sesame, rewdis, groundnut, jaggery, chickpeas, corn, spinach, etc. will be the main ingredients in delicacies prepared for the day.
In the evening on the day of Lohri, people will gather and start a bonfire. On this auspicious occasion, people are practising traditional songs that will be sung as ‘Mangal’ songs.
People from both the communities will walk around the bonfire, pray, sing and dance. Along with this, rewdi, groundnut, kheer, maize grains are offered to the bonfire, shared Devender Singh Gandhi, representative from Sikh community.
“Special congratulations are given to the house in which a new marriage or child has taken place and after whose marriage the first Lohri or the first Lohri of the child takes place,” Gandhi said. He added that the newly married couple walk around the fire and pray for happiness for their coming life and get blessings by touching the feet of elders.
Anil Aaga from Sindhi community said, "It is of prime importance that we celebrate festivals in a way that it doesn't affect our mother earth negatively."
Celebrations will be seen all across the city in majorly dominated Sikh and Sindhi areas including Sikh Mohalla, Manik Bagh, Sindhi Colony and in townships.
The communities will form bonfire using cow dung cakes instead of wood to control deforestation.
Lohri holds special significance especially for Sikhs and Punjabis. Children have begun preparations for Lohri.
Traditionally, they collected wood along with traditional food. In current times in Indore, children are preparing games, outfits, menu lists and music playlists.
Nuts, sesame, rewdis, groundnut, jaggery, chickpeas, corn, spinach, etc. will be the main ingredients in delicacies prepared for the day.
In the evening on the day of Lohri, people will gather and start a bonfire. On this auspicious occasion, people are practising traditional songs that will be sung as ‘Mangal’ songs.
People from both the communities will walk around the bonfire, pray, sing and dance. Along with this, rewdi, groundnut, kheer, maize grains are offered to the bonfire, shared Devender Singh Gandhi, representative from Sikh community.
“Special congratulations are given to the house in which a new marriage or child has taken place and after whose marriage the first Lohri or the first Lohri of the child takes place,” Gandhi said. He added that the newly married couple walk around the fire and pray for happiness for their coming life and get blessings by touching the feet of elders.
Anil Aaga from Sindhi community said, "It is of prime importance that we celebrate festivals in a way that it doesn't affect our mother earth negatively."
Celebrations will be seen all across the city in majorly dominated Sikh and Sindhi areas including Sikh Mohalla, Manik Bagh, Sindhi Colony and in townships.