Define Festivals and write as Introduction (01 Paragraph)
*Major festivals of Kerala
*Major festivals of Himachal Pradesh
*Way of Celebration in Kerala
*Way of Celebration in Himachal Pradesh
*Influence on Social Life in Kerala
*Influence on Social Life in Himachal Pradesh
*Conclusion- How do the celebrations strengthen the spirit of ONE INDIA.
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festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship.[1] Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.
Village Feast. Facsimile of a woodcut of the Sandrin ou Verd Galant, facetious work end of 16th century (edition of 1609)
Procession in Honor of Isis depiction of the Egyptian Navigium Isidis festival by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1903)
Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they're called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entertainment. Festivals that focus on cultural or ethnic topics also seek to inform community members of their traditions; the involvement of elders sharing stories and experience provides a means for unity among families.
In Ancient Greece and Rome, festivals such as the Saturnalia were closely associated with social organisation and political processes as well as religion.[2][3][4] In modern times, festivals may be attended by strangers such as tourists, who are attracted to some of the more eccentric or historical ones. The Philippines is one example of a modern society with many festivals, as each day of the year has at least one specific celebration. There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the country, most of which are specific to the barangay (village) level.[5]
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*Onam
*kullu Dussehra
*The Maha Shivarathri is essentially a religious festival unlike Onam and Thiruvathira. ... In Kerala the Malayalam month of kumbham is noted for the Sivarathri festival which falls in February-March. There is no other place in Kerala where Sivarathiri is celebrated on such a grand scale as in Aluva.
*Nati (dance), food, music, rituals, folk flavour of the festivity, dancing