fathiamar
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Post by fathiamar on Mar 12, 2007 4:38:35 GMT -6
Any of you guys watched the movie "water"?? Its hindi. Well it's releasing in India today.I'll definitely make it a point to watch it when I get the time. Did you watch it?What's your take on it? Whoho..The movie is great..Watch it if u got the time..So so great..I cant stop thinking bout it.. Its about a 13 yrs old gal who is a widow. And it was on gandhi time. And if you actually read about gandhi..Got a gal that always with him, the one that he considers his daughter..And this is about that gal.. Great. And the language...was just perfect..I love hindi. So sexy.
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Post by AK on Mar 12, 2007 5:46:17 GMT -6
ahh, ok! got you thank you guys for explaining karma for you Good.Thanks for the karma! To Zach & Noor - Great to see you're so excited. Tell us about your cultures too!
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Post by darkme on Mar 15, 2007 15:44:31 GMT -6
a new thread shud be made, right? ;D
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Post by Zach on Mar 15, 2007 22:11:15 GMT -6
lol yeppers
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Post by AK on Mar 16, 2007 4:17:56 GMT -6
a new thread shud be made, right? ;D Yes of course!Come on Noor...you and Huda go ahead and tell us about your culture! Why don't you do the honors of creating a new thread?
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Post by darkme on Mar 16, 2007 8:20:51 GMT -6
yes, I am going to. ;D
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Post by AK on Apr 14, 2007 3:29:02 GMT -6
Okay, another thing from India!Today is Baisakhi, so here's wishing a very Happy Baisakhi to everyone!
Now you'll ask what exactly is Baisakhi, so let me tell you that I'll tell you all about it tomorrow (when I'll get some free time).
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Post by darkme on Apr 14, 2007 4:53:43 GMT -6
here's wishing u a very very happy Biasakhi! have fuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
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Post by alyssamilanofan on Apr 14, 2007 14:09:27 GMT -6
happy Biasakhi!
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Post by Zach on Apr 14, 2007 19:39:27 GMT -6
[glow=red,2,300]HAPPY Baisakhi![/glow]
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Post by AK on Apr 15, 2007 10:03:55 GMT -6
Well firstly, thank you all you guys!You people must be thinking that they have festivals in India almost every month! Now let me tell you about Baisakhi.This festival basically marks the New Year in Punjab (India) and Nepal as well. In India, the day of Baisakhi is celebrated as a harvest festival.The beginning of the harvest season is marked by this day and crops are harvested and the farmers get together to celebrate and enjoy the fruits of their hard work. Apart from the New Year and beginning of the harvest season, this festival has religious significance for people of the Sikh religion. Check this link for complete and better details about Baisakhi festival - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaisakhiNow I'll tell you how me and my family generally celebrate this day - We usually get together at my grandparents' house and spend the entire day there. The older people go to the gurudwara, offer their prayers and listen to hymns for sometime.On this day, special food and sweets are cooked and distributed among the devotees at the gurudwara. Sometimes, we young people too accompany our family to the gurudwara. We also cook special traditional food at home, like poories (sort of pancakes) and channa (grams) and a sweet dish called "halwa" (it's really delicious!). When we were kids, I remember we used to listen and dance to folk music till late at night!All the family members would get together and tell the stories and legends surrounding this festival and their own experiences of celebrating it. At some places, special fairs and community celebrations are organised on this day. And I remember, we'd love going to the fairs! It used to be a great holiday.Eating those special foods, drinking lassi (sweetened butter milk), getting together, playing games, listening & dancing to music, having fun at fairs, just being with the family...it was all so fun! But who gets time to celebrate these days?This year, we only called up every one in the family and wished them, watched some special programmes on TV and ordered a pizza!Nothing as special as it used to be... How times change...but anyway, its fun to have so many festivals!We get holidays from school, so it's great! Ask me, if you want to know more about the festival. Oh and yeah!All the temples (gurudwaras) are beautifully illuminated and decorated on this day.You have to see the illuminations at night!It sure is a heavenly sight! When we go the temples, even we light up lamps and candles there and make our wishes for the new year. See this photo of a lady lighting lamps at the Golden Temple (the temple I showed you earlier in this thread) www.flickr.com/photos/raminder/128836026/See the Golden Temple fully illuminated at night.I bet you'll love it! www.flickr.com/photos/raminder/128848757/This was just about how Baisakhi is celebrated in my community and region.If you want to know how this day is celebrated in other different states of India and other countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka, then please check out the Wikipedia link I have given at the top.Thanks!
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Post by darkme on Apr 15, 2007 12:17:27 GMT -6
what a cool festival if u ask me! I love it... I'll cum after an axact year so that I'd get 2 see these things.... they just rock! and the pics r too good! karma 4 AA! very good job explaining
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Post by nairobian on Apr 15, 2007 12:44:44 GMT -6
Wow.. These thread are amazing! me and my stupid computer, hehe, misplacing urls..
Anyways, AK you've done an amazing job explaining!
Ohh in our state (Karnataka) we don't have Baisakhi, our new year is Ugadi, which, I believe was about a month ago.
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Post by Zach on Apr 15, 2007 13:20:11 GMT -6
Whoaa Anu! Great Post! Very Interesting. I'll add this thread as the "Thread(Board?) of the week". Thanks A Bunch
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Post by AK on Apr 15, 2007 23:53:43 GMT -6
what a cool festival if u ask me! I love it... I'll cum after an axact year so that I'd get 2 see these things.... they just rock! and the pics r too good! karma 4 AA! very good job explaining Thanks Noor!Glad to know you liked it.Yes it's rocking.Thanks for the karma. That's the least I can do. As I always say, you'll really like India when you visit it.Tell me when you plan to come, I'll personally come to receive you!
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Post by AK on Apr 15, 2007 23:56:19 GMT -6
Wow.. These thread are amazing! me and my stupid computer, hehe, misplacing urls.. Anyways, AK you've done an amazing job explaining! Ohh in our state (Karnataka) we don't have Baisakhi, our new year is Ugadi, which, I believe was about a month ago. Good to see you back here after such a long time!Thanks for your comments! Yeah you guys celebrated Ugadi last month. I saw the celebrations on TV. It was I think in the first or second week of March.Why don't you tell all of us here about Ugadi?
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Post by AK on Apr 16, 2007 0:01:46 GMT -6
Whoaa Anu! Great Post! Very Interesting. I'll add this thread as the "Thread(Board?) of the week". Thanks A Bunch Thanks a lot Zach!It looks great on the website.Good to know you guys liked it. We have many festivals in different parts of India.Last month or I think last week, people of the state of Kerala celebrated the Elephant festival. If I can manage, then I'll try to find out and post details about that too.That is the uniqueness of India - every state, every tribe, every clan has its own unique culture and heritage. Like on the 13-14th of April, people in my state celebrated Baisakhi whereas on the same days people in Kerala, Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu celebrated their own festivals which signified the onset of new year and beginning of the harvest season. Diversity in India is nothing short of amazing.
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Post by Zach on Apr 16, 2007 7:44:53 GMT -6
Sure thing! I look forward to reading more information on the great diversity of India!
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Post by darkme on Apr 16, 2007 12:26:04 GMT -6
2 AA: of course I will... might take a lil bit of time tho 2 nairobian: gr8888 seeing ya bak
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Post by nairobian on Apr 21, 2007 18:34:53 GMT -6
Wow.. These thread are amazing! me and my stupid computer, hehe, misplacing urls.. Anyways, AK you've done an amazing job explaining! Ohh in our state (Karnataka) we don't have Baisakhi, our new year is Ugadi, which, I believe was about a month ago. Good to see you back here after such a long time!Thanks for your comments! Yeah you guys celebrated Ugadi last month. I saw the celebrations on TV. It was I think in the first or second week of March.Why don't you tell all of us here about Ugadi? Yeah.. Well actually, I'm not entirely sure how things go in India because I've only been there once during Ugadi. Actually, Ugadi is our New Year, which is celebrated on the first day of the month of Chaitra in the Hindu calendar. This year, we celebrated the New Year for the year 2064 (amazing, isn't it? ) It is celebrated in 3 states: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The time I was in India, everyone was dressing up in new clothes (because we normally buy/are gifted new clothes on special festivals) and our family all went to one person's house. There, we were served the usual meal for festivals: a very heavy rice item, in most cases Bisibelebath (which literally means hot lentil rice), a sweet item called paisa/kheer, which is made from milk and sweet and semolina, but there are different kinds. There is also a dish called sambar, which is basically veggies in watery gravy, and is eaten mixed with plain rice. And at the end, before dessert, we have rice mixed with buttermilk (yogurt/curds) My mother makes a sweet called Holige or obbat in my language, and is called puranpoli in Marathi. It is basically bread with sweet filling, and is really tasty My family, here in Canada, has a very informal celebration because of time issues and the horrid, horrid snow. However, I'm sure anyone in Karnataka can explain the more traditional way of celebrating.
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