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Major Indian Festivals - Naag Panchmi (festival of snakes)

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Major Indian Festivals- Naag Panchami Nag Panchami-festival dedicated to snake worship Hinduism is aptly described as a way of living where respect is bestowed on all kinds of flora and fauna and inanimate objects of nature. Thus the Hindu religion followers find millions of deities in almost all kinds of animals and reptiles. Nag Panchami is such a festival celebrated in the honor of cobras. This festival falls in the month of the Hindu month of Sravan (Normally in July or August). People believe that giving milk to the serpents to drink is a great cause. That is the reason one can see lots of Saperas (the tribal people who keep the snakes) going door to door to beg and thronging outside the temples and  Taj Mahal Tour . Though sapera tradition is banned according to the law in India on account of wildlife Act and its provisions. Now it is strictly enforced by the law and by the authorities and thus it is divided to a large extent. A couple of years back the sape

Major Indian Festivals - Hariyali Teej festival of North India Tour

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  Major Indian Festival- Hariyali Teej India is primarily an agrarian economy, all festivals here are somewhere connected with agriculture, Monsoon brings rains, the rains flood the fields which are then prepared for the coming crop season, This season of rains also brings a change of season, from the scorching heat of the summer months when the temperatures rise to sweltering 40 degrees plus in the plains of North India Tour the weather cools down to be around 30 degrees Celsius.  The people rejoice, this festival is a women's festival when women folk celebrate and dance, mythological reference is also associated with this festival, all the Golden Triangle Tour with Indian states celebrate this festival-Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh. This festival is celebrated on the third day of the new moon. In Punjab every village has a place outside the village where the women folk gather and swings come up on the trunks of thick trees, This entire festival is a