The Holy Festival Durga Puja And Its Celebration

      The holy festival Durga Puja is also known as Dorgothsab is celebrated with full of joy and enthusiasm in whole India and and is specially famous in North and East India. It is the main festival of Bengali's in West Bengal. Except West Bengal, in Delhi, Maharastra, Tripura, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Chennai and also at other places it celebrates fully. It Is a 5 days festival, where Ma Durga, the goddess of power, also known as Sakti is worshiped. The festival starts from the day Maha Sasthi, Then serially comes the days Maha Saptami, Maha Astami, Maha Nabami and finally Maha dasami, the last day of this festival ends with  immersion of Ma Durga. The date of Duyrga puja generally decided according to the bengali calander which generally held between the months September and October.






GoodLightscraps.com
        There is a mythology behind this worship as it is said that at the time of rescuing Sita from the demon king ravana, King Ram worshiped  ma Durga as to get her blessing to get win against Ravana in the war. This is also known as 'Akalbodhan'. Another one is that Ma Durga waas been permitted to meet with her mother only nine days in a year and so her return to her mother for nine days is celebrated by worshiping as Durga Puja.

GoodLightscraps.com

       Some households also organize this puja at home and it becomes a family get together and for enjoyment, stage performance, such as dancing, drama, Jatra- all these use to be happened. They cooked various dishes and also maintain carefully all the rituals that to do for this puja. They generally make or buy ek chala idol for worshiping. Beside of it, apart from this traditional way, baroari puja that is where a puja use to be organized by people of that area by collecting money which known as chanda, donetion. Here Mandaps (pandel) are made by following various themes. Some make pandels as like Taj Mahal, by copying  various palaces belongs to Rajasthan, Gujrat etc. Some also make their pandels on the basis of such kkinds of themes and the idol of Ma Durga also is made on the basis of that theme. In Kolkata Kumartuli is famous for making idols. So at this time and also from the prior to this puja the potters have a busy schedule in making these idols.






GoodLightscraps.com
       The whole kolkata and also the other areas of West Bengal are decorated with various types of lights and Mandaps. People use to wear new dresses on this occasion, and it is a main characterristic of Kolkata puja that a huge people gather on these five days to see the pratimas (idols), pandels, lightnings etc. To maintain the huge crowd police and volunteer camps organized by many institution are enforced by government and private organizations. People enjoy to see all these over the night and special trains and transport systems are also use to be available on these days. People generally visits pandels by walking for hours and hours. Restaurants specially prepares bengai dishes and also prepares their own special items, they also use to open it over the night and people also enjoy eating food at those places. They play songs, arrange stage programmes, quiz, contests etc and tv channels also cover news from different places and they alos organize so many contest with attractive prizes. So many travel agencies oraganize citty tours for the individuals to visit famous pandels and idol of Ma Durga with reasonable price. Lastly On Maha Dasami the festival ends with immersion of Ma Durga which is called 'Visharjan' and people meet together to wish Happy Bijaya Dasami with sweets either by going to their relatives' home or through telephone and internet.






GoodLightscraps.com
       Generally this festival brings joy and hapiness alsong with it and people also forget all their works, their busy life and tiredness and come forward to enjoy. People get freshness from their busy and boring schedule and get relaxed and this festival also brings a good business for the businessmen. On these days all individuals come out to enjoy whether they are Hindu or not but they come forward to make a happy and joyous environment.







GoodLightscraps.com    Get Durha Puja SMS here Get more information on Durga Puja Festival here  

Eid- Ul- Fitr - The Holy Religious Festival Of Islam

Eid - The holy religious festival of Islam is celebrated by all the muslim people through out the world with great joy and enthusiasm. Eid is the small version of the Arabic word 'Eid- Ul -Fitr' where the word 'Eid' denotes the meaning festivity and 'Fitr' denotes the meaning Purify. So heer it signifies that it is the symbol of purification after one month long fasting in the month of Ramzan (Ramadan)and the beginning of Shawwal - the tenth month of Islammic calender.





Eid Greetings

Best Orkut Scraps Collection

For muslims, Eid is a day of thanks giving. On this very, in the morning, before sunrise, people takes sweets as breakfast and after taking bath they wear new clothes. On Eid muslims generally give thanks to Allah in the way of distributing alms among the poor people and then they gather for a special congregational prayer hold in mosques or in big stadiums or any other open places. On this day people also give gifts to children and to their beloved one. Eid ul-Fitr is the first of two holidays in Islam. The second holiday is known as Eid- Ul- Fitr which is on 10th day of Thul Hijjah, the 12th month of Islamic calender, occures at the time of Hajj.





Eid Mubarak

Best Orkut Scraps Collection

After the prayer on this very peoples go to their relatives or closed ones house or make phone calls to the distant relatives and others to wish them. This activity continues for three days and this day counts as a holiday in many countries.





Eid Mubarak

Best Orkut Greetings "Eid of sacrifice, & commitment 2 allahs orders, May Allah bless us with the same in all circles of life, & help all amongst us, who r helpless, worried, & waiting 4 his rehmat, Ameen. Eid Mubarak.  Click here to get beatiful Eid Text Messages                                                                                                Get cool Eid Mubarak SMS here                                                                                      

Ganesh Chaturthi - The Divine Festival In India

Ganesh Chaturthi which is also known as 'Vinayaka Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavithi' is a holy and one of the main festival in India and for Hindus. Ganesha , son of Lord Shiva and Parvatti is worshiped in this occasion. This festival is held on the month Bhadra,( mid August- September) shukla chaturthi (fourth day of the waxing moon period) on his birthday. This festival lasts for 10 day and end on Anant Chaturdasi ( on the 14th day of the waxing moon.).





GoodLightscraps.com
In India, specially in Maharastra, Pune, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa celebrates this festival with great joy and it is considered as their main festival. And outside India,  in Srilanka and Nepal it is widely celebrated.
      



GoodLightscraps.com
In India, Three or Fourth months before of Ganesh Chaturthi, clay models with various poses of Shri Ganesh are made and are decorated beautifully and it is usually vary 3/4th of an inch to 25 feet in size. People use to decorate thier houses with flower garland and artificial lights. They bring  shri Ganesh's statue in home to worship or mandapas ( pandals) are made in the locality by collecting money from individuals, clubs, communities etc and decorate pandals by flower garland or other accessories or by ancient or modern themes. The priest generally clad in red shawl dhoti and shawl and then invokes life by chanting mantras into the idol. This ritual is known as 'Pranapratishhtha'. After this another ritual begins which is known as 'Shhodashopachara' ( 16 ways of paying tribute). Then Lord Ganesha is worshiped with coconut, jagery, 21 modakas, 21 durva (trefoil), blades of grass and red flowers. A type of red ointment which is made by Kumkum and sandelpaste is applied on the statue.The priest chants Ganesh stotra from Narada Purana,  Ganapati Atharva Shirsha Upanishad and Vediv ymns from Rig Veda thorughout the ceremony. Beside of it cultural programes are organized and many people use to participate in it and enjoy fully.







GoodLightscraps.com
After 10 days of celebration, finally the statue is taken for immersion (visharjan). many people joined in the procession of immersion of Lord Ganesha on the street by dancing, singing, and people use to shout by saying "Ganapati Bappa Morya, Pudhachya Varsi Laukar ya" that means Lord Ganesha come on next year quickly. They generally immersed statue in the river or sea symbolizing a ritual see-off to Kailash by taking away misfortune of his devotees.






GoodLightscraps.com
Lord Ganesha is the lord of peace, prosperity and good fortune. He is worshiped in prior to any pray, before any kind of worship is started and before any auspicious work to start.





GoodLightscraps.com Get here more Ganesh Chaturhi Message
You can also get Ganesh Chaturhi SMS here.

Raksha Bandhan - The Sacred Festivel Of India

Rakhi is a divine festival of Hindu religion. It generally celebrates on the full moon of the bengali month of Shravana. This occasion is mainly dedicated to the relation between brothers and sisters. It was started from the period of Mughals.During war king Himayu's sister presented a thread to him and said that if he wins the battle then he has to protect her through out life.



Rakshan Bandhan Scraps

Free Greetings
There are some historical facts related to the significance of Raksha bandhan. One of the important incident is concerned with Krishna and Draupadi story from the epic Mahabharata that Draupadi had torn a strip of silk from her sari and tied the thread on Krishna's index fingure to stop bleeding and Krishna repaid the debt of love at time of Bastra-Harana of Draupadi. Another legend is related with the story of the Lord of Death Yama and his sister Yamuna that Yamuna tied thread on the wrist of Yama and bestowed immorality and after that Yama declared that whoever gets a Rakhi from his sister and will promise to protect her for life time will get immorality. Since then the tradition is going on from generation to generation.



Rakshan Bandhan Scraps

Free Greetings
Raksha Bandhan is dedication of sacred love between brothers and sisters. Generally sisters tie thread on the wrist of their brother and pray for long life of their brothers and brothers in return give them enticing giffts and also promise to protect their sisters throught out life. Here blood relation is not necessary anyone who has a feeling of brotherhood towards any girl can get a rakhi and they can bind themselves in brother-sister relationship. It is an occasion to show the devine love and trust between brothers and sisters towards each other that they share from the very childhood. Raksha Bandhan has a social significance also as it also teaches people that they should live in a harmonious coexistence with each other. It binds all the family members in a stronng chain to live together happily everafter. On this very day brothers-sisters both feed each others by sweets. Raksha Bandhan is a tie of love, affection, trust and committment between brothers and sisters which strenghten the bonding of relation between each other.



Rakshan Bandhan Scraps

Free Greetings

The Celebration Of Happy Independence Day, 2010 In India

15^th August is a very memorable and joyous day for every Indian citizen as on this very special day we got independence in the year 1947. It is a day of remembrance. It is a day for giving tributes to all the patriots and freedom fighters who brought independence in our country by paying their life. It is a national holiday and is a general festival which does not come under any rituals. 

GoodLightscraps.com

       

 The whole country celebrates it very nicely. Our honourable Prime Minister starts the celebration by hosting flags and addressing the nation from the historical monument Red Fort in Delhi. Then he gives a speech on the achievements of the country and encourages the citizens for its further developments and presents the past history of Indian independence. The celebration gets its full form by a march-past of the armed and police forces. National television relays all the programmes from the beginning to the end. States capitals also celebrate this ceremony in the similar way.

  


GoodLightscraps.com 

In cities, the media goes to town and organizes contests, promotions, programmes related to Indian Independence. Television channels, Radio channels show old and new patriotic movies play old and new patriotic songs. Different brands pay their tributes to their nation through billboards. In cities, shop-keepers sell various types of independence instruments like flags, stickers, tee-shirts, try-coloured balloons, greetings card plastic bags etc. Now at the present time people also wish their friend by sending images, e-greeting cards, sms, scraps based on independence theme through internet.

      


GoodLightscraps.com 

In schools, college, students celebrates this day by arranging cultural programmes, drills, flag hosting, distribution of sweets and prizes etc. Government and private organization also follow the similar thing. House colonies, clubs, societies generally held entertainment programmes and competitions based on the freedom theme.

GoodLightscraps.com
Independence Day is a day of achievement of rights, liabilities and dignity. India will complete 62 years of Independence on 2010 from British colonial rules

Diwali - The Joyous Festival Of Light.

Diwali or Dipavali is the festivals of lights, it is a joyful celebration of the triumph of good over evil. People believe that the fireworks that add splandor to the festivities actually reduces the evil to ashes.It generally celebrated on Amabashya - the 15th of the dark fortnight of the Hindu month Aswin(october/ november) every year.






GoodLightscraps.com
The history of Diwali comes from the epic Ramayana on the return of Shri Ram along with his wife Sita after vanquishing The king Of Lanka, Ravana, to his kingdom Ayodhya. So the denizens of Ayodhya celebrated the return of their king by lightening with lamps.
On this occasion Ma Laxmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity also worshiped by people thorough out the India. It is a symbol of making a new beginning by doing away with all belongings and wares. People whitewash their house and also decorated their house with light oil lamps, candles, and many use to decorate with small bulbs runs by electricity. People buy new clothes and prepared various types of sweets to celebrate. I n the evening everyone wears new close and prays to God . It is generally celebrated in North India.
In South the context of Diwali is different. The history is based on Lord Krishna slaying Narakasura. The South Indians wake up early in the morning, pray to god, lightening crackers with having a grand feast.






GoodLightscraps.comThe festivals starts with Dhanteras on the birth of Goddess Laxmi from the bolttomless ocean. The second day is Narak Chaturdashi as on this day Satyabama slayed Narakasura with the help of Indra. Another history is that this day is celebrated on the return of king Bali to his kingdom.Third day is celebrated for the famous puropse that is the return of King Shri Ram to his kingdom Ayodhya. The fouth day is devoted to Govardhan puja which celebrates Krishna's feat of lifting the Govardhan hill on his fingures. The fifth day people celebrates as Bhai Duj, to give honour to brother-sister realtionship.For bengalis, It is the time to worsihp goddess Kali or Durga after killing Mahisasura.
This festivals teaches us a lot. We can learn that happiness and sorrow is a part of our life, and one follows the other. Lightening lamp is the way to make our life bright by prevading darkness. It teaches us to never give up hope which helps us to look forward. The better time will definitely come in life.


GoodLightscraps.com

Friendship Day 2010

Friendship Day 2010

Friendship Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August. The friendship is an event of dedicating a day in honor of friends which began in US in 1935. Gradually the Friendship Day gained vast popularity and today Friendship Day is celebrated in large number of countries including India with lots of enthusiasm.
Friendship Day is a day when you can share your feelings with your friends, or someone who is like your friend like lover, brothers, cousins, etc, its the day when you can celebrate your day with your friends, nearest and dearest ones.


Friendship Day Celebration Ideas
Friendship Day is the correct event to let your friends know how much they are close to your, how much they are cared, needed and loved. The best way to celebrate Friendship Day would be to spend in a way your friendship group enjoys and loves it most. Here are some Friendship Day celebration ideas just for you. So go ahead and have a beautiful Friendship Day celebration!

Organize a Friendship Day Party
Call your friends, and arrange a party where a group gathering could be happen, enjoy the day with lots of fun. One of the mostly used Friendship Day party is a picnic plan, decide a menu, a good place in natural environment, cooking with your friends. It will be great fun.

Gifts For Friends

Friendship Band
The most  popular gift for a friend is a friendship band. You may also gift your friends barcelets having beautiful designs.
Flower
Flower is the most easiest and conventional way to convey your emotion toward your friend . You can either gift a single flower or can also gift nice bouquet of fresh flowers or roses.
Show pieces
To make the friendship day memorable you can gift your friends show pieces of your choice or according to your friend's choice. Show pieces made of wood, glass, crystal, metal, paper are available in the shops.
Chocolates
Chocolate are the most yummy and delicious gifts for the foodies and it is one of the way to express feelings towards your friends that how much you take care of your friend's choice.
Soft Toys
Soft toys are one of the way to express your sweet and cute friendship to your friends also.
Photo Frames
Photo frame is one of the best way to save the memories ever green by taking photos of your friends that you
have once spent a lovely time together.
Books, Cds
Book is also a good gift for those of your friends who like to read and want to spend a long time with it.
Cds are also a good gift for your friends who like to listen musics.
Stationary
Stationary items like pens, writing pad, diaries can also be given as friendship gift.
Jewelry
Jwellary is also a good way to show your friends that they are that much precious to you. 
Candles
Now there are various types of candles are available in the market which have beautiful outlooks  and also a good gift to present and to make a warm atmosphere for celebration of the day.
Hand Made Things
A friend always want due care and love from his friends, anything whatsoever whether it is a bag or show piece, or greetings or any other things, if that is made by your own hands then it adds an extra flavor in your friendship.
Watch
Now various types of watches are available in the market and it is also a good item as a gift to present on friendship day.
Greetings Card
Friendship Greetings Card are also a nice and simple way to give your friends to show the simplicity of your friendship.
Now wish your friends by sending Friendship Day Cards on friendship day and celebrate the day.








GoodLightscraps.com