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A Punjabi fete in Chennai
R. Sujatha
CHENNAI:
Punjab Association will organise a its annual Lohri on January 6, at Kamal Babbar Farm House, in Injambakkam. The event will include a live programme by singer Gurdas Mann, considered `Jewel of Punjab'.
Two versions of Lohri exist: Lohrii is celebrated on the last day of the lunar month of Paush, marking the end of winter. People invoke Sun god by lighting bonfire as thanksgiving. The Punjabis believe the weather turns warm the morning after Lohri, on the first day of Magh.
Another version is that people lit fire to keep away carnivores. Children went door-to-door and collected firewood. Families with newborn son or newly wed men make sweets made of molasses (rorhi) and sesame (til) and the festival came to be called Lohri.
Sugarcane is thrown into the bonfire, spreading the aroma of burning sugar in the courtyard. Girls light firewood, sing and dance around it.
— R. Sujatha
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