{27} A SHORT STORY ON LOHRI FESTIVAL
Lohri Festival is generally considered a festival of Panjabies.But it is not so.This festival is not only celebrated in Punjab,but also,is celebrated in Himachal Pradesh,Delhi and Jammu.The festival comes in the auspicious month of January.The day has its historical significance. It is said that in the age of Akbar,The Great,there was a famous dacoit named Dulla Bhtti Wala. Though his act of robbery was not appreciable,yet he earned a great reputation because of his kind-heartedness ,his sympathetic kind of nature and his virtue. One day when he came to know that two poor girls named Sundary and Mundary were forcibly being pushed to marry a king he immediately rushed and brought both the girls to a jungle. He lit the bonefire and married them off.In a gift,he gave them one k.g. jaggery and like a father bid fare...