{27} A SHORT STORY ON LOHRI FESTIVAL

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  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 farewell too. His eminence was spread street to street and people sang a song in his praise---
                                            Sunder-Mundriye,ho
                                           Tera kaun bichara,ho
                                           Dulla Bhatti Wala,ho
                                           Dulla dhee vyaai,ho
                                           ser shkkr pai,ho---------------
           Perhaps this is the reason, bonefire is lit to burn social evils, orthodoxical  customs and  rituals. It also marks the end of the season of damp and diseases. The hidden miasmas or vapours rising from the ground release all manner of creeping diseases carrying insects and germs often contagious and deadly to both man and beast. It is probably why there is burning of all the accumulated refuse that we collect during the year.
                    
 seasame seeds coated with sugar  signifies another theme,"Till gul khava,god god bola" that means 'eat sweet and speak sweet.' 
          
 'kites' are the symbol of our aim and 'to fly' them is to brave through the mercurial winds of our mind. It requires us to be fragile and flexible as a kite and to be adaptable and present in the face of adversity like a kite runner flying his kite.
                        There is a story in 'The Ramcharitmanas' that once rama flew a kite to heaven. it was held captive by Lord Indra's daughter-in-law. Rama sent Hanuman to retrieve it but the daughter-in-law refused to release it unless Rama promised to accept her condition of an audience with her on the hills of Chitrakoot. The story obliquely warns us not to take our life on earth for granted.
                    
                     Thus the festival of Makar Sankranti stands for the new light, a promising start and to burn bygones.
                   
                                            

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