14 Jan’14
Ten Things about the Day Today… 14 Jan 14
- It is KG’s birthday today and we started the celebrations with cutting the cake at sharp 12.
- In the afternoon, we rushed to our family friends who celebrate Makar Sakranti in a big way. It is seen that people who have relatives in the same city or have joint families celebrate festivals with great zeal and gusto as compared to the nuclear families. See the men and boys at work… preparing the kites so that they soar high in the sky.
3. Such is the craze for flying kites that they bought a carton full of kites
4. What’s Makar Sakranti without food
5. And Firewater
6. And Dance
7. The youngest and the oldest kite fliers around us…
8. And we had some more food by cooking live on the terrace and serving hot pakoras and tea to the enthusiastic kite fliers
9. Kites in the sky and a lone balloon too
10. Finally the hectic day came to an end by lighting a sky lantern at night. The market is flooded by these Chinese lanterns and is a new thing which dotted the skyline of our city today.
How did you celebrate Makar Sakranti/Pongal?
Linking it to January 2014 Ultimate Blog Challenge and NaBloPoMo
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January 14, 2014 11:10 pm|
Sounds like such a fun day. Missed the kite flying here in Pune. Happy Sankrant.
January 15, 2014 11:35 pm|
It was a super fun day! Oh, no kite flying in Pune? Happy Sankrant to you too, T 🙂
January 14, 2014 11:26 pm|
That cake looks so delicious, I’m sure it tasted the same way too. I’ve always wanted to fly kites, after having heard all the elders in the family speak about how fun it used to be. And as for Sankranti, I’ve been stuffing myself with food that I can set my eyes on 🙂
January 15, 2014 11:38 pm|
The cake turned out good! So excited we were that we polished it off in no time! Kite flying is fun with friends…. visit us next time and you can learn to fly it too. Oh the till goodies are so tempting, and the thing is that you cant stop at one!
January 15, 2014 12:14 am|
Wow, you are doing a NaBloPoMo! Good luck Shilpa and best wishes to KG 🙂
January 15, 2014 11:38 pm|
Yes, crazy me!! 😀
Thanks a lot, Swaram for the wishes! 🙂
January 15, 2014 12:44 am|
Happy Birthday to the Mr. 🙂 Lovely pics Shilpa…reminded me of days when as kids we used to look forward to flying kites this day!
January 15, 2014 11:39 pm|
Thank you Aditi! Now you dont do it??
January 15, 2014 6:31 am|
Wish you a very Happy Makara Sankranti Shilpa 🙂 The colorful kites, the food and people complete the definition of festival and spread joy. Belated Birthday wishes to Mr.Garg 🙂
January 15, 2014 11:39 pm|
Thank you so much Reshma! 🙂
January 15, 2014 7:03 am|
Happy sankranthi Shilpa 🙂 Looks like you had a fun day. Cake, pakodas and all the food are making me hungry.
January 15, 2014 11:40 pm|
It was a super active and fun day! Happy sakranthi to you too A 🙂
January 15, 2014 8:50 am|
Please convey my birthday wises to KG. Makara Shankranthi is celebrated all over India. Only different names. EG In Tamilnadu, it is Pongal.
January 15, 2014 11:43 pm|
Thank you so much, SG. That’s true, different names and different styles of celebrations but all signify the arrival of spring!
January 15, 2014 9:01 am|
I always wanted to fly a kite and once I did it successfully too. When I was young, the area in which our grandparents house was located was full of kites in the evening. But our area is as blank as it can be, so didn’t get many opportunities. Good to see so many kites in the carton 🙂
January 15, 2014 11:43 pm|
Here in Jaipur, it is a crazy place during this month and especially on 14th. Kite flying is a big thing here!
January 15, 2014 9:47 am|
Wow Shilpa, it was a fun filled day.——flying kites, and cake, pakoras and more goodies for the palate. Great! Give my best wishes to KG.
January 15, 2014 11:44 pm|
We had a great time yesterday. Thanks Ma’am… have conveyed the same to KG 🙂
January 15, 2014 4:06 pm|
Lovely pics 🙂 and I love the concept of 10 on thursday. Sadly, Makar sankranti wasn’t at all special for me 🙁
January 15, 2014 11:45 pm|
Thanks Sugandha! Glad you liked this Ten on Tuesdays series! Why what happened? Were you working?
January 15, 2014 7:06 pm|
We pretty much celebrate it like you did there minus the fire water! 😛
Where do you live? I though its only in Gujarat that it is celebrated this way!
January 15, 2014 11:47 pm|
We are in Jaipur! 🙂 In Rajasthan, kite flying is like a big festival… right from morn till eve… and now till night too courtesy lamp kites and Chinese lanterns!
January 15, 2014 7:34 pm|
Sounds and looks like you all had a fabulous time!! Love it!! ♥
January 20, 2014 11:06 pm|
We did. Thanks Kathy 🙂
January 15, 2014 9:15 pm|
Such a lovely warm post. I have never celebrated Sankranti like this.
January 15, 2014 11:47 pm|
Oh! How do you celebrate it then?
January 15, 2014 10:05 pm|
Now I know where were you all this while 😀 But it all sounds like a lot of fun!!
January 15, 2014 11:49 pm|
LOL 😀
It was absolute fun. By evening we were dog tired!! 😀
January 15, 2014 10:32 pm|
You must have had so much fun no…? I on the other hand slept at home the whole day! God! when I have children they’ll say their mother has no enthu for anything!
January 15, 2014 11:50 pm|
LOL @ your comment! Dont worry, motherhood teaches all those things which we never did before! 😀
January 15, 2014 11:14 pm|
Wow!! Your day sounds like fun!!
Here, its a quiet celebration – with just pooja and food 😀
January 15, 2014 11:54 pm|
Ours was a hectic but fun filled day, yes!
Pooja and food is a perfect combination too 🙂
January 16, 2014 12:42 am|
I definitely miss this!! 🙁
How have you been, Shilpa?! I’m sorry I haven’t visited in a while. Was in India, and am now raring to get back to reading blogs!
January 16, 2014 11:59 am|
Good to see you back, Roshni and glad that you had a great time in India. Some wonderful pics on your blog! 🙂
January 16, 2014 10:00 am|
Belated birthday to KG. The pics do tell that you definitely had a good time. 🙂
January 16, 2014 12:00 pm|
Thanks a lot, Rekha! Yes, pics say it all 🙂
January 16, 2014 10:32 am|
Did you bake the cake? The right way to enjoy the festival is with good food and friends. You seem to have had a good time:) The sky lantern is beautiful, i love the pictures of sky lantern whenever i see them. Here, friends came over to our place for pongal and we did fly kites. The city’s skyline is dotted with kites and there is a contest here called ‘patangbaazi’. lots of colorful rangolis on the road too.
January 16, 2014 12:03 pm|
Yes, Aaryan and I baked it! 🙂
Glad that you had a great time too. Ok, so kites are flown on Pongal too. Cool! Yes, even here there’s big kite contests! Rangolis are absent here though! 🙂
January 16, 2014 7:04 pm|
Patang Vatang To Therk hai.
KG is a lucky man born on maker sankrati.
Wish him on my behalf.
January 20, 2014 11:05 pm|
I did! Thank you so much, Mr Chowla 🙂
January 16, 2014 7:56 pm|
Sounds like so much fun! For the less fortunate people like us who live miles away from home,it was just another working day. Although at home, we made sweet pongal and invited few close friends for a get-together.
January 20, 2014 11:06 pm|
Celebrations with friends is super cool 🙂
January 16, 2014 8:14 pm|
Sounds like a lot of fun and a great day! ♥
January 20, 2014 11:08 pm|
Aww! Kathy you are so sweet. You commented twice on so many of my posts! Was not aware that you comments had landed in the spam folder. Appreciate your efforts. Thank you so much ♥♥
January 16, 2014 9:26 pm|
Looks like you had a good day 🙂
January 20, 2014 11:08 pm|
Yess 🙂
January 17, 2014 10:17 am|
Belated happy birthday, KG! Seems like you had a fun day!
January 20, 2014 11:09 pm|
Thanks Rachna!! Yes, the pics speak for themselves 🙂
January 17, 2014 12:57 pm|
Lovely pictures. Such fun times, with pakoras and chai.
Happy Festivities!
Happy Birthday to your husband too!
January 20, 2014 11:09 pm|
Thank you so much Rama 🙂
January 17, 2014 1:41 pm|
Sounds like you had a great day. and pakoras and chai sound yummy.
January 20, 2014 11:09 pm|
Yessss… it was awesome fun. Thanks Suzy 🙂