A dimension within Festivals & Cultural Food
This theme explores the role of festivals, traditional food, and heritage in community life.
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We have a communal experience that enlivens our culture and nature. This is how we celebrate the harvest festival on Pousha Purnami. We go house to house, asking for pitha pana (traditional dishes/sweets) and some money, and perform songs and dances.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Sambalpur, Odisha
We have a collective experience that revives our culture and nature. During Pousha Purnami, we celebrate the harvest festival by going door-to-door, asking for pithas (traditional cakes/sweets) and some money.
— Kumudini Chhanchan
We have a collective experience that revitalizes our culture and nature. This is when, on Pausha Purnima, we celebrate the harvest festival by going house to house and asking for traditional cakes (pithas), drinks (panna), and some money.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
Festival, traditional food,and culture
— KRUSHNA KHILLO
We really enjoy celebrating festivals together with traditional songs for the villagers.
— Chanda
Culture and traditions
— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha
Food, festival, traditional agriculture, traditional medicine etc
— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha
Bringing back traditional attire, celebrating traditional holidays, and traditional dance and music.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
Dahiya Karma Khichdi is an old tradition here. It feels very good to see and celebrate these festivals.
— Chanda · Baghauri, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
These are the ways of wearing, talking, playing, dancing, singing, and celebrating festivals in our tribe.
— Priti majhi
In our heritage, earlier, children used to celebrate festivals and food very well. Food items were sent to each other's houses, and people would also bring them to their own homes.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Certainly, festivals like Paitha Parba, then Pusa Parba, Magha Parba, and Dussehra Parba are part of our community's traditions and experiences.
— jitendra khila · Lachery, Malkangiri, Odisha
We are happy remembering the traditional things of the past.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
To participate in a traditional festival
— Chanda
Celebrating festivals with family
— Chanda
In our society, we still observe traditional customs.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
Traditional customs and rituals
— Anirudha Marai
We should not forget our past culture and all traditions. Now, if everyone lives together in that traditional way, it will be very joyful with God.
— Bisendra Naik · Kasipur, Rayagada, Odisha
Through our traditional dance and songs, our culture.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
In our culture, our way of life, natural environment, social customs, festivals, attire, dance, and music
— Bharati Khandapatra · Mayurbhanj, Odisha
Yes, we have many such festivals where we participate and celebrate together, and eat together, which keeps us connected to each other.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Our village celebrated its culture, gods, and ancestral deities during festivals. We maintained our unique identity and passed it on to the next generation.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We remember community practices, relationships, and aspects of nature that are traditional community rituals.
— Laxmanlal
We are happy remembering past festivals.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
In our community, there are some traditional community practices or rituals that keep people mentally strong and emotionally balanced, such as the festivals here like Karma, Sarhul, etc.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Customs and traditions and from our tradition
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our tradition is connected to nature.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Culture
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our tribal tradition
— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Here, during the Jijatola festival, Gathri Khurma is prepared. The next day, when we go for Gendi Visarjan to rivers, streams, or ponds, after completing all the rituals, we enjoy eating each other's dishes. This tradition, therefore, keeps our community connected from the heart and fosters the welfare of society.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is joy in celebrating Holi, Diwali, Dussehra festivals together with one's family.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should always protect our culture. In this way, on every festival, we celebrate our culture with great fanfare, worship deities, and perform puja. Similarly, the coming day should also be celebrated with great joy, and we should always keep celebrating it.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Traditional singing, songs, customs, traditions, worship.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
It is appropriate to preserve our culture, games, dance, songs, worship, and festivals for the coming generation.
— Priti majhi
Worship, food and drink, social activities, attire.
— Krishna pada mahato · Purulia, West Bengal
Being together in the family brings us great joy. Let us fill ourselves with abundant joy during festivals, dances, and traditional music and dance.
— sudhir gamanga · Birikota, Rayagada, Odisha
Our original culture consists of our food, our customs, our traditions, and our heritage culture; it is traditional.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Traditional festivals Holi Diwali
— Chanda
Dhaas is a traditional custom. Everyone works together there, sings songs, and has fun, and it feels good.
— Kachala Choudhary
It is a community experience in which families sit together during festivals, in which the community's
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
