Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Bandi Festival

Festivals are really important for our lives life is really incomplete without festivals, one of the most famous and wonderful festival of Sikh Community is Bandi Festival This festival is very popular and well known all over the India mainly in Punjab. People welcome it with great enthusiasm and fun as it fills them with new energy and gives them a wonderful reason to celebrate life.

Bandi Festival comes in the month of October and November, very significant festival of Sikh Community. this festival is celebrated on the occasions of the arrival of very famous Sikh Guru to Amritsar, he reached there on the day of the Diwali so this is the another important reason, making Bandi Festival the most important festival of the Sikh Community.

Bandi Festival

On this day there is great joy every where,in fact it is called Diwali of Sikhs. The day begins with wonderful preparations as the people clean their houses and do so much of decoration like they put flowers and beautiful lights on the houses. There is a wave of happiness and pleasure around.

On this day the people gather and perform so many activities like they celebrate the day with the traditional folk dance Bhangra s every one wants to celebrate this festival with true spirit. People got to the temple and perform long prayers specially to Golden Temple, and pray for the blessings for well being of the family. In the evening time the people use to add more pleasure to this festival by playing with crackers and fireworks.

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