Saturday 14 January 2012

Sankranti Subhakankshalu/ Happy Pongal

Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous Sankranti. Here's a visual treat with a collection of festival pictures. Have a great time, everyone.
 My mother-in-law and i took a little more than an hour yesterday evening to make this  Sankranti muggu (design made with rice flour) in front of our house. The muggu is then decorated with turmeric, vermilion, some regi pallu, tomatoes or dosakaya (lemon cucumber?) and coins. The right side design was done entirely by me. I used to do these designs with mom when i was much younger, but have lost touch when i left my home town and state and country for higher education and then job. It was great to find out i could still do this. Though i have to admit that i practised thrice on paper before starting with the rice flour on the floor. It starts with 25 dots, continuing with 23, 21 so on up to 1 by reducing one dot on each side. The dots are then joined to make the design. The muggu made with lines as seen on the left is the more traditional one for Sankranti.

The husband was flying this kite while i had the camera in hand. I had to extend to the end of the optical zoom limit to get this close to the kite which was quite high in the sky.
Haridasulu (above) and Gangireddulu (below) are a mark of the traditional Sankranti festival celebration in Andhra Pradesh. 

21 comments:

  1. Lovely pics. Thanks for sharing them. Happy Sankranti to you and family.

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  2. Lovely! Happy sankranti to you. So what goodies did you make?
    I am in awe of your talents, La. You draw so well... the Rangoli is fabulous.

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    1. Thank you so much. The drawings are not very fine in close up, thats why you get to see it from far away :D
      We had vadas and mango rice (made of grated raw mango) and payasam

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  3. Lovely post. Happy Sankranti...

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  4. platter is attractive
    happy sakranti

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  5. Really missing all this festivities here, really pleasant to eyes..Happy sankranthi wishes dear..

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  6. Great post. Happy Pongal to you too.. I am announcing Valentines Special – my 1st blog event and a Giveaway.!. Please do be a part of it and send in your recipes..! :)

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    1. Anzz, thank you. Can't see your website from your blogger profile. Can you send it?

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  7. Those muggulu are nice. What I noticed was that they bring the gangireddu out for every festival these days, to earn money.

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    1. Thank you Sra. Haven't noticed gangireddulu much for other festivals, but this last week they seemed to be everywhere. These pics are from shilparamam though, where they even dance to the music made by their masters.

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  8. thats a beautiful post on Sankranti. well written glimpse of the culture. the kolams are really well made. they look so intrinsic that I never dared to try.

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    1. Thanks so much.. The kolams are not really that difficult, we just need a little practice..

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  9. wow...beauuuuuuuutiful post..love the kolam pics
    Tasty Appetite

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  10. Wish you and your family a very happy pongal.
    Wonderful and informative post with lovely kollam.

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  11. Hi dear.
    Well the chocolate is just chocolate sauce that i was trying to put in straight lines but the sauce had other plans. so to make the mess look some kind of design i filled some gaps. Thanks for the lovely comment. I feel free to make some more designs that are generally not in tandem with my thoughts. This is because teacher did not fail me in drawing exam. :) . You see failing does have some advantages.:)

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  12. Belated Pongal Wishes..great clicks and nice write up..thanx for stopping by my space..happy to follow u too...:)

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  13. Great pics dear !! Pongal Wishes to you also !! Thanks for dropping to my space !! Glad to follow u !!

    Ongoing Event - CC-Chocolate Fest

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  14. Beautiful! Those sweets look amazing.

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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