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NUAKHAI

2nd September, 2022

 

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Context:  The Prime Minister has greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Nuakhai. 

Details:

  • Nuakhai Juhar is an agricultural festival, also called Nuakhai Parab or Nuakahi Bhetghat.
  • It is celebrated to welcome the new crop of the season.
  • Nuakhai is a combination of two words that signifies eating of new rice as ‘nua’ means new and ‘khai’ means eat.
  • This is the festival of Western Odisha, southern Chhattisgarh and adjoining areas of Simdega (Jharkhand).
  • Its coastal counterpart is Nabanna, observed in Coastal Odisha.
  • It is observed on panchami tithi (the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
  • Farmers offer the first produce from their lands to Goddess Samaleswari, the famous ‘Mother Goddess’ of Sambalpur district of Odisha.
  • Sambalpuri dance forms like Rasarkeli and Dalkhai can be witnessed.
  • Nuakhai festival traces its origin to the Vedic period in Panchyajna.

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