THANE: From feasting on traditional vegetarian sadya and original mangsho and maach bhaat to binging on festive chocolates like of payasam, kada prasad and mishit doi, voters across quite a lot of communities within the lake city ushered within the New Year on a gastronomical notice.
As Sunday and Monday marked the start of the harvest festival across the states of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Punjab and the North East, voters hailing from these regions went to nice lengths to duplicate the standard festivities and food to stick connected to their roots.
Swarnendu Bhattacharya who celebrated the Bengali New Year along with his friends and family on Monday stated, “Staying away from our hometowns makes it tough to stick in touch with our traditions. However, we benefit from these fairs to remind us of our roots.”
“While we start the day with prayers for the New Year, dressed in new festive clothes and finish it via attending Rabindra Sangeet events and different festivities, the principle part of the celebration is the food. Dishes like mangsho and maach bhaat are an very important part of the feast, adopted via chocolates like rasgullas and mishti dahi,” Bhattacharya added.
Agreeing with him, Manpada resident Sashikumar Nair who celebrated Vishu on Monday, added, “We get started our day via praying to Lord Krishna for the New Year and gifting the kids in our houses. We then move on to one of the engaging part of the festivities, which is the custom vegetarian meal at the banana leaf or the sadya. We have over 17 sorts of dishes including vegetables, rice, sambars, khichdis, papadams and payasam as part of this meal.”
The Tamilian community, who had their Puthandu celebrations on Sunday, additionally crowned off their festivities with a buffet of quite a lot of sorts of vegetables including avial and French beans, rassams, sambars, rice and payassam to welcome within the new year.
As Sunday and Monday marked the start of the harvest festival across the states, voters went to nice lengths to duplicate the standard festivities and food to stick connected to their roots.
As Sunday and Monday marked the start of the harvest festival across the states of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Punjab and the North East, voters hailing from these regions went to nice lengths to duplicate the standard festivities and food to stick connected to their roots.
Swarnendu Bhattacharya who celebrated the Bengali New Year along with his friends and family on Monday stated, “Staying away from our hometowns makes it tough to stick in touch with our traditions. However, we benefit from these fairs to remind us of our roots.”
“While we start the day with prayers for the New Year, dressed in new festive clothes and finish it via attending Rabindra Sangeet events and different festivities, the principle part of the celebration is the food. Dishes like mangsho and maach bhaat are an very important part of the feast, adopted via chocolates like rasgullas and mishti dahi,” Bhattacharya added.
Agreeing with him, Manpada resident Sashikumar Nair who celebrated Vishu on Monday, added, “We get started our day via praying to Lord Krishna for the New Year and gifting the kids in our houses. We then move on to one of the engaging part of the festivities, which is the custom vegetarian meal at the banana leaf or the sadya. We have over 17 sorts of dishes including vegetables, rice, sambars, khichdis, papadams and payasam as part of this meal.”
The Tamilian community, who had their Puthandu celebrations on Sunday, additionally crowned off their festivities with a buffet of quite a lot of sorts of vegetables including avial and French beans, rassams, sambars, rice and payassam to welcome within the new year.
As Sunday and Monday marked the start of the harvest festival across the states, voters went to nice lengths to duplicate the standard festivities and food to stick connected to their roots.
Communities usher in New Year on a gastronomical note
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April 16, 2019
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