Of Kolam, kites and Gatka: Nation drapes colours of festivities

Procession being taken out ahead of 10th Guru Gobind Singh Birth Anniversary in Chandigarh on Thursday. (Keshav Singh/HT Photo)

Updated on: Jan 15, 2016 10:07 PM IST

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Procession being taken out ahead of 10th Guru Gobind Singh Birth Anniversary in Chandigarh on Thursday. (Keshav Singh/HT Photo)

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College students making a Kolam on the occasion of Pongal festival in Coimbatore on Wednesday. (PTI)

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Kite flying is the favourite sport during Makar Sankranti in many parts of the country, especially Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Here, boys try to catch a kite at Mumbai’s Girgaum Chowpatty on Thursday. (Kunal Patil/ HT Photo)

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On the occasion of Maghi (Makar Sankranti), devotees take a holy dip in the sarovar of the historic Gurudwara Dukhniwaran Sahib in Patiala on Thursday. (Bharat Bhushan/HT Photo)

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Hindu devotees arrive to take a holy bath before performing rituals during the Gangasagar Mela on the occasion of Makar Sankranti at Gangasagar Island, some 150 km south of Kolkata, on Thursday (AFP)

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Hindu devotees take a holy bath before performing rituals during the Gangasagar Mela on the occasion of Makar Sankranti at Gangasagar Island, some 150 km south of Kolkata, on Thursday. (AFP)

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Devotees taking a moment off to click a selfie during the religious procession (Nagar Kirtan), ahead of Guru Gobind Singh’s tenth birth anniversary in SAS Nagar on Thursday. (Gurminder Singh/HT Photo)

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Students of Punjab University celebrate Lohri festival in Chandigarh. (Sanjeev Pandit/HT Photo )

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Actor R Madhavan and kick-boxer-turned actor Ritika Singh during a traditional Pongal breakfast while also promoting their film "Saala Khadoos" in Mumbai on Thursday. (PTI)

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People celebrating Lohri at La Lagune on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon on Wednesday. (Abhinav Saha/HT Photo)

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Sikh youth presenting the art of religious martial art " Gatka" during a procession taken out to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Bhopal on Thursday. (Mujeeb Faruqui/ HT Photo )

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‘Man’s joy, bird’s sorrow’: An eagle injured by Manjha (a sharp glass-powder coated kite thread) being treated by a veterinary doctor at a voluntary bird injury camp in Jaipur on Thursday. Use of Chinese thread during the festival of kites on Makar Sankranti is banned as hundreds of birds as well as people get injured. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo )