Photos | From Lohri to Bhogali Bihu: Festive celebrations across India

Students wearing traditional Punjabi attire dance during the Lohri festival celebrations in Amritsar. Lohri is celebrated on the last day of ‘Poh’ month of the Bikrami calendar, a day before the month of ‘Maagh’ begins. (PTI)

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Students wearing traditional Punjabi attire dance during the Lohri festival celebrations in Amritsar. Lohri is celebrated on the last day of ‘Poh’ month of the Bikrami calendar, a day before the month of ‘Maagh’ begins. (PTI)

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Kite-flying enthusiasts fly kites on the first day of the eight-day-long International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad. (Amit Dave/ REUTERS)

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A student seen on a swing during celebrations for Pongal, the Tamil harvest festival, at a college in Chennai. (Arun Sankar / AFP)

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Students wearing traditional Punjabi dresses dance during Lohri in Amritsar. (Sameer Sehgal / HT Photo)

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Villagers take part a community fishing event during Bhogali Bihu celebrations at Goroimari Lake in Panbari, Guwahati. (Biju Boro / AFP)

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A passenger climbs into a train bound for coastal districts in the state of Andhra Pradesh at Secunderabad Railway Station in Hyderabad. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

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Tribals dance during the ‘Badna Parab’ festival on the eve of Maker Sankranti at Gopalnagar in Birbhum district of West Bengal. (PTI)

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People make Litti for their evening meal before leaving the transit camp to Gangasagar, in Kolkata. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take the annual holy dip at Gangasagar, where the Ganges River reaches the Bay of Bengal, on the auspicious Makar Sankranti festival day that falls on January 14. (Bikas Das / AP)

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Members of Southern Railway Mazdoor Union celebrate Pongal festival, in Coimbatore. (PTI)

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A tourist shows a picture to a camel owner during the inaugural ceremony of International Camel Festival in Bikaner. (PTI)

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Workers erect spectator stands as they prepare for Jallikattu festival. (Moses Abhishek / HT photo)

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A man sells fish at a market on the occasion of harvest festival Magh Bihu in Assam. (PTI)

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Women perform a traditional folk dance near a bonfire as they celebrate the Lohri festival, which marks the culmination of winter in many parts of northern India, in Jammu. (Mukesh Gupta / REUTERS)

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Vendors unloading turmeric for sale at Koyambedu vegetable market on the occasion of Pongal festival in Chennai. (PTI)

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Indian Hindu devotees stand in a queue outside a free meal distribution camp at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the annual traditional fair of 'Magh Mela' in Allahabad. (Sanjay Kanojia / AFP)