Happy New Year 2021 - The auspicious Magha Updated Jan 13, 2021 | 13:33 IST
Makar Sankranti, also known as Maghi to many, is the Hindu festival which is celebrated across the states of India in cultural forms that may differ, but enthusiasm remains equal across the section of people. Representational image | Photo Credit: iStock Images
|| Gita 8:24 ||
Fire, light, day, the bright (fortnight of the month), the northern movement comprising six months (Uttarayana); those people who have departed through that path attain Brahman (Moksha).
Moksha!!!!!!! Or Salvation….Is this not the one thing that all of us through race, colour class and caste aspire for? And the beginning of the month in the Gregorian calendar January has been celebrated by painters and artists throughout the world. The Pre-Renaissance painters celebrated the winter months especially January in their own imitable way. According to the Hindu calendar, January is the month