Mysore/Mysuru: With just a day to go for Makara Sankranti (Jan.15), the first major festival of the new year, the city markets are witnessing a rush of people who are thronging them for making last minute purchases for the festival.
The markets and other shops were flooded with packets of yellu-bella (mixture of seasame and jaggery pieces), sugarcane stalks, puja articles, clothes and all other articles widely used in the festival, which is dedicated to the Sun God (Surya).
Paramesh and Sagar from Holenarasipur, who sell sugarcane stalks at Agrahara Circle during the festival every year, said that the demand for the cane has shot up this year as compared to the previous years. Maintaining that they have already sold two lorry loads of sugarcane, the duo said that they were forced to get another load of sugarcane following the huge demand.
Jaggery (bellada achhu) and sugar cubes (sakkare achhu), mango leaves, flowers and fruits used in this religious, cultural and harvest festival were in great demand too. However, the prices have shot up only marginally, thus bringing some sort of relief to the people, who are reeling under soaring prices of essential commodities. A quarter kg. packet of yellu-bella mix is being sold at Rs.30.
Apart from the traditional pujas and rituals attached with it, the festival also features many other activities such as kite flying, bonfires, fairs, surya puja in rivers, feast, arts, dance, socialisation, gau puja etc., especially in rural areas, where the festival is celebrated with great fervor.
People should be more careful. Our neighbor China with fantastic Healthcare system and a perfect government has reported this news. Xi Jinping is almost running a Ramarajya where thus can happen.
https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/china-reports-almost-60000-covid-related-deaths-in-a-month-1181025.html
Hey Sam
How is IT techie work , coding I means 24/7 at Bay area?
I was expecting you to say Sudha Murthy is next to Chamundeshwari, as you were so grateful to her and her husband, to have provided you IT techie cheap labour.
Forget China, which is a superpower, which is even feared by USA, which you IT Techie coolies fo not grasp, but focus on your poor pay in USDs compared to an American!
Who is this scoundrel calling himself @Sam
He has stolen my name, and now thinks that the third world corrupt country India is superior, after 2021 fiasco in regards to Oxygen supplies, when thousands of Indians perished as a result.
His PM Narendra Modi was hiding in igloo with plenty of Oxygen and growing his beard!
Hello @Sam
Just read this, about Narendra Modi’s Ramarajya instead, You will be very proud
“Santro Ravi, who is booked by Vijayanagar Police under several charges including sexual assault, forceful marriage and caste abuse, on the basis of a complaint lodged by his second wife, on Jan. 2, was arrested by the Police at Ahmedabad in Gujarat yesterday.
Moreover, Santro Ravi’s alleged high profile links involving State BJP Ministers, Police Officers and bureaucrats had heated up the case further, forcing the Police to apprehend him at the earliest.”
Hey @Sam who writes about China and Ramarajya, although, there was no Rama in China. Dimwiited IT Techie coolie!
How about reading this article by Vikram the SOM editor: “Dangerous Public Works!?
But rthen , it is a quantum leap for you with a small brain, fit for coding!!
By seeing all the Anti-india comments all the india haters have given a lot of confidence to China and Pakistan that they don’t need a war. India has enough internal enemies that given an opportunity they can blow it up internally!!
Hello Amar Akbar
Your name suggests you are a Muslim or a Muslim sympathiser, a villain with a single cell brain,
You will support Pakistan any day, idiot.
@Amar Akbar Anthony
Checking I find it once a Bollywood film. So much about your shallow brain power!
Anyway, tjust check the apps you have downloaded for your smart phone- I guess every Indian has a smart phone whether he eats or not, and the chances are that they would be developed in China, not in your Infosys, sweatshop s which only makes their founders rich. So much abouit your Bangalore IT hub and Start Ups!
The fool who posted about Ramarajuya in China, is a dullard like you. There was no Rama or Krishna in China, but there was Ming dynasty, who discovered the rocket technology, not that Muslim thug Tipu Sultan,, as asserted by another idiot in your country, called the president-yes, Kovind!
China is going to overtake the US in military power and economic power. Unlike India, which just educates people to be IT techie coolies, doing cheap coding work , China has become science superpower too. While India bought outdated non-stealth Rafale jet fighters from France, China has nome made stealth fighters, and hypersonic missiles: Only China, Russia and US have got these missiles.
Your PM Modi did not reveal that just recently, China took territories from India, in a skirmish near Himachal Pradesh! Modi does not want his people to know!
Where is Modi any way? Yes, hiding in a cave near his house in New Delhi, scared of catching Covid-19 strain,, the same way he did in 2021!
Just a few months 2021 Covid-19 spread will repeat and there will be short of oxygen supplies!!
What a crowd! So attractive to the Covid-19 spread!!
Well, posters, wait for the Covid-19 Ravana to strike at your Ramarajya!
Given that in this city ,there will be so many festivals over a 12-month period, and crowds in each festival, Covid-19 find them very attractive.
Why look at China, when there were so many hundreds of thousands of deaths in 2012, mainly due to the lack of oxygen supplies, and the media showing dozens of funeral pyres lit at the length and breadth of this country.
Bangalore-Mysore highway will bring thousands of people from outside this city and state!
I can’t understand why some people are infuriated when anybody posts any link about the news regarding China’s failure and start abusing and shooting at the messengers at a personal levels? Are CCP members already here? Or is it the BJP hatred swayed them all they way that they have volunteered to defend the devil? The news about China is the official figures, the reality is far more gory and ugly. They want all their senior citizens to die so they don’t want to spend any money on their health care. If this policy is implemented all these China defenders would have been long dead unreported without even a proper burial
Gurudeep
You talk ,like a dim witted scoundrel. , which you really are.
Your small brain does not grasp that old people-do not give them a fancy name like senior ciotizens, like in the US, where they do not get much healthcare as their medicare is not sufficient to cover them. You are so ignorant that you do not realise that in India, the healthcare is not free,
Just shut up, and if you live in the US, pray that you are not going to hit by another Covid-19 wave , when in the last time, it killed many Americans.
Just shut up and move on.
Gurudeep
You talk ,like a dim witted scoundrel. , which you really are.
Your small brain does not grasp that old people-do not give them a fancy name like senior ciotizens, like in the US, where they do not get much healthcare as their medicare is not sufficient to cover them. You are so ignorant that you do not realise that in India, the healthcare is not free,
Just shut up, and if you live in the US, pray that you are not going to hit by another Covid-19 wave , when in the last time, it killed many Americans.
Just shut up and move on.
This @Gurudeep, should watch himself , id he lives in the US, as a 5 year old kid can shoot him dead! These days in the US, the primary school children have access to semi automatic handguns!
Hello Gurudeep
You sound confused and seems to have difficulty is grasping why China comparison is involved.
Read the posts where some posters have explained this. But then, you appear to be a cheap Indian IT techie, who often has no clue!
We so many of you in Turkey wandering ]following girls here. Some get beaten as a result!
Hey AAP
I see here in New Delhi, massive numbers of Covid-19 infections, and I guess many deaths. But the AAP administration has hidden the numbers of deaths.
I am guessing that there are large numbers of desths staring to happen in India,. The opnly problem is the BJP Government headed by Modi does not want to release those figures.
As for NY Times, a newspaper which supports Joe Biden, it has always accused China of one thing or another.. But there are plenty other newspaper s in the US and in Europe who are asking whether Indians should be stopped visiting Western countries, as Covid-19 is raging in India too. It is just that it is not reported, just like in 2021.
All you had to do is watch where Narendra Modi is, whether he is freely visiting states for functions. He is not doing this, which means he is hiding in his Igloo in New Delhi, just like he did in 2021.
What a shame, you are a volunteer for those Hindi Fanatic thugs-AAP politicos!
How to spot an urban Naxal
1. When this person is losing an argument, he uses abusive language by calling you dumb, dimwit, brainless or anything thing comes to his mind to discredit your logic! Also tries to corner you like you are a Hindu extremist or a mullah etc. You can see them repeating that Indians are breeding like pigs and it is a third world dump that everybody hates, and nobody respects them? Don’t get offended. That is their Mission statement. That is what they want to achieve.
2. This person provides arguments taken out of context and always points on .0001 percent negative ignoring the 99.9999 percent positive things. You can still see them remind us of the shortage of oxygen supplies during Covid while everybody knows no country in thr world was prepared for it. Also, the problem was exasperated due to the greed of the anti-India forces who were exploiting the crisis. In Delhi people like Amanatholla Khan)
2. He always tries to pit one group against the other – Hindus against Muslims, Gowda vs Lingayats or Brahmins or Dalits!! or Mysoreans Vs Tamils vs Keralites , or Northies vs South Indians !!That gives them the advantage that one of the groups may support. Everyone must remember they are using you! he is friend of nobody, Even Army or Supreme court Judges are even accused to suite their purpose.
3. Their purpose is to create Anarchy and no rule of law! They want to create a political entropy and distrust in everybody’s mind so that nothing gets done and everything is protested to a halt.
4. Another symptom is, if you show them the facts about China or Pakistan or even USA, they all swarm out of their hideout and start attacking you with various pseudo-names
5. In the new India, comparatively India is stable, and they are not feeling comfortable! They were even complained about India buying Russian oil while our EAM S.Jaishankar blasted their argument in multiple world platforms. Even Pakistan is praising our stand has infuriated them.
6.Their role model is Kanhia Kumar and the JNU gang who thinks Kashmir files was a propaganda and never happened and our Army is stationed in Kashmir for raping the Kashmiri women!
Now whenever you read any of the comments in this section, it will give you a good frame of reference as to who is coming from where and not get upset! We want India to progress in spite of such people and that is the true democracy!
SOM editors, Please don’t publish my comment if you find anything untruthful in this comment!
Hey Ashish Punekar
You sound like one of Shiv Sena thugs, reading the length of the rant you have posted.
You do not need to post a length of bull shit to make your opinion clear!
Why are you in Mysore anyway? Go back to the Shiv Sena territory-Pune or Mumbai.
Oh, Mumbai is taken over by Gujarathis!
Hey Ashish Punekar
You sound like one of Shiv Sena thugs, reading the length of the rant you have posted.
You do not need to post a length of bull shit to make your opinion clear!
Why are you in Mysore anyway? Go back to the Shiv Sena territory-Pune or Mumbai.
Oh, Mumbai is taken over by Gujarathis!