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New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): Lohri, the harvest festival celebrated on January 13 every year, marks the end of winter and the time to harvest rabi crops. As the festival is around the corner, enthusiastic people across the country are gearing up to lit the bonfire, whirl around it singing Punjabi folk songs, and popping sesame seeds, popcorn, jaggery, and rewaris. But, before you wish a happy Lohri to your close ones, here are the significance and interesting facts about the joyous festival.
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Are the National Democratic Alliance government and the farmers unions nearing an agreement on the three farm laws?
It may be too soon to say this, but there are some signs of a thaw that were evident in the meeting that took place between Union ministers and farmers representatives.
This piece will look at what happened in the run-up to the meeting and the meeting itself and also examine whether an agreement is possible or not when the next meeting is held on 4 January.
A Cordial Meeting
Even before the meeting between the farm unions and the Centre began on Wednesday 30 December, Union Minister Som Parkash said that the meeting will be decisive and that the government wants farmers to celebrate the new year in their homes .
Gurdwaras to volunteer groups to NGOs: Who’s feeding protesters at the borders
From farmers of a particular village cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public, to large-scale langars sewa through feeding runs throughout the protests. Updated: December 20, 2020 8:00:06 am
Langars at Singhu; farmers can be seen cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public while several large-scale langars have
also come up.(Abhinav Saha)
Along the several-kilometres-long stretches of tractors and protesters at Singhu and Tikri, the site of food being prepared and served is ubiquitous. From farmers of a particular village cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public, to large-scale langars sewa through feeding runs throughout the protests. And some of the largest langars give an idea of the organisations involved.
Exercise, reading and sewa , farmers crack code of protest life miles from home
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When they are not raising slogans demanding a repeal of the new farm laws or listening to speeches, the protesters, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, are familiarising themselves with their new way of life at Delhi s gateways.
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New Delhi: Sewa at community kitchens, attending religious discourses, reading newspapers and exercising. Twenty days on, life has settled into a routine for protesting farmers who are devising ways to crack the code of living through an agitation with no immediate end in sight.