Makar Sankranti Poush Parvan Festival
14-01-2025 Happy Makar Sankranti Poush Parvan is a Bengali traditional culture.
One of the thirteen festivals of the twelve months of Bengal. This Poush Parvan festival has created a lot of excitement for ages, especially in the rural areas of Tripura.
It is said that this Poush Sankranti festival is one of the holders and carriers of Bengali culture.
Tradition of old age homes in this Poush Sankranti has been going on since ancient times.
However, with the evolution of time and the touch of modernity, this traditional culture is gradually disappearing. However, in some places, these old age homes can still be seen in different places in Udaipur subdivision.
Even today, people from eight to eighty-one percent of this old age celebrate Poush Sankranti in front of this old age home.
Some time ago, the enthusiasm of building houses by collecting bamboo could be seen. And the traditional custom of lighting a fire in the house of an old woman on the night before the festival, after the evening feast, has been cherished for a long time.
Process of Sankranti making an old woman’s house:
Traditionally, a few days before the celebration of Paush Sankranti, the people of the village are busy collecting materials for making an old woman’s house. The old woman’s house is built by collecting straw, hay, and straw from the fields.
The process of making a puli on the back starts from that morning, women celebrate Paush Parvan festival in every house, worship Thakur Puja, worshiping Suryadev on their backs, etc.
Some of the towns in the Udaipur area where this custom is still practiced include Tepania under R.K. Pur Vidhan Sabha constituency, Tepania Debnath Para area and various surrounding rural areas and some hilly suburbs where some people can still be seen enjoying this old woman’s house.
Everyone’s hope is that no matter how much we maintain modern culture. No matter how far we advance on the path of modernity, the tradition of celebrating Makar Sankranti in traditional village homes will continue to be cherished over time.
