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# Sankranthi Subhakankshalu..
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/sankranthi-subhakankshalu/
- Published: 2008-01-15T05:03:32.000Z
- Updated: 2008-01-15T05:03:32.000Z
- Description: Sankranthi is the festival of harvest and is celebrated with much jest in India (esp Southern India). Back in my childhood, when we used to live...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Family, Photography, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

[Sankranthi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankranthi?ref=kudithipudi.org) is the festival of harvest and is celebrated with much jest in India (esp Southern India). Back in my childhood, when we used to live in a village, this festival denoted the start of harvesting the rice fields and we used to have a lot of fun lighting up “Bhoghi Mantalu”, which were essentially large bonfires of old stuff that needed to be discarded. And being a kid, everything in the house “qualified” to be discarded for me :).

Another thing that distinguished this festival was that all the household entrances were decorated with colored rice flour. Here’s a picture of a typical decoration

![](https://kudithipudi.org/content/images/farm1-static-flickr-com/183/382426376_8539133c25.jpg)

For the kids, it was also the festival of kites. And boy, some folks were pretty serious about their kites and the competitions. Here’s a nice picture showing the landscape littered with kites..

![](https://kudithipudi.org/content/images/farm2-static-flickr-com/1253/779118778_27f70bf653.jpg)

Wishing everyone a happy Sankranthi :).