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    Festivals are an important part of Indian culture and celebrate various traditions. Some festivals show gratitude to nature for harvests, like Nuakhai which thanks rice harvests. Pongal also celebrates harvests. Other festivals mark religious events, such as Janmashtami for Krishna's birth and Ganesh Chaturthi for Ganesha's birth. Festivals also celebrate phases of womanhood, like Raja Praba celebrating femininity and Menjal Neerattu Vizha acknowledging a girl's first period. Festivals unite people in celebrating their diverse cultural heritages across India's states.

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    Festivals are an important part of Indian culture and celebrate various traditions. Some festivals show gratitude to nature for harvests, like Nuakhai which thanks rice harvests. Pongal also celebrates harvests. Other festivals mark religious events, such as Janmashtami for Krishna's birth and Ganesh Chaturthi for Ganesha's birth. Festivals also celebrate phases of womanhood, like Raja Praba celebrating femininity and Menjal Neerattu Vizha acknowledging a girl's first period. Festivals unite people in celebrating their diverse cultural heritages across India's states.

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    Festivals are an important part of Indian culture and celebrate various traditions. Some festivals show gratitude to nature for harvests, like Nuakhai which thanks rice harvests. Pongal also celebrates harvests. Other festivals mark religious events, such as Janmashtami for Krishna's birth and Ganesh Chaturthi for Ganesha's birth. Festivals also celebrate phases of womanhood, like Raja Praba celebrating femininity and Menjal Neerattu Vizha acknowledging a girl's first period. Festivals unite people in celebrating their diverse cultural heritages across India's states.

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    Festivals are an important part of Indian culture and celebrate various traditions. Some festivals show gratitude to nature for harvests, like Nuakhai which thanks rice harvests. Pongal also celebrates harvests. Other festivals mark religious events, such as Janmashtami for Krishna's birth and Ganesh Chaturthi for Ganesha's birth. Festivals also celebrate phases of womanhood, like Raja Praba celebrating femininity and Menjal Neerattu Vizha acknowledging a girl's first period. Festivals unite people in celebrating their diverse cultural heritages across India's states.

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    TOPIC: THE FESTIVALS CELEBRATED IN INDIA

    I. Introduction
    A. Attention Getter: Festivals is one of the unique identities of culture, traditions
    and wonderful heritage. India is a country that represents
    different cultures, provinces, and languages nevertheless
    united by its festivals. Every state of India at least
    celebrates one festival which the purpose to celebrate is
    originated from historically. Have you ever wondered what’s
    very special about festivals in India? Speaking of India, it
    has the highest number of festivals celebrated among the
    Asia countries.

    B. Reason to listen: There are special purpose of celebrating certain types of


    festivals in India. It is much valuable to acknowledge about the
    speciality and the traditions of festivals in India.

    C. Credibility Statement:
    1. We have experienced some of the festivals celebrated in India.
    2. We have researched on various type of festivals that celebrated in
    India on the internet.
    3. We also have watched video clips and movies about traditions of
    festivals in India on YouTube.

    D. Preview of Main Points:


    1. First of all, we will discuss about the festivals of showing gratitude and
    respect to the mother nature.
    2. Next, we will discuss on the festivals of celebrating women and
    menstruation.
    3. Lastly, we will share about the festivals that celebrates the birth of
    God.
    II. Festival celebrations take place in all cultures, all over the globe and for
    lots of different reasons.

    A. Festivals to thank the mother nature for helping people to survive throughout the
    year.

    i. Festival of Nuakhai is a famous harvesting festival celebrated among the


    people of western Odisha.

    ii. The purpose of Nuakhai festival is to celebrate and show gratitude to newly harvested
    rice by the farmers by following all their cultures rituals.

    iii. Pongal is a harvest festival of South India, especially celebrated by Tamil community.

    iv. This multi-day festival is to show gratitude to the mother nature for giving food,
    prosperity and so on.

    B. Festivals that celebrated annually to mark the birth of God.


    i. Janmashtami is a festival that celebrate the birth (janma) of the god Krishna.

    ii. It is celebrated on the eighth (ashtami) day of the dark fortnight of the month of
    Bhadrapada (August–September).

    iii. Ganesh Chaturthi is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of Ganesha to earth from
    Mount Kailash with his mother Goddess Parvati.

    iv. It marks the birthday of the beloved elephant-headed Lord Ganesha.

    C. Festivals that celebrates women and menstruations for the transition from girlhood
    to womanhood.

    i. Raja Praba is a festival where they celebrate femininity and her ability of giving birth
    to another life.
    ii. It is believed that mother earth is going through menstruation for three day long.
    iii. The Manjal Neerattu Vizha is a turmeric bathing ceremony which acknowledges a girl
    who gets her first period.

    iv. Manjal Neerattu Vizha is celebrated by family and friends to recognize the girls' first
    stage of womanhood and this ceremony is known as samskara which performs an
    important role in Hindu life.

    III. Conclusion
    A. Review of Main Points:
    i. First, we discussed about the festivals of showing gratitude and respect
    towards mother nature.

    ii. Then, we discussed about the festivals of celebrating women and


    menstruation.

    iii. Lastly, we discussed about the festivals that celebrates the birth of God.

    B. Restate Thesis: Each and every festival celebrated in India have their own
    meaningful purposes. There are different types of festivals all over the world.
    Nevertheless, we chose to share about festivals celebrated in India which shows
    gratitude and respect towards mother nature, festivals that celebrate women and
    menstruation and lastly festivals of celebrating the birth of God.

    C. Closure: In conclusion, festivals fill our lives with colours and enthusiasm.
    Celebrating festivals keeps us closer to our religion and tradition followed by our
    ancestors. Furthermore, they strengthen the bonds of the community. Therefore,
    festivals are crucial and must be celebrated with passion.

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