When is tihar 2011

Kukur puja means Worshipping the Dogs. Meena celebrating via candlelight with brothers and sisters. Meena self worshipping at maha puja. We also celebrate Tihar at Ama Ghar. It was better than last year. This is the first time we celebrated Tihar at our new Ama Ghar. Shrawan uncle was with us to celebrate Tihar this year. I like Maha puja the most because we get to eat lots of different kinds of foods.

It was fun when we worshipped ourselves. At Ama Ghar we celebrate many festivals which is very fun. Ama Ghar helps us to go ahead in our life. One is my birth home and the other is Ama Ghar.

I love both the homes equally. Giving the celebration an et. Now we are on Telegram too. Follow us for updates. India Matters. All is not well in MVA? Congress to contest solo in BMC polls. COVID effect? Onset of diabetes, BP in per cent of patients in Karnataka. Tharoor says he was appalled by backlash over his birthday greetings to Advani. This year, Kukur Dog Tihar and Kaag Crow Tihar fell on the same day, while usually during this five-day festival crows are venerated on the first day and dogs on the second, Dipendra Adhikar, a temple priest, explained to EFE.

This date is also an important one for the devotees of Shiva, one of the most important gods of the Hindu pantheon, as they fast from dawn to dusk and end the day with a puja or ritual prayer. The Hindu festival of Tihar is one of the most important in the Himalayan country, where more than 80 percent of the population practice Hinduism as per the census.

As a part of the festivities, people bathe dogs, garland them with flowers and apply the traditional tika — a mark on the forehead with red powder and rice as a sign of blessing -, before offering them delicacies. Tihar, which bears certain similarities with the celebration of Diwali in neighboring India and is characterized by fireworks and partaking of sweets, kicks off with devotees feeding crows, considered messengers of the Yama, the god of death.

Cows, the most sacred animals in Hinduism and whose consumption is considered a sin and punishable by law, is set to be worshiped Thursday on what will be the third day of Tihar.