Essays

The Baisakhi festival is celebrated all over Haryana and Punjab. This seasonal festival falls on i3th of April.

The people put on new clothes and prepare special food items on this day. A fair is held in every town in connection with the Baisakhi festival. A temporary bazaar is set up.

Sweets, toys, fruits and other items of household needs are sold there. The merry go-rounds attract ladies and children. The jugglers and acrobats show their feats. All class of the people visit the fair.

The farmers give a show of their country dance with the beating of the drum. There is great excitement and enthusiasm among the dancers.

The Baisakhi is the festival of their corn and crops. Even the elderly people and the ladies join the dancers forgetting their sense of shyness.

The saintly people sing hymns and deliver religious sermons. They do not care for worldy attachment.