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Basant Panchami
Basant Panchami is the most famous of the seasonal fairs. It heralds the
advent of spring. Fields of mustard present a unique and colourful sight
all over rural Punjab which looks like a newly wedded damsel resplendent
in her gorgeous golden yellow.
There is a spirit of gay abandon in the
air and the Punjabi is rightly infected with the spirit. His heart and
soul become one with nature and he expresses his elevated spirit in song
and dance. The Basant fair is held in many villages of the Punjab. People
put on yellow costumes appropriate to the season. One huge mass of mustard
blossom seems walking down to the fair. Kite-flying was a popular entertainment
of the people on this occasion. Often on the Basant Panchami day, if there
was a good breeze, one could see nothing but innumerable multi-colored
kites in the sky, swishing over in all directions.
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