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FESTIVALS OF INDIA

• A festival is a celebration of life. Festivals bring peace and joy to the masses and break the monotony of life.
• Festivals are at the heart of people's lives in India. Indian festivals are an integral part of Indian culture with special social and religious significances. One can enjoy a festival celebration in India every month as it is a secular country full of diversity in religion, language, culture and caste. People from each religion have their own cultural and traditional festivals while some festivals are celebrated by the people of all religions in the entire nation. Every festival has a social, religious and mythological value and is celebrated uniquely in different ways according to rituals, beliefs and its significant history.
• This book brings to you a few of the varied festivals celebrated by Indians the world over in a unique form. The children of Chitlewadi, unite to celebrate these festivals and partake of the story behind the different cultures and rituals. By celebrating each other's festivals they learn to forget all their differences and observe these festivals with a sense of togetherness. The festivals teach them how to forget their enmity, narrow mindedness and bitterness and join hands with each other for the sake of their religion and their society and for the sake of friendship and universal brotherhood.