It is karela in Hindi-and Urdu-speaking areas, क ा रल े ( karle ) in Marathi.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

As it is known by Persian-speaking and Urdu-speaking Muslims in Central and South Asia, Arba ' een is a Shia Muslim religious observation that occurs 40 days after the Day of Ashura, it is observed all over the world.

In Pakistan, the term ' Hindustani ' was also infrequently used to refer to Urdu-speaking people in Karachi and Hyderabad, Sindh, who migrated from India during the partition of 1947.

The Rohilla ( Pashto روهیله ) are a community of Urdu-speaking Pashtun Afghans also known as Pathan, historically found in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in North India.

The Saraiki community diffused when Saraiki-speaking Hindus migrated to the neighboring Indian states of Bikaner and Jaisalmer during Partition and were replaced by Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees from India.

The Urdu-speaking class and the Bengali nation was forcefully removed from the affairs of West-Pakistan.

In 1997, the MQM officially removed the term Muhajir ( which denotes the party's roots among Urdu-speaking Muslims ) from its name, and replaced it with Muttahida (" United ").

Muhajirs were the Urdu-speaking Muslims who migrated to Pakistan when the country emerged independent from British India in 1947.

The Sindhi and Urdu-speaking class in Sindh Province revolted against the One Unit policy.

Claiming to promote an inclusive national identity, Zia reached out to non-Bengali minorities such as the Santals, Garos, Manipuris and Chakmas, as well as the Urdu-speaking peoples of Bihari origin.

Shaukat Aziz was born to an Urdu-speaking family in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan on March 6, 1949.

Jehangir Karamat was born 20 February 1941 in Karachi, British Sindh, British Indian Empire to an Urdu-speaking class.

The operation left thousands of Urdu-speaking civilians dead.

Cornelius was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in British Indian Empire, to a Urdu-speaking Christian family, who raised in secular mode.

Alvin Robert Cornelius was born on May 8, 1903, in Agra, United Provinces of British Indian Empire, to a Christian Urdu-speaking class.

He was brought up on secular mode while living in secular Urdu-speaking Muslim community, and was a close friend of lawyer Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar.

One of the most prominent actresses of the golden era, Waheeda Rehman was born into a traditional Tamil, Urdu-speaking Muslim family in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, British India.

At the time he was serving in the Indian Expeditionary Forces as one of the few Urdu-speaking officers on the front.

The festival draws the best talents of India to its competitions, covering areas ranging from music and drama to literary games and quizzing.

In Minneapolis, Minnesota areas surrounding Loring Park, site of the local LGBT pride festival, are regarded as a " gay " neighborhood, though many gay and lesbian people have migrated to more residential neighborhoods such as Bryn Mawr and Whittier.

In some areas of Peru, the Quechuan people continue the tradition of the Supay dance at Mamacha Candicha which roughly translates as " The flame virgin " and is a festival with dancing lasting up to two weeks.

The area is well known for its strong commitment to the arts and music, featuring the See Change and See Celebrations festivals in the Jervis Bay and St Georges Basin areas, as well as the EscapeArtfest festival and Blessing of the Fleet in the Ulladulla area.

The festival hosts competitions in different areas for all ages.

The festival brings in a crowd much larger than the town's population from across Payne's Prairie in Gainesville and surrounding areas.

The annual parade caps off the Oblong " Fall Follies " fall festival and the event is attended each year by large crowds of people from all around the surrounding areas.

In certain areas of Ireland, particularly in Limerick, bonfires are also held on 30 April to celebrate the festival of Beltane.

The festival is widely acknowledged as the " biggest jazz festival in the world ", and has a strong reputation for showcasing many different areas of jazz from all eras.

Beppu offers a wide range of cultural experiences, from an annual international music festival, to the unabashed Hihokan Sex Museum, which nevertheless must follow the law and suspend a glass plate above ancient art with frosted areas censoring the overlarge genital depictions.

Dragonboat festival racing, like Duanwu, is observed and celebrated in many areas of east Asia with significant populations of ethnic Chinese living there e. g. Singapore, Malaysia, Riau Islands and Greater China.

In Southern India and most areas of the Punjab, buttermilk with added water, sugar and / or salt, asafoetida, and curry leaves is given at stalls in festival times.

Since Sui in different areas celebrate Duan at different times, this festival actually lasts for more than two months when festivities from various locations are combined together.

The purchase of encompassed all of the performance areas and much of the camping and parking area used for the annual festival ; the festival will continue to lease another that currently serve as additional parking and camping.

Winterlude is a very large festival of outdoor activities including public skating and skating displays, ice sculpture competitions, 60 miles ( 100k ) of Rideau Canal skating thru the gothic city, musical concerts, children's play areas, largest ice playground, an ' ice lounge ', and numerous off-site events.

In the rural and coastal areas, cock fights are held and is a prominent event of the festival.

By 1995, with 8, 000 women attending the 20th anniversary festival, longtime workers, artists, and returning audiences had popularized a lexicon of slang terms and code names for aspects of the Michigan experience: “ Porta-Janes ” ( rather than Porta-Johns ) for the freestanding toilets, “ Belly Bowl ” for the worker eating area backstage ( referencing a popular Ferron lyric ), “ Sano ” for the Sanitation crew, “ The Womb ” for the medical services tent, and “ chem-free ” for seating areas and camping spaces with no smoking, alcohol, drugs, or artificial fragrances.

During the festival, many world-class performers such as soloists and virtuosi, orchestras, dance companies, rock and jazz groups including Ray Charles, Paco de Lucia, Joan Baez, Martha Graham Dance Company, Tanita Tikaram, Jethro Tull, Leningrad Philarmonic Orchestra, Chris De Burgh, Sting, Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Garbarek, Red Army Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Chick Corea and Origin, New York City Ballet, Nigel Kennedy, Bryan Adams, God Is An Astronaut, James Brown, Elton John, Anathema, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mikhail Barishnikov and Josep Carreras have given recitals and performances at various venues in the city and its surrounding areas ; including the ancient theatres at Ephesus and Metropolis ( an ancient Ionian city situated near the town of Torbalı.

Originally it was a double-festival, called " Torhout-Werchter ", with two festival areas at different sites in Belgium: one in Werchter and one in Torhout.

The part of Motzstraße between Nollendorfplatz and Martin-Luther-Straße is considered as the centre of one of Berlin's gay areas and the location for the Berlin's Schwules Stadtfest, a gay street festival, which is held every June on the weekend before the Gay Pride celebrations ( CSD ) in Berlin.

The Jazz & Heritage Festival is owned by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, which uses the proceeds from the festival for year-round community development programs in the areas of education, economic development, and culture.

The festival celebrates the horses which once played an important role in the areas agriculture.