After its introduction into India, the kite further evolved into the fighter kite known as the patang in India where thousands are flown every year on festivals such as Makar Sankranti.

In the western Indian state of Gujarat, an event of the Makar Sankranti festival is kozhi kettu, the rooster fight.

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

Haridwar hosted the Purna Kumbha mela from Makar Sankranti ( 14 January 2010 ) to Shakh Purnima Snan ( 28 April 2010 ).

This is specially used during Makar Sankranti for making a dessert called tilgul.

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A thousand years ago, Makar Sankranti was on December 31 and is now on January 14.

So while dates of all Hindu festivals keep changing as per the Gregorian calendar, the date of Makar Sankranti remains constant over a long term, 14 January.

Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the Hindu Calendar month of Magha.

Makar Sankranti is a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India.

The movement of the Sun from one zodiac sign into another is called Sankranti and as the Sun moves into the Capricorn zodiac known as Makar in Hindi, this occasion is named as Makar Sankranti in the Indian context.

Makar Sankranti, apart from a harvest festival is also regarded as the beginning of an auspicious phase in Indian culture.

All over the country, Makar Sankranti is observed with great fanfare.

* Makar Sankranti or Sankranti-Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

# From Makar Sankranti starts the ‘ day ’ of devatas ( Gods ), while dakshinayana ( southward movement of the sun ) is said to be the ‘ night ’ of devatas, so most of the auspicious things are done during this time.

He had the boon of Ichha-Mrityu ( death at his will ) from his father, so he kept lying on the bed of arrows till this day and then left his mortal coil on Makar Sankranti day.

# After giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru ( world teacher ) on Makar Sankranti Day 1957.

Makar Sankranti is one of the most auspicious days for the Hindus and is celebrated in almost all parts of India in myriad cultural forms, with great devotion.

On 14 January, it is celebrated as Makar Sankranti or Sakraat or KHICHDI ( in local dialects ). As in other parts of country, people take bath in rivers and ponds and feast upon seasonal delicacies as a celebration of good harvest.

Uttarayan, as Makar Sankranti is called in Gujarati, is a major festival in the state of Gujarat which lasts for two days.

Lyndsay, the Makar, is not behind his fellow-poets in acknowledgment to Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Makar Wharf is a major port-of-call in international shipping, and one of the most important ports in Mindanao.

When Jupiter and the sun are in the zodiac sign Leo ( Simha Rashi ) it is held in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik ; when the sun is in Aries ( Mesha Rashi ) it is celebrated at Haridwar ; when Jupiter is in Taurus ( Vrishabha Rashi ) and the sun is in Capricorn ( Makar Rashi ) Kumbha Mela is celebrated at Prayag ; and Jupiter and the sun are in Scorpio ( Vrishchik Rashi ) the Mela is celebrated at Ujjain.

# According to the Puranas, on this day Surya ( Sun ) visits the house of his son Shani ( Saturn ), who is the lord of the Makar rashi ( Zodiac Capricorn ).

According to the Hindu religious texts, on the day of Uttarayani the sun enters the Zodiacal sign of ' Makar ' ( Capricon ) from the Zodiacal sign of the Kark ( Cancer ), i. e. from this day onwards the sun becomes ' Uttarayan ' or it starts moving to the north.

According to the Hindu religious texts, on the day of Uttarayani also called Ghughuti ( घ ु घ ु त ि) in Kumaon, the sun enters the Zodiacal sign of ' Makar ' ( Capricon ) from the Zodiacal sign of the Kark ( Cancer ), i. e. from this day onwards the sun becomes ' Uttarayan ' or it starts moving to the north.

* Makar Sankranti and the Hindu Samaj

With the formulation of the Bikrami calendar, Lohri has been twinned with the Hindu winter solstice festival of Makar Sankranti which relates to the Sun's entry into the new sign, Makar.

Hindus pray to the Hindu Sun God, Ravi on Makar Sankranti which is meant to be celebrated on winter solstice day.

Major Hindu festivals of India include Diwali, Dussehra or Daserra, Holi, Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Mahashivratri, Ugadi, Navratri, Ramanavami, Baisakhi, Onam, Rathayatra, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Krishna Janmastami.

* Shree Kripaluji Maharaj ( 1922-Present ): After giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru ( world teacher ) on Makar Sankranti Day, January 14th, 1957.

On Makar Sankranti people give Khichadi ( a mixture of pulses and rice ) in charity, take ceremonial dips in holy rivers, participate in the Uttarayani fairs and celebrate the festival of Ghughutia or Kale Kauva.

The harvest festival of Pongal / Makar Sankranti is celebrated on this month.

Makar Sankranti-is a bathing festival which falls either on January 13 or 14th when people take bath in the Alaknanda and big fairs ( Uttaraini ) are held at Karnprayag and Nandprayag.

In 1912, the Italian composer Giacomo Orefice based his opera Radda on the character of Radda from Makar Chudra.

These exchanged and eaten on Makar Sankranti in Maharashtra

In Maharashtra on the Makar Sankranti ( मकर स ं क ् र ा न ् त ि) day people exchange multi-colored halwa ( sugar granules coated in sugar syrup ) and til-gul ladoos ( sweetmeats made from sesame seeds and jaggery ).

In Punjab where December and January are the coldest months of the year, huge bonfires are lit on the eve of Makar Sankranti and is celebrated as Lohri.

Many Melas or fairs are held on Makar Sankranti the most famous being the Kumbh Mela, held every 12 years at one of four holy locations, namely Haridwar, Prayag ( Allahabad ), Ujjain and Nashik.

In the village of Jaydev Kenduli, a Mela ( fair ) is organized in memory of the poet Jayadeva on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in the month of Poush.

Every year on the immediately preceding Sunday of Makar Sankranti ( i. e. the Sunday just before the date when the Sun is about to enter the sign of Capricorn as per Indian Astrological / Sidereal calendar ), Swaadhyaaya Bhavan Ashram ( based at Mahalaxmi Nagar, Maheshwar ) organizes Mahaamrityunjaya Rath Yaatraa in the town of Maheshwar.

Ackoff married Alexandra Makar on July 17, 1949.

Makar and Varvara are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments.

Makar and Varvara exchange letters back and forth attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for the latter.