Kite Festival at Necklace road

For three days, there is a Kite Festival is celebrated at the People’s Plaza, Necklace road. On the eve of Sankranthi Festival, every year Kite Festival is celebrated at the Necklace road located on the banks of the Hussain Sagar lake. Every year, the admirers of Kites from all over the world come here to participate in this Kite festival and the local citizens of Hyderabad take the pleasure of flying the kites along with these admirers with their variety designs of Kites.

In this year of 2009, A Voluntary Organization working for the Hearing impaired Children “ASHRAY-AKRUTI” is organizing the KITE Festival in order to support the hearing impaired children. The Inaugural ceremony of Kite Festival will start at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. This Kite Festival is long for three days and ends on the 15th of January at 10:00 pm. The Fans and admirers of Kites will participate in this event to make the Celebration even more brightful.

About Pongal

How kite flying and Pongal (or Makara Sankranthi) are related no on eknows for sure, but this is the day when you can see people across India flying kites, more so in Hyderabad. Kites of all sizes,colours, designs and patterns fight with each other for their place under the sun. Pongal marks the beginning of the harvest season and the sun’s journey to the ‘Tropic of cancer’.

Pongal (or Sankranthi) is one of the biggest festivals of South India and it is celebrated for Three continuous days. These days are known as Bhogi Festival, Sankranthi Festival and Kannuma Festival.

Nandi Film awards at LB Stadium

On Novemeber 16th 2008, at LalBahadoor Stadium, the ceremony of Nandi Film awards will be presented to the Film personalities in the evening from 5:30 pm onwards. All the neccessary arrangements were taken by the Government along with Cultural Tourism Departments and Film Industry.

Diwali Festive season starts

In Hyderabad, every street is setup with a Outlet stores of Fireworks and Crackers. At few a place you can find the children playing while burning the crackers. This is not unsual that children start playing with the burning of Crackers even before the Festival.
In market, we also able to find the Diyas(a bowl kind of thing but very small in size to lite the fire/Deepas) that bring the bright glory on the days of Deepavali.
Even the people have started planning to move to their near and dear ones staying at far places, by reserving their travel tickets in both Buses and Railway. And also in the coorporate and other companies we can find Employees applying for a leave on Monday to celebrate the Festival along with the entire family members on a continuous days followed by weekend holidays.