Makar Sankranti: The Greatest Festival on Earth - Koenraad Elst -

Описание: In this #IndicTalk, Belgian Indologist Koenraad Elst explains what Makar Sankranti is and how Hindu festivals are shamed and slandered by Christian and anti-Hindu lobbies. Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival marking the entry of the Sun into the constellation of Makar (Capricorn). However, in modern anti-Hindu propaganda Makar Sankranti is a target of festival shaming, one facet of the bigger phenomenon of Hindu Shaming. According to this strategy, some faults are found with all Hindu festivals and they are slandered for one reason or the other.

It is said that on Makar Sankranti many birds die due to the kite flying which is a part of the festival and so it should not be celebrated. Dr. Elst says that the world over every culture has the kite flying festival almost at the same time and no one bothers about those festivals. While festivals and traditions and even fashions of the Christian countries are celebrated as hip, Hindu festivals are castigated as un-ecological, dirty, unhygienic, repressive and regressive and a plea is made to stop celebrating them.

Elst warns that it is necessary to understand this anti-Hindu game and celebrate Makar Sankranti as it should be, with fanfare, and yes, with kite flying!

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