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14/01/2025

Makar Sankranti or Ghughutiya festival is celebrated with great gusto in the entire Kumaon region of Uttarakhand. This joyful festival falls on January 15 of each year. Though Makar Sankranti is observed by flying kites, taking a holy dip and donating and eating khichdi (a mixture of rice and lentils cooked together) but Uttarakhand has its unique way of celebrating the fest. This auspicious festival celebrates the welcoming of birds from winter migration. Uttarayani, which marks the beginning of the northward journey of the sun is noted as the returning period of the migratory birds to the distant hills of Uttarakhand.

To celebrate the festival with fervor and gaiety, the locals prepare deep-fried sweets called ghughute from sweetened flour and jaggery that are shaped like drums, pomegranates, knives, and swords. These sweets are then tied into a string and are garlanded around the children’s neck. The children adorn these necklaces and in order to attract the ‘kale kauve’ or the black crows, they chant “Kale kauwa kale, ghughuti mala khale” (O black crow, eat this garland made out of ghughute), offering them the sweets from their garland and seeking blessings from them.

काले कव्वे काले, घुगुती माला खा ले
Black crow (a symbol of ancestors/god) come, eat this garland of ‘ghughut’…

There is a local legend associated with the celebration of this festival which states that once upon a time there was a king who had a minister called Ghughutiya. The minister who was shrewd by nature conspired to murder the king and take control over his possession. But while executing his treacherous plan the evil minister failed miserably as a crow warned the king about his ill intentions thereby, gifting him the boon of life. After which the king punished the minister and asked the entire kingdom to prepare sweetmeats and delicacies to offer to the crow in respect of the aid he has given to him. Since then Ghughuti is celebrated with great.