Janmashtami - Revision history

Jyoti: /* Dahi Handi */

2021-09-06T21:01:49Z

‎Dahi Handi

Pdewan: /* SC bars minors from dahi handi events */

2017-08-08T19:40:55Z

‎SC bars minors from dahi handi events

Jyoti: /* SC bars minors from dahi handi events */

2016-12-04T08:43:28Z

‎SC bars minors from dahi handi events

Jyoti: /* Norms for ‘handi' human pyramids */

2016-09-20T21:00:03Z

‎Norms for ‘handi' human pyramids

Jyoti: /* SC bars minors from dahi handi events */

2016-09-20T20:41:15Z

‎SC bars minors from dahi handi events

Jyoti: /* SC bars minors from dahi handi events */

2016-09-09T19:57:23Z

‎SC bars minors from dahi handi events

Jyoti: /* Dahi handis' deadly accidents */

2016-09-09T19:55:06Z

‎Dahi handis' deadly accidents

Pdewan: /* 2016: 2 children seriously injured, 159 govindas injured */

2016-08-26T11:27:21Z

‎2016: 2 children seriously injured, 159 govindas injured

Pdewan: /* Dahi handi’s deadly accidents */

2016-08-26T11:26:46Z

‎Dahi handi’s deadly accidents

Pdewan: /* In Hindi-Urdu cinema */

2016-08-26T11:26:14Z

‎In Hindi-Urdu cinema

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	C an people below 18 years of age participate in forming human pyramids during `dahihandi' ritual on Janmasthami and can the height of the pyramid be over 20 feet? The Maharashtra government approached the apex court on Wednesday, seeking clarification on an earlier order. The SC had in an interim order in 2014 stayed a Bombay high court order, which had held that devotees below 18 couldn't take part in `dahihandi' and had capped the height of the pyramid at 20 feet. Confusion, however, arose as the SC did not set aside the high court order, giving an impression that its interim order was only for 2014 and the HC order was still valid.		C an people below 18 years of age participate in forming human pyramids during `dahihandi' ritual on Janmasthami and can the height of the pyramid be over 20 feet? The Maharashtra government approached the apex court on Wednesday, seeking clarification on an earlier order. The SC had in an interim order in 2014 stayed a Bombay high court order, which had held that devotees below 18 couldn't take part in `dahihandi' and had capped the height of the pyramid at 20 feet. Confusion, however, arose as the SC did not set aside the high court order, giving an impression that its interim order was only for 2014 and the HC order was still valid.
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		+	=Foods served on Janmashtami=
		+	==Oudh/ central India ==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL/2021/08/29&entity=Ar01812&sk=F3637FF8&mode=text Anoothi Vishal, August 29, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Growing up in Lucknow, my memories of Janmashtami are of homely celebrations, when we used all our creative skills and limited resources to make tableaux depicting the land of Braj and the stormy dark night when Lord Krishna was supposed to have been born at midnight on the ashtami of the monsoon month Shravan.
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		+	As we hunted for blue chalk or rangoli powder to depict the Yamuna in full spate and plucked greens from the garden to make the forest land alongside, a steady stream of festive goodies dotted the hours. This was fasting food that was more akin to feasting to mark the festival. In fact, Janmashtami was the only fast that children were supposed to keep, and that is perhaps because it was more joyful than austere, and the foods that were cooked were prized for their nutritive value in keeping with ritualistic foods around birth.
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		+	If you look at traditional Janmashtami food, both the fasting foods eaten in the day and the prasad, eaten after the fast has concluded with a midnight pooja, you will find strong parallels with postpartum rituals in Indian homes, when highly nutritious seeds, panjeeri with gond (gum), “warming” foods cooked in ghee and milk with mild and good-for-gut spices such as fennel and coriander seeds are fed to the new, lactating mother, in keeping with the tenets of Ayurveda. Many of these ingredients are today counted as superfoods and nutritionists regularly urge people to include them in their regular diets.
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		+	A distinct Janmashtami food tradition involves the use of seeds in the prasad offerings. Traditionally, in UP and Delhi, thals of chironjee, dried melon seeds, and makhane or lotus seeds are set by lightly roasting these in ghee and then crystallising with a thin chashni or sugar syrup. Wedges can be cut, stored and eaten long after the festival.
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		+	Chironjee is one of those lesser-known ingredients of ancient India that we seem to be forgetting. No equivalent exists globally, as is evident from the fact that there is no English name for this small brownred nut that the Mughal emperor Babur struggled to describe in his memoirs: “A thing between the walnut and the almond. Not bad!” he writes in Baburnama.
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		+	Chironjee is also an important ingredient used in the kheer cooked on Janmashtami for lunch for fasting devotees, who do not eat anna or grain. Instead of rice, chironjee and makhane or lotus seeds are cooked in milk. The kheer is further accented with dried figs or chuvara and raisins to give us the quintessential Janmashtami mewa ki kheer, not cooked at any other time of the year.
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		+	Lotus seeds or fox nuts of course have been enjoying a new bout of millennial popularity as a superfood full of calcium and magnesium to keep hunger at bay and help fashionable dieters feel full despite eating fewer calories. Fasting people perhaps found it similarly invaluable as a snack roasted in ghee.
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		+	Lotus in any case has been a ritualistically revered plant in India, with food historian KT Achaya noting that it was common practice in ancient Indian homes to grow lotus in water tanks meant for purifying drinking water, since the Buddha remarked that water meant for drinking should be clear, cool, shining like silver and with the smell of lotus.
		+	Another ingredient that has become fashionable with foodies seeking glutenfree alternatives to wheat flour is buckwheat or kuttu, from which fasting Indians have traditionally fashioned pooris and pakoris to eat with watery potato gravy or yoghurt when they eschewed grains. Kuttu, in fact, is a wonder ingredient even in a cuisine such as Japanese, used to make soba noodles, and lately it has been used by chefs and food companies for gluten-free snacks and pasta.
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		+	In villages of UP, Haryana and Rajasthan, a special Janmashtami tradition is the dhaniya ki panjeeri, an acquired taste for many. For the conventional atta panjeeri, whole wheat flour is roasted in ghee until its aroma fills the kitchen, and sugar, dried fruits, edible gum are added. To make this as a fasting food, roasted and ground coriander seeds replace the flour. But, Sneh Yadav of Tijara Farms gives another rationale for the use of coriander seeds. During the monsoon, coriander is supposed to cleanse the digestive system and keep diseases at bay. Many of our ritualistic foods obviously incorporate ingredients with seasonal therapeutic value in accordance as prescribed by Ayurveda.
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		+	Finally, ritualistic worship concludes with panchamrita, part of the prasad on Janmashtami. Made from five supposedly ambrosial (amrit) ingredientshoney, milk, curd, ghee and sugar — panchamrita is a modern-day equivalent of the ancient madhuparka (KT Achaya, The Illustrated Foods of India), offered as an auspicious drink on solemn occasions. Its making and ritualistic use is apparently set out in Ashvalayana Grihya-Sutra, Achaya mentions. Interestingly, this was also the first liquid to be placed on the lips of a newborn baby, in ancient India. Fitting, for a festival that celebrates a birth.
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	Refusing to heed the con tention that the tradition of Lord Krishna stealing butter as a young teenager inspires the “dahi-handi“ custom, the Supreme Court said that no one below 18 years of age can take part in human pyramids formed to celebrate Janmashtami, reports Amit Anand Choudhary. The SC revived a Bombay HC order placing an age restriction on participants to prevent possible injury to children, and a bench of Justices A R Dave and Nageswara Rao also set the height of the human pyramid at 20 feet.		Refusing to heed the con tention that the tradition of Lord Krishna stealing butter as a young teenager inspires the “dahi-handi“ custom, the Supreme Court said that no one below 18 years of age can take part in human pyramids formed to celebrate Janmashtami, reports Amit Anand Choudhary. The SC revived a Bombay HC order placing an age restriction on participants to prevent possible injury to children, and a bench of Justices A R Dave and Nageswara Rao also set the height of the human pyramid at 20 feet.
		+	===2017/ Children below 14 not allowed; no curbs on height: HC===
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=HC-bars-kids-below-14-from-dahi-handi-08082017013040 Rosy Sequeira \| HC bars kids below 14 from `dahi handi' \| Aug 08 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi)]
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		+	Children below 14 will not be allowed to participate in dahi handi, but there will be no curbs on the height of human pyramids formed to break the pots.
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		+	The Bombay HC declined to place restrictions on the age of Govindas.But it accepted the state gov ernment's statement that kids below 14 will not be allowed to participate. The court said it is for the state to enact laws in that respect. “... it would fall within the exclusive domain of the legislature,“ said a bench of Justices Bhushan Gavai and Makarand Karnik.

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 Sixteen mandals, including Jai Jawan Mandal and Shiv Sai Mandal, were booked by Thane police for violating SC orders. An MNS functionary too was booked.
-==SC bars minors from dahi handi events==
+==Ban on participation of children==
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=SC-bars-minors-from-dahi-handi-events-18082016001031 ''The Times of India''], Aug 18 2016

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 ==State-wise==
-===Norms for ‘handi' human pyramids===
+===Maharashtra: Norms for ‘handi' human pyramids===
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Govt-opposes-biz-giants-says-states-can-levy-04082016019035 ''The Times of India''], August 4, 2016

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	Refusing to heed the con tention that the tradition of Lord Krishna stealing butter as a young teenager inspires the “dahi-handi“ custom, the Supreme Court said that no one below 18 years of age can take part in human pyramids formed to celebrate Janmashtami, reports Amit Anand Choudhary. The SC revived a Bombay HC order placing an age restriction on participants to prevent possible injury to children, and a bench of Justices A R Dave and Nageswara Rao also set the height of the human pyramid at 20 feet.		Refusing to heed the con tention that the tradition of Lord Krishna stealing butter as a young teenager inspires the “dahi-handi“ custom, the Supreme Court said that no one below 18 years of age can take part in human pyramids formed to celebrate Janmashtami, reports Amit Anand Choudhary. The SC revived a Bombay HC order placing an age restriction on participants to prevent possible injury to children, and a bench of Justices A R Dave and Nageswara Rao also set the height of the human pyramid at 20 feet.
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		+	==State-wise==
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		+	===Norms for ‘handi' human pyramids===
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Govt-opposes-biz-giants-says-states-can-levy-04082016019035 ''The Times of India''], August 4, 2016
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		+	Amit Anand Chaudhary
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		+	'''Maha seeks `dahihandi' clarification'''
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		+	C an people below 18 years of age participate in forming human pyramids during `dahihandi' ritual on Janmasthami and can the height of the pyramid be over 20 feet? The Maharashtra government approached the apex court on Wednesday, seeking clarification on an earlier order. The SC had in an interim order in 2014 stayed a Bombay high court order, which had held that devotees below 18 couldn't take part in `dahihandi' and had capped the height of the pyramid at 20 feet. Confusion, however, arose as the SC did not set aside the high court order, giving an impression that its interim order was only for 2014 and the HC order was still valid.

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← Older revision		Revision as of 19:55, 9 September 2016
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	Sixteen mandals, including Jai Jawan Mandal and Shiv Sai Mandal, were booked by Thane police for violating SC orders. An MNS functionary too was booked.		Sixteen mandals, including Jai Jawan Mandal and Shiv Sai Mandal, were booked by Thane police for violating SC orders. An MNS functionary too was booked.
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		+	===SC bars minors from dahi handi events===
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=SC-bars-minors-from-dahi-handi-events-18082016001031 ''The Times of India''], Aug 18 2016
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		+	Refusing to heed the con tention that the tradition of Lord Krishna stealing butter as a young teenager inspires the “dahi-handi“ custom, the Supreme Court said that no one below 18 years of age can take part in human pyramids formed to celebrate Janmashtami, reports Amit Anand Choudhary. The SC revived a Bombay HC order placing an age restriction on participants to prevent possible injury to children, and a bench of Justices A R Dave and Nageswara Rao also set the height of the human pyramid at 20 feet.

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 ==Dahi handis' deadly accidents==
 ===2016: 2 children seriously injured, 159 govindas injured ===
-[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=2-kids-12-9-battle-for-life-as-26082016009035   Aug 26 2016 : The Times of India (Delhi) 2 kids, 12 & 9, battle for life as dahi handis defy SC
+[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=2-kids-12-9-battle-for-life-as-26082016009035   Aug 26 2016 : The Times of India (Delhi) 2 kids, 12 & 9, battle for life as dahi handis defy SC]
 Not only dahi handis, law too was broken in 2016 . Many mandals flouted the Supreme Court's curbs on height of human pyramids and participation of minors. Though Janmashtami celebrations in Mumbai were relatively lowkey, Thane, a hotbed of politically backed handi events, presented a sharp contrast, with multiple violations of the 20-foot limit on height and inclusion of children in human pyramids as set by the apex court.

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 ==In Hindi-Urdu cinema==
 [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/Dahi-Handi-Bollywood-films-interesting-plots-around-the-festival/photostory/48698346.cms  Dahi Handi: Bollywood films interesting plots around the festival, The Times of India, August 27, 2015]
 Dahi Handi: Bollywood films interesting plots around the festival
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 In Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie Aankhen, the idea of robbing a bank by blind people comes in his mind only after watching a few blind students of a school breaking dahi handi during this festival. After watching them he understands that blind people can be trained to do things like sighted people and that is when he employs three blind men – Vishwas (Kumar), a blind person who has the power of the sixth sense, Ilyaas (Rawal) and Arjun (Rampal) to loot a bank.
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