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April 14th - Sinhala and Hindu new year in Sri Lanka
Sinhala and Hindu new year usually called as 'aluth avurudda' in Sinhala, is one of the major cultural events in Sri Lanka. This is celebrated by Sinhalese and Tamil people in Sri Lanka since ancient period of time. In every year Sri Lankan new year usually falls on 13th or 14th of April according to the traditional calender and this year its on 14th. According to Sri Lankan astrology, where sun moves from house of Pieces (meena raashiya) to house of Aries (mesha raashiya) there we call its the dawn of a new year.
This period of time is the most happiest time for young as well as adults. Sri Lanka's main cultivation is paddy and paddy harvesting season also tend to coincide with the new year season. Even without having a calender we all can feel the forth coming new year as this is the season where good things happen in the environment. Trees are are full of fruits and flowers actually its like spring. And there is someone special who comes specially for the season and that is cuckoo bird (koel) which is the earliest sign of the forthcoming new year.
We Sri Lankans celebrate the new year in a ceremonial way. Lots of rituals and customs which are based on beleifs come from the past, are carried out. On this day all the Sinhalese and Tamil do things at the same time which is called auspicious time. This is the time for forgiving each other and sharing happiness. And the other special thing in this is food!!! The mother of the house has lots of things to do here. Various kinds of sweets and snacks are made such as kaum, aluwa, dodol, aasmi and kokis which is my favourit and lot more things. But among all, milk rice is the major food item here and it is called kiri bath in Sinhala.
Traditional games are played by young and adults together. There are lots of such games pancha keliya, ang adeema, pora pol gaseema and so many.
However when i was very young the new year was like this.kind of traditional but now i feel sorry for my nieces and nephews as they would see something different called new year. As similar as all the other things new year festival also becoming changed and has been a commercial thing. yet in the villages the real traditional new year still exists. And that's something to be happy.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
April 14, 2013
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mai hindi sikhna chahthi hun
mujhe hindi language sikh ne ki bahuth shoke hai.mujhe patha hai ke ek naya language sikh na ithni aasan nahi hai. phir bhi mai sikh na chaahthi hun.mujhe hindi samaj sakthe hai.lekin hindi me bath karna mushkil hai.
mujhe kafi kuch hindi words ka mathlab patha hai. lekin isi words ka sahi gramatical isthamal karana , mujhe malum nahi hai.Hindi bahuth sundar language hai.mujhe laga hai ke hindi is more musical than any other language.
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Known strangers
What is the best way to identify people? .Can anybody explain me that?I'm searching.Still searching a better way to understand, a better way to categorize them as good and bad.That will be more than enough, even though the strength of good and bad has a spectrum it self.Humans are a type of amazing creatures on earth.It is hard to believe how amazingly dynamic they are. What we see at a certain time is completely the opposite from another. Sometimes the closest one will break your heart and a stranger will heal the pain.Sometimes you may find a complete stranger within your loved ones.Anyhow every human being is unpredictable including me and you.Therefore to rely on people must need a better way of understanding. As long as there is no such a standard criteria to categorize them you must expect broken hearts and promises which are not kept,every moment of your life. At least suspecting everyone in every moment will give you a big relief. Because when that time comes, in which your loving one hurts you, it will not be a big issue as if you expected that to be happened.
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what is implied by the word "achche" here?
hum bahoth achche dosth hai.
is it for females or is there anything to do with tenses.
why cant I say achcha dosth hai
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(Can someone correct this for me.Thank you!) Live means dying for something.
Dying to achieve something in your life , means you are living the life. Once I had something like living my life.Good old days, which never comes back to me again.If you get easily what you want in your life, how can you die for it.If the destination of your life reaches you all along, what is the use of trying and dying.
when the life becomes easier definitely it becomes boring as well.If you want to experience the joy of achieving galls, you life must be a very hard one to live or else you must dream higher.
Having no dreams and galls means you are not alive, as you have no reason to die and try..
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will some body correct this for me please..(Difficult Days)
The hardest part of life is to get on with people whom you don't like to be with.I feel that I'm passing a such miserable stage of my life.This period might not last long and I will recall these days with humor in the future. But the thing is, no matter how hard we tried it is really difficult to deal with people who do not have the ability to make decisions for their own. And the most unfortunate thing is working under them, pretending they are correct, knowing what they do is wrong
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Hope for a better day
The monsoons has begun.Everything is wet and wet a..nd wet.I started the day with the rain, still it seems that it is not going to stop.
When I was a little girl I loved the rain very much.The smell of dust when the first rain drop touches the ground, it made a very pleasant experience.Playing with the rain drops, making paper boats and floating them in the rain water were my favourit things to do in the rain. As all other children of my age I too enjoyed the monsoons very much.But I will never have those happiness again as I too have started to hate the rain which ruins my plans of the day.Now I feel that i'm old enough to curse the rain instead of enjoying it.Monsoons are still the same,it comes and goes as those days but I have changed almost and have become feeling-less, as my schedule of the day does not let me be what i want to be..
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mera dosth
meri dosth ka naam aruni hai.hum dono ekh hi school mai padhthithi.high school ke baadh woh nursing sikh ne ke liye chali gayi aur mai medical laboratory science sikh ne ke liye university attend kiya. In our vacations, abhi bhi hum milthe hai aur school time ke bare me bath karenge.hum domo bahoth achcha dosth hai.
can somebody please do corrections here.i love to learn hindi.
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