{"id":15071,"date":"2023-09-21T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:53:42","slug":"nuakhai-juhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nuakhai-juhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuakhai Juhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nuakhai Juhar:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an important social festival of\u00a0<strong>Western Odisha<\/strong> and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand.<\/li>\n<li>The word\u00a0<strong>nua means new<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>khai means food.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> It is an agricultural festival which is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.<\/li>\n<li>It is observed on\u00a0<strong>the fifth day of the lunar fortnight<\/strong> of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhaadra (August\u2013September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the rituals ?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuakhai is understood to\u00a0<strong>have nine colours<\/strong> and as a consequence nine sets of rituals are followed as a prelude to the actual day of celebration.<\/li>\n<li>People offer the\u00a0<strong>newly harvested crop called Nabanha<\/strong> to their respective presiding deities.<\/li>\n<li>After offering the Nabanha, people relish different types of delicacies prepared from the newly harvested crop.<\/li>\n<li>The Nuakhai Juhar is a major ritual of the festival.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Bhadrapada?<\/h3>\n<p>Bhadrapada is a month in the Hindu lunar calendar, which is used for both religious and civil purposes in India and some other Hindu-majority countries. It typically falls in August or September of the Gregorian calendar, depending on the specific year because the Hindu calendar is lunar-based.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1959180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prime Minister greets people on Nuakhai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuakhai Juhar is an important social festival of Western Odisha and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}