{"id":72352,"date":"2025-11-07T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=72352"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:10:39","slug":"baliyatra-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/baliyatra-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Baliyatra Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Baliyatra Festival Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the President of India extended greetings on the occasion of the historic \u2018Baliyatra\u2019 festival and \u2018Boita Bandana\u2019 to all the countrymen.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Baliyatra Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is celebrated <\/span><b>annually in Cuttack, Odisha.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term Bali Jatra literally means \u2018<\/span><b>Voyage to Bali\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is celebrated every<\/span><b> year on Kartika Purnima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that marks the day that the seafaring traders departed for the Indonesian islands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Historical Significance of Baliyatra Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is organised every year to commemorate the <\/span><b>2,000-year-old maritime and cultural links<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between ancient Kalinga (today\u2019s Odisha) and Bali and other <\/span><b>South and Southeast Asian regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Celebration of Baliyatra Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The celebration features grand fairs, elaborate rides, food and dance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian <\/span><b>women perform \u2018Boita Bandana\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they make boats of paper or banana leaf (sholapith) with lighted lamps inside and float them down the Mahanadi as a part of the celebrations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bali Jatra celebrates the ingenuity and skill of those expert sailors who made Kalinga, one of the most prosperous empires of its time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/president-droupadi-murmu-extends-greetings-on-odishas-historic-baliyatra-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News On Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baliyatra Festival  is celebrated annually in Cuttack, Odisha. 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