Republic Day parade and family traditions…!

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

Hey…!

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Well it’s a Republic Day and I hope it’s a day off for you..

At least the people who are living here in India and you can peacefully wake up and not be bothered to worry about any additional work that is pushed onto you…!

And I just found out the Republic Day parades that I have been watching on YouTube which were supposedly going in live, on various news channels were previous years and it was supposed to start at 9:30 which I’m watching right now…!

With a blessing that helps me cope with things in my life…!

Coming back to the prompt

Our family traditions…!

We enjoy parade each year sitting within the comfort of our homes;

Well we plan on visiting the next year in person to watch the parade, let’s make that happen coming year again…!

One of the traditions that we have which is akin to Halloween where generally people outside India carve a pumpkin;

But we have a pot of clay that we got made in which we usually keep a Diya and roam around our house in a way to ward off evil forces and spirits…!

It is called Gad-bade and I usually celebrated in Punjab and northern regions of India…!

Its history is said to be that the elders of the village used to put coins in the pot as a token of gift and gratitude towards the coming generations and a way to keep on the traditions alive…!

Another one would be a get together that we do once every winter in our family where we call our extended families and we gather at someone’s place and have a full blown party,

As a token of the fact that all of us are in good health and celebrate success of the year that has passed and welcome the new one with open arms…!

That would conclude today’s prompt and it made me think…!

We need to have more traditions…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍