A Report on Dahihandi Celebration
2:00PM, 27th August 2024.
JANMASTHAMI is a celebration of joy and facilitator of social oneness. Dahi Handi is an enactment of how Krishna, during his childhood, would steal butter. This story is the theme of numerous reliefs on temples across India, as well as literature and dance-drama repertoire, symbolizing the joyful innocence of children, that love and life’s play is the manifestation of god.
It is common practice for youth groups to celebrate the festival by participating in Dahi Handi, which involves hanging a clay pot, filled with buttermilk, at a significant height. Once hung, several youth groups compete to reach the pot by creating a human pyramid and breaking it open. The spilled contents are considered as prasada (celebratory offering). It is a public spectacle, cheered and welcomed as a community event.
Highlights of the function;
On 27/08/2024 Dahi Handi festival was celebrated with enthusiasm. Focusing on the overall development of students. Y. D. Mane Pharmacy College is continuously implementing various activities. The college had organised a Dahi Handi competition to cheer Govinda.
During the celebration the chief guests Mrs Shilpa Patil (Director of YDM Campus) inaugurated the function in the presence of Mr Sasmile (Prineipal of A. D. Mane School), Dr Sayed Asadullah (Principal of Y. D. Mane Institute of Pharmaey), Dr Sandeep Murtale (Incharge Principal of Y. D. Mane Institute of Pharmacy), teachers and non-teaching staff of the college as well as all students. Fourth-year boys and third-year girls took first place in the competition. In charge principal of the college Dr Sandeep Murtale congratulated the winners with a cash prize.
