Navanna

Navanna, a harvest festival of tribal North India, is celebrated in November-December, normally on the close of the Diwali festival. The day of the festival is usually fixed only after the ripening of the corns.

On this occasion, cows are fed with cakes prepared from fresh corn. The people, who are on a fast, have a feast immediately after this ritual. Navanna is a secular-festival and whole villages usually celebrate it together. With the rapid movement away from the agrarian social set up, Navanna is disappearing from the Indian society.