Tomorrow is Bhogi festival at our place

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Before any festival starts we need to clean our home. I did that today, 2 more rooms are left though. I am taking a bit of break, it was tiring. We will be celebrating a 3 day festival from tomorrow. First day is called Bhogi, second day is the main festival Makar Sankranthi and third day is Kanumu. A major activity early tomorrow morning is the burning of all things that are bad or of no use, a sort of cleansing ceremony. Before the sunrise, people make a bonfire with logs of wood, other solid fuels, and old wooden furniture. The disposal of unused items is symbolic of giving up old habits, attachments and material things and they are thrown into the sacrificial fire. We are going to do that early tomorrow morning. We have a few cardboard pieces to throw.