Piety, love, and happiness shone over the faces as contentment and smile. Every village is decorated with banners, garlands of flowers and grain tops. Aroma of sweet and curry dishes fills every house from one street to another. Children and all put on new new clothes, girls and ladies enjoy the silk and fine material in particular. Parties are arranged and family members and friends are invited to celebrate the joy of good harvest.
Family deity is worshipped and blessings are showered on young ones.
The festival is celebrated with gusto particularly in Punjab. The Sikhs celebrate it with overtones of their own religious reasons as Guru Gobind Singh had established the Khalsa Panth on this day. In Hindu culture supreme love between Radha and Krishna forms the focus of attention. Plays and dramas, dances and puppet shows are arranged depicting the spiritual level of love. Fairs and bazaars are full of enthusiastic gathering of people from many villages and places.