
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptulla speaking during Navroze festival at Delhi Parsi Anjuman hall, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg on 18th of August 2014. For about three hundred years after landing at Sanjan, a town in Gujarat, Parsis are said to have lived in peace. By that time their numbers had greatly increased. Sanjan is believed to have been founded by Zoroastrian refugees who sought asylum in Gujarat. Those Zoroastrians, whose descendants are today known as the Parsis. From the time on, the New year Festival or Navroze is still celebrated by the community with much fervour marking the arrival of Parsi community in India. Parsi community in Delhi on Monday, the18th of August, welcomed a new year and celebrated Navroze, in accordance to the calendar followed by a sect of Zoroastrian
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