Nuakhai Juhar

On 28 August 2025, Nuakhai festival was celebrated across Odisha.

  • Nuakhai, also called 'Nuakhai Parab', is an agricultural festival observed to welcome the new rice of the season.
  • The word 'nua' means 'new' and 'khai' means 'food', so the name means the farmers are in possession of the newly harvested rice.
  • Farmers offer the first produce from their lands to Goddess Samaleswari, the famous ‘Mother Goddess’ of Sambalpur district of Odisha.
  • It is observed on panchami tithi (the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhadraba (August-September), the day after Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
  • This festival has ....
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