Silk City Kalinga Vysyas celebrated the Bhogi festival here on Friday. Bhogi is a festival observed in the southern India as the first day of harvest festival Pongal.
It is the day of discarding everything old and bringing in new fortune and property to lives.
The festival is celebrated during Makara Sankarnti from which day the Sun changes its position from south to north hemisphere. Bhogi is the day dedicated to lord Indra, the god of rains and clouds. Farmers worship Indra to seek his blessings for a good harvest.