Friends the things I had discussed with you all.. is related to the culture of J&K and the culture of northern India ..How the culture is prevailing and differentiated from each other.And every region has its specialty , some are popular with their music and dance while others are popular with their festivals .Some are with art and craft while others are popular with traditional dresses…
The purpose of writing blogs about J&K was just to give you a glimpse about whole J&K in one single blog.I’m not much experienced person but what I have observed and the places which I have seen.I did write on that part only according to my knowledge and search . There is nothing which I personally wanted to highlight or comment..if you found such objectionable material in my blogs I do apologize for it… thanks reading my blogs and all your comments …I’ll update it or edit it with something exciting which I forgotten to discuss or which I found something new ……

Culture.... culture... and culture all about its influences and impact.Whatever we would like to do become our culture and now a days I guess culture differs from person to person too.So what if u are from J&K,Punjab,Haryana,Utranchal,Himach Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (northern region).The states have their own cultures but being grown up in at your places you have made your own culture of it .Now hardly one can be differentiated on the basis of one’s background culture.Everyone has made its own culture by adapting the nearby cultures or those cultures which influences them or which have an impact over them.
J&K people too have change their own perceptions and cultures.People move out to different places and adapting different culture like what they used to eat a lot in their own state and after adapting other culture they start disliking the thing to be get eaten.
Talking an example of mah own “I always talk to my friends in our regional language but presently I’m staying in Punjab and here I talk in Punjabi . And when I go back to home for holidays I used to speak in Punjabi” here u can say that I have an impact of the state and I’m also influenced by the language and started using it.

J&K a highlighted issues spot


The valley, three different regions, three different communities of people and each community is dominant among their regions. Haaaah!!! Great….here the reason for issues is somewhere related to culture only. People have different culture from different region and a lot many controversies over it. People definitely want to realize people from other region that they are much more dominant and traditional. If different people from the three different cultures meet together make sure an issue is going to be built up!!! The laughter and gestures exchanges over culture soon and easily converted to fights and make big issues of it.

People found here are much aggressive. Instead of welcoming someone’s thoughts on his or her culture. The people start taking it very personally and couldn’t keep up without vomiting on others. If the people starts taking it as an addition to their knowledge about culture and stop taking it personally.
Not take all above in negative sense its juz what I perceived being a part of J&K.

""" culture of J&K is different"""

How J&K is different state among all other states of the northern region . Firstly you people know that J&K is made up of three regions. And that is what which make it different. All the states around have one main culture which represent their state but J&K has three different culture to show and follow.However it is so difficult to maintain the status bah being a single state with three different regions.Because when it comes to show the culture of the State either at national level or inter -northern region level which particular culture from which region should be shown.None of the region could be denied to come forward on the basis of culture .And to represent the State all the three cultural performances should be there.

Because in the valley people from different religion live together and have a different personality .Due to conflict between the regions , which region is much dominant. It is difficult to maintain the balance without conflicts.The culture of the regions in J&K have given equal importance.Which one region celebrates may not be celebrated bah other regions.That is why J&K has regional holidays.Kashmir celebrates all Muslim community festivals and Jammu follow all Hindu festivals where as Ladakhi’s have their own.”””So, wasn’t it truly said that culture of J&K is different”””

“Culture is similar though different “

True to say that though culture is totally different from state to state. As we already talked about the little differences in the culture existing in the states of Northern region. Though different but do similar with one another state. If the Festivals have given the importance in the states there would be some festivals rather than (local festivals restricted to local region only) which each state celebrates and enjoys .May be the ways would be different but thoughts may resemble.
Like if one region is celebrating Diwali the way they do worship to God and to which God and the food they make is of their own choice but different from other regions how they do worship to their God and make food what they wish.The way is different but the thought is similar that it’s a festival we have to worship God and have to make special food.
“These ways make culture seems different but the thoughts in mind make culture seems similar”

glimpse from thr culture of uttaranchal

The language spoken by people here is Garhawlas or Kumaon. Other important language of the state are Jaunsari and Bhotiya while Hindi seems to be taking the primary lead. The people and lifestyle of Uttaranchal, can be catagorized as primitive. Though certain cities have seen development, but most of the areas of the state has still remain undiscovered. Uttaranchal can be divided into Kol-Doms, Khasi Rajput, Khasi Brahmin, immigrant Rajput, migrant Brahmin and Bhotias. The prime occupation of people of Uttaranchal is agriculture. Festivals here celebrated are Basant Panchmi , Harela and Bhaitauli, Olgia, Bal Savitri and Ganga Dussehra .And the famous festivals are Jauljibi and Thal –Uttarayani fair, Nanda Devi Fair .Chounphula and Jhumelia dances and the Barada Nati folk dance is performed by men and women attired in colorful costumes during special occasions and religious festivals. The Pandava dance, performed during Dusshera and Diwali, portrays tales from Mahabharata comes under the dance culture of the state. Chhopati are love songs sung as questions and answers between men and women. Chounphula and Jhumeila are sung from the time of Basant Panchami that stretches till Sankranti or Baisakhi. Basanti folk songs in Uttaranchal are sung to welcome the Spring season.
The Basant season has given much more importance in Uttranchal. The folk music and dance is based on Basant Panchmi. And the other local festivals have given a lot more importance than that of national festivals. Here language is totally differs from J&K,Punjab,U.P,Haryana and Himachal Pradesh but people know hindi too.

glimpse from the state Uttar Pradesh...

Painting is common here in Uttar Pradesh and contributed a lot in the heritage of the country, India. With cave paintings in Sonbhadra and Chitrakoot depicting scenes of war, dances, festivals and hunting etc. shows that the painting culture is the oldest art form of the people living in Uttar Pradesh. One of the important crafts of Uttar Pradesh is chikankari, which is traditional hand embroidery. This form of handicrafts is mainly practiced in Lucknow. It is done on fabrics like chiffon, doruya, muslin, organza, organdie and silk. Chikan saris and kurtas make the perfect summer collections. Uttar Pradesh is the place where one of the six foremost classical dances of India is existing and that is “Kathak”. Language of Uttar Pradesh is the standard or khari boli of Hindi. However, several regional dialects of Hindi are also spoken in different places of the state, among which Bhojpuri, Braj, Awadhi, Bahgeli and Bundeli are fairly common. In fact, Bhojpuri is the second most popular language of the state after standard Hindi. Hindi and its various dialects are spoken by approximately 90 percent of the population of the state. Urdu is also spoken by a large population in the state especially in lucknow . The traditional dress of women in Uttar Pradesh are “sarees”. Salwars, a long skirt reaching below the knees, along with pyjamas or lungis, is also a common costume in the state. The male among the Muslim population of Uttar Pradesh prefer the kurta or a shirt as the upper garment, complemented by a lungi or pyjama as the lower garment. Sometimes, the kurta is substituted by a sherwani, a long coat worn in formal occasions. Additionally, they wear a cap or a turban. Muslim women wear pyjamas, kurtas and duppattas.
Writing for different cultures prevailing in northern states I found mostly a little difference come up with traditional dresses, music and dance, art and craft and other stuffs.Which help a lot to states to make a hallmark for their region or state. And U.P added a new art and that is painting other than other states.