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Here is your short paragraph on Halashashti: The festival occurs in the month of Bhadrapad (August-September) and is performed by the farmers and peasants. Every year on this day, they worship 'Hala' (i.e. the plough), the implement used for ploughing the fields. The iron blade of the plough is decorated by applying powdered rice and turmeric and then decorated with [...]