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Here is your paragraph on Makara Sankranti: On the fourteenth of January, either in the month of Pausha or Magha, falls the winter solstice in the Indian calendrical reckoning. This is the day when the sun begins its northern course (Uttarayana), thus marking the beginning of what one might call the "waxing" half of the year. This half is auspicious [...]