Click to play videoNew Delhi: Holy prayers marking the end of month long fasting, the Sunday morning Namaz sounded the beginning of Eid celebrations across North India.
The bazaars (markets) of Delhi were packed with people doing last minute shopping. And the crowd came together to enjoy the delights of the day - Sewaiyan and Biryani.
“After this is over, I'll go home. I enjoy doing this,” says a shopkeeper, Amjad Ali.
Lucknow too celebrated this day with food and festivities. But celebrations in this country are incomplete without the political angle. So leaders were out there to win the Muslim hearts.
But for one city, it was a special Eid-ul-Fitr this year – Srinagar where the Idgah Maidan created history by opening to the public after 20 years.
But in Ajmer the situation was very different. The shadow of the blasts loomed large on celebrations, which were mostly low key.
“We did not celebrate Eid, in memory of those killed in the blast at the shrine,” says a drummer at the Ajmer Dargah, Shamim Ahmed.
While fear and devotion mingled, in Ajmer dampening the festivities a bit, the rest of the country celebrated this joyous occasion in the true spirit of love and brotherhood which one hopes will last not just on this day, but throughout the year.
(With inputs from Swati Vasishta in Ajmer and Shamim Meraj in Srinagar)
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