Shalin Mother Gifts

The modern Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May as a day to honor mothers and motherhood. In the UK and Ireland, it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday, celebrated in March/April.

In Europe there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church (the main church of the area). Children and young people who were "in service" (servants in richer households) were given a day off on that date so they could visit their families (or, originally, return to their "mother church). The children would pick wild flowers along the way to place them in the church or to give them to their mothers as gifts.

In India Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.

The festival of Pathare Prabhu is celebrated on the same day only in Bombay and the Southern part of India (concretely Konkan and the districts below the Western Ghats). The Pathare prabhu caste always celebrates this holiday.It is based on a legend about a mother whose children kept dying after only one year of living and it has a very remote origin. Although it's also called "Mother's Day", it is unrelated to the modern celebration, which is copied from the US (second Sunday of May) and is celebrated in the whole country.

Ancient tradition of Indian jewelry :

For centuries the fabled wealth of India, her gold and gems, brought to her land both merchants and invaders. The tradition of legendary riches went back to antiquity; 5000 years ago, Indian goldsmiths and lapidaries worked in an astonishing variety of materials and techniques; for 3000 years, India was the only known source of diamonds.

In late medieval times, the earliest armada to land on Indian shores was that of Vasco do Gama, Portuguese soldier of fortune, discoverer of the Renaissance route to India.How his eyes must have widened at his first sight of Zamorin, the ruler of Calicut, blazing with jewellery the like of which he had probably never seen- a gem-studded bracelet with diamond “ the thickness of a thumb”; a gold chain with rubies and an emerald set in its centre; ropes of pearls around his neck, each pearl the size of a hazel nut: his hair swept up into a top knot and adorned with strings of pearls which ended in a large pear-shaped pearl.His ears were pierced to receive many gold earrings, while beside him a page boy stood at the ready with an enormous gold spittoon.

The Indian subcontinent has the longest continuous legacy of Jewellery making anywhere since Ramayana and Mahabharata times. While Western traditions were heavily influenced by waxing and waning empires, India enjoyed a continuous development of art forms for some 5000 years. One of the first to start Jewellery making were the peoples of the Indus Valley Civilization (encompassing present-day Pakistan and northwest India). By 1500 BC the peoples of the Indus Valley were creating gold earrings and necklaces, bead necklaces and metallic bangles. Before 2100 BC, prior to the period when metals were widely used, the largest Jewellery trade in the Indus Valley region was the bead trade. Beads in the Indus Valley were made using simple techniques. First, a bead maker would need a rough stone, which would be bought from an eastern stone trader. The stone would then be placed into a hot oven where it would be heated until it turned deep red, a colour highly prized by people of the Indus Valley.

This love of jewellery permeated all sections of Indian society from the wealthiest to the humblest, as it does to this day; and the fashioning of ornaments was from materials as diverse as precious metals, gemstones, ivory, beads, feathers, cowrie shells, terracotta, berries and animal claws, to name just a few.

The Indian subcontinent has the longest continuous legacy of Jewellery making anywhere since Ramayana and Mahabharata times. While Western traditions were heavily influenced by waxing and waning empires, India enjoyed a continuous development of art forms for some 5000 years. These Indian jewelry can form the perfect gifts for mom present on Mother’s day celebration.

India Clothing

Traditional clothing in India greatly varies across different parts of the country and is influenced immensely by local culture, geography and climate. Popular styles of dress include draped garments such as sari for women and dhoti or lungi for men; in addition, stitched clothes such as churidar for women and kurta-pyjama and European-style trousers and shirts for men, are also popular.

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