Gokulashtami Celebration:

Gokulashtami is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna. It's also called by various other names like Krishna Janmashtami, Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham, Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanthi, Janmashtami...

The festival falls between August mid and September mid months of the Gregorian calendar.

Kolam in Tamil, also called Rangoli in the rest of India, is drawn using soaked rice ground to a fine paste and mixed with lot of water. A white cloth is used to soak the paste and make the drawing. Krishna’s feet is drawn from the front yard to the pooja room, indicating that the lord is entering the devotees home.

Some people if they have any kids in their house they will soak their feet in the paste & ask them to walk. But I don't have any kid in our house now ;-) [Will be there one next year :-)] hence I used my hand to draw the foot. If you keep your thumb on your palm & close all the the four fingers the part part of you forehand will look like baby foot. So just fold the fingers as mentioned & soak the bottom of your hand in the paste & press it in the floor.

This is what I'm trying to do here... :-)


Use left hand for left foot & right hand for right foot.

Then just put a small finger like line on the top of the impression that you kept. And now it will look like a beautiful baby foot as below...


So we have drawn it from the door to Pooja room as below..



After getting these things done. We have to get the stuffs that Krishna likes [old people told these, maybe they like these dishes ;-)] Vennai (Butter), Muruku, Seedai, Naavalpalam & it's called Jambul in English[Thanks to @octaped for letting me know.], etc.. We have to be in the fasting & praying from evening & at midnight we have to offer Pooja's then only we have to eat. But we become so lazy so we did the Pooja at 10PM & then had our food.

This is the first festival we are celebrating here at new house after marriage so it was fun & interesting. What a beautiful life we have & we are thankful to God for that...