Editing Bonfire (section)

===India===
In India particularly in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], people gather around a bonfire and eat peanuts and sweets during the festival of [[Lohri]] to celebrate the winter solstice which occurred during the Indian month of Magh. People have bonfires on communal land. If there has been a recent wedding or a new born in the family, people will have a bonfire outside their house to celebrate this event. The festival falls in the second week of January every year. In the northeastern state of [[Assam]], the harvest festival of [[Bhogali Bihu]] is celebrated to mark the end of the [[harvest season]] in mid-January. In southern India, particularly in [[Andhra Pradesh]], Tamil Nadu and [[Mumbai]], the Bhogi Festival is celebrated on the last day of Maarkali, which is also the first day of the farming festival of [[Pongal (festival)|Pongal]]. People collect unwanted items from their houses and throw them into a bonfire to celebrate. During the ten days of [[Vijayadashami]], effigies of [[Ravana]], his brother [[Kumbhakarna]] and son [[Meghanad]] are erected and burnt by enthusiastic youths at sunset. Traditionally a bonfire on the day of [[Holi]] marks the symbolic annihilation of [[Holika]] the [[demoness]] as described above.<ref name=ori>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/holi_1.shtml Origins of Holi] ''[[BBC]]''.</ref>