{
  "id": 11941487,
  "title": "East Indian Community Celebrates Agera Harvest Festival, Reconnects With Agricultural Roots Across Gaothans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/east-indian-community-celebrates-agera-harvest-festival-reconnects",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-04T14:16:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/east-indian-community-celebrates-agera-harvest-festival-reconnects-with-agricultural-roots-across-gaothans"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The East Indian Roman Catholic community in Mumbai celebrated the traditional Agera harvest festival across the city's Gaothans on the first Sunday of October. Agera, derived from 'ager' meaning paddy field, is a thanksgiving to God for an abundant harvest. The festivities, which began with a procession from Villagers’ Cross, featured a bullock cart carrying freshly harvested paddy, a brass band, and a religious service in East Indian Marathi. The celebrations aimed to reconnect the community with their agricultural roots, recalling the village's past when rice cultivation was the principal occupation. Traditional food, songs, and exhibitions of old agricultural tools were also part of the events, organized under the leadership of Fr Anthony Fernandes, parish priest of St John the Evangelist Church.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}