A three-day festival ‘Raja Parba’ is being celebrated in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar. The festival celebrates the onset of monsoons and earth’s womanhood across the city. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended greetings to people of Odisha on the auspicious occasion. The festival which started as a tribal practice is based on the belief that Mother Earth menstruated for those three days and she is given a ceremonial bath on fourth day. A local said, 'It is a typical Odia festival for girls and women. To celebrate, we wear new clothes, go around with friends, eat traditional Odia food.'