Rosh Hashanah is a New Year Day of the Jews, inaugurated by the kindling of festive lights in house and synagogues. Cheti Chand is the New Year celebrated by the Sindhis. It is celebrated on the second day of Chet month. The Tamilian New Year, Varushapirappu is known to be a very auspicious day of the year among the Tamils. Puthandu is a New Year festival in Tamil Nadu. This festival is celebrated in the mid of April with the all the traditional customs of Tamil Nadu. Gudi Padwa is one of the four most auspicious days in the year, a day of great festivity and rejoicing which is believed to herald the commencement of the harvest season and also as the day when the entire world was created by Lord Brahma. Pohela Boishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar, considered auspicious and celebrated with much pomp and glory by the Bengali people. The festival of Ugadi symbolises the beginning of the Kannada New Year. |