Will the 'Real' New Year Stand Up Please?
We just passed the Financial New Year on 1st April 2013.Ironic isn’t it that the Financial New Year starts on April fool’s day. J
But such a new year in the middle of the year instigated in me a question... Which is the actual New Year?
Let’s take an example of Amdocs:
We have following New Years:
ü 1st January – Gregorian New Year
ü 1st April – India Financial New Year
ü 2nd Week of September – Israel New Year
ü 1st October – Amdocs Financial New Year
ü Multiple Days – Indian New Year. **
I mentioned two ** because in India we have so many different states that each one has its own new year as under:
1) Ugadi -- New Year's Day in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
2) Gudi Padwa -- New Year's Day in Maharashtra
3) Maha vishuva Sankranti -- Oriya New Year
4) Puthandu -- New Year's Day in Tamil Nadu
5) Vishu -- New Year's Day in Kerala
6) Cheiraoba -- New Year's Day in Manipur
7) Navreh -- New Year's Day in Kashmir.
8) Bestu Varas -- New Year's Day for Gujaratis
9) Cheti Chand -- New Year's Day by Sindhis
10) Chaitti and Basoa/Bishu -- New Year Day in Himachal Pradesh.
11) Pohela Boishakh/Juir-Sheetal -- New Year Day in West Bengal
12) Baisakhi -- New Year Day in Punjab and Haryana.
13) Chaitra Pratipada -- New Year's Day in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh
Confusing isn’t it to see 13 new years and it becomes all the more interesting when people from one part of the country work in a different part.Not that we are complaining!!! Not only is it a chance to explore a different culture it’s an extra holiday too. J
It’s the unity in diversity which makes us enjoy each of the above festivals in the states respectively and celebrate the biggest of them all in Diwali with the festival of Light.
About the various festivals we have in India... we have one every two week and is a new topic altogether… Maybe I’ll write about it too on a lazy summer afternoon J
