Happy New Year 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 9:45PM Yes.. it is the New year for south Indians and we had the usual good eats and spent quality time with family.
We want to wish everyone a wonderful Tamil New Year, Ugadi, Vishu and anything else the New Year goes by in different parts of India.
This year is named "vijaya" for Victory. Hope truth and righteousness emerge victorious this year!
Here's to 2013 from the Traveling Naryanans.
;)
Learned earlier this year that folks in the west used to celebrate their New Year around April 1st as well a long time ago.. then they changed it to Jan 1st. In order to discredit some folks who refused to change the New Year from first week of April to January, they called April 1st "April Fools day".. don't know if this is true, but thought of sharing this interesting tid bit.
Apparently the atheist government in Tamil Nadu tried to move the New Years day to coincide with the Harvest Festival and that is being ignored for now. We live in a funny world with all these changes, daylight savings time etc.. Don't know how things will change in another 30 years.
Hoping it is for the better! Happy 2013!
Reader Comments (2)
minor quibble: the Tamil calendar is also a solar calendar, which is why new year's day is always Apr. 13/14/15 (the leap years occur differently). Deepavali and Janmashtami, for example, are on a lunar calendar.
Lak,
thanks for pointing that out.
:)