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The greens of Punjab, the haze azure of the limiting sky of the legendary Punjab teamed up with the ripened fruitfulness during the harvest season greets the forthcoming year with a discrete verve. Vaishakhi as the Punjab New Year occasion, has been termed is the festival of new life and new crop. The Punjabi New Year during the onset of spring time is the period of the yielding term in Punjab. The smell of the new crop at the endless fields, the yellow glitter of the morning sun and the reek of the nameless spring flowers thus entices the Punjabis to welcome the never experienced time with an immense cheer and optimism.
April 13th is the calendar day in Punjab when the populace welcomes the first day of the year with colossal vogue where tradition, rituals laced with oriental beliefs and of course the innate fun loving trait of the Punjabis offers the Punjab New Year carnival an individual vitality of its own class.
The true spirit of India fastened with all its enthusiasm and colonial hangover can be well felt in the Punjabi traditions of celebration of the New Year. Punjab New Year carnival is not only a day for greeting the forthcoming year but even little more. Vaishakhi however has an unfathomable liaison with the religious beliefs of the inhabitants too.
The very vista of the full and bounty fields waiting to experience the first day of the reap of the year, the exchanging of gifts and good wishes, the smell of the plush foods, the very rhythm of the colorful bhangra dance further embeds the Punjab New Year occasion with a matchless elocution.
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