Festival Diary
Every year, one of our novelties is to offer special custom boxes for Festivals and Holiday Specials.
UGADI
Ugadi is celebrated on Wednesday March 30th in 2025. It is Hindu New Year's Day for India's central peninsula states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka. Ugadi is also known as Yugadi, Samvatsaradi ('Start of the Year'), or Telugu New Year (after the Telugu ethnic people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana).It is a day-long festival with celebrations in the early morning when people wear new clothes after taking an oil bath. But the preparations begin a few days in advance with cleaning and decorating of the house.
Ugadi is also celebrated as Hindu New year by several other names by other ethnicities and communities in different regions of India. All of them celebrate on the same day in 2025 (March 30th), though the moment for rituals (sunrise) will vary by over an hour across the width of India.
- Gudi Padwa: Maharashtra and Goa (west India),
- Chaitra Sukhlad: some northern parts of India
- Cheti Chand: the Sindhi people in northwestern India
- Navreh: the Kashmiri people in northwestern India and disputed areas
- Sajibu Cheiraoba: the Meetei people in the state of Manipur.
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