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Guru Nanak Could we really call Guru Nanak the founder of Sikhism... The origin of the word  is  that a  founder  originally meant a person who forges steel; similarly, the  founder  of a company  is  forging the new entity.   Well, he did  carry a new message to preach and to foster and found a new entity, in the much distraught world, brought a new message for mankind, He  was known for his political, social and spiritual beliefs which were based on love, equality, fraternity and virtue Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was one of the greatest religious innovators of all time and the founder of the Sikh religion. Guru Nanak's birthday is celebrated by Sikhs on April 14th by the Nanakshahi Calendar. (The date according to the lunar calendar changes annually but is usually in November.) Nanak's religious ideas draw on both Hindu and Islamic thought but are far more than just a synt...

                                         Lohri the multifaceted festival,   is celebrated every year on 13th of January and invariably the time is such that we are caught in the midst of a bone-chilling and cold misty winter. Lohri, I often laughingly talk about it as a festival of defrosting. We could say it is a festival of seasons. The history of Lohri, over a period of time, has become quite hybridized that the root and its transition in time are latticed intricately with seasons, element and folklore. The concept is probably as old as that of Indus Valley civilization and Vedic times itself. I In Punjab, the festival of   Lohri marks   the coming of the end of winter or we could say the coming of spring and the New Year. The bonfires are lit at night and in its warmth, people come together singing lilting folk songs and h...

Ahh!! . . . here we are. January 1st, 2012…... A brand new month……. A brand new year. January, the month of new beginnings and is a time to cherish memories. It is the month in which winter weaves her magically festive spell about us with it's cool and crisp days.  This is the month where the temperatures plummet and we gladly look forward to log bonfires and with thick wisps of fog descending around us. And then the  New Year descends on us. Happy New Year! That is the greeting that we will often hear for the first few weeks of 2012. But do you know that January 1st was not always celebrated as New Year's Day? In the earliest times, the celebration of the New Year was one of the oldest recorded holidays.  It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. Babylon In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first  New  Moon …..That is the first visible crescent after the Vern...