Thanksgiving meets and greets are held on this day as the Parsi families decorate their homes with flowers, garlands and ‘rangolis’. It is one of the main festivals of the Parsi community.
The Parsi New Year falls on March 21 this year. I send best wishes and greetings to you on behalf of Namaste Switzerland, highlighting just a few festivities in order of their dates – for the sake of nostalgia. The consistent factor underlying each remains the mood to rejoice and mark new beginnings with fanfare. These festivals revolve around the concepts of welcoming Spring, or the first harvest’ or bidding adieu to the cold winter in certain areas up North. March and April – they are the months of Holi, Gudipadwa, Ugadi or Basant Panchami, Bohag Bihu or Easter – or the many other big and small festivities celebrated by Indians all across the globe. And in India, we welcome Spring in ways more than one. In Switzerland, we rejoice the season’s change. As the cold winter ebbs, the sun glorifies the blue skies.
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