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ZVlxnqEY/0.jpg' alt='New Year Tamil Programs' title='New Year Tamil Programs' />Puthandu Wikipedia. Puthandu. Tamil New Year. Tamil new year decorations for Puthandu. Observed by. Tamil Hindus in India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore1Typereligious, social. Significance. Tamil New Year. Celebrations. Feasting, gift giving, visiting homes and temples. Date. First day of Chitterai in the Tamil calendar. Friday, 1. 4 April2Related to. Vaisakhi, Vishu Kerala, Burmese New Year, Cambodian New Year, Lao New Year, Malayali New Year, Odia New Year, Sri Lankan New Year, Thai New Year. Puthandu Tamil, also known as Puthuvarusham or Tamil New Year, is the first day of year on the Tamil calendar. The festival date is set with the solar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, as the first day of the Tamil month Chithirai. It therefore almost always falls on or about 1. 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The same day is observed by Hindus elsewhere as the traditional new year, but is known by other names such as Vishu in Kerala, and Vaisakhi in central and north India. On this day, Tamil people greet each other by saying Puttu vttukka or Iiya puttu nalvttukka, which is equivalent to Happy new year. The day is observed as a family time. Households clean up the house, prepare a tray with fruits, flowers and auspicious items, light up the family Puja altar and visit their local temples. People wear new clothes and youngster go to elders to pay respects and seek their blessings, then the family sits down to a vegetarian feast. Puthandu is also celebrated by Tamil Hindus outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, such as in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Reunion, Mauritius and other countries with Tamil Diaspora. Origin and significanceedit. A traditional arrangement of festive foods for Puthandu. The Tamil New Year follows the spring equinox and generally falls on 1. April of the Gregorian year. The day celebrates the first day of the traditional Tamil calendar and is a public holiday in both Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. The same date is observed as the traditional new year by many Hindus in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Bihar, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan as well as by Hindus in Nepal and Bangladesh. Several Buddhist communities in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka also celebrate the same day as their new year,7 likely an influence of the shared culture between South and Southeast Asia in the 1st millennium CE. CelebrationeditTamil people celebrate Puthandu, also called Puthuvarusham, as the traditional Hindu New Year. This is the month of Chittirai, the first month of the Tamil solar calendar, and Puthandu typically falls on 1. April. 9 In some parts of Southern Tamil Nadu, the festival is called Chittirai Vishu. On the eve of Puthandu, a tray arranged with three fruits mango, banana and jack fruit, betel leaves and arecanut, goldsilver jewellery, coinsmoney, flowers and a mirror. This is similar to Vishu new year festival ceremonial tray in Kerala. According to the Tamil tradition, this festive tray is auspicious as the first sight upon waking on the new year day. The home entrances are decorated elaborately with colored rice powder and these designs are called kolams. In the temple city of Madurai, the Chitterai Thiruvizha is celebrated in the Meenakshi Temple. A huge exhibition is held, called Chitterai Porutkaatchi. On the day of Tamil New Year, a big Car Festival is held at Tiruvidaimarudur near Kumbakonam. Festivals are also held at Tiruchirapalli, Kanchipuram and many other places. Tamil Hindus decorate their homes with various auspicious colorful geometric designs from rice powder called Kolam. Sri Lankan Tamils observe the traditional new year in April with the first financial transaction known as the Kai vishesham where youngsters go to elders paying their respect, and elders giving their blessings and gifting pocket money to them. The event is also observed with the arpudu or the first ploughing of the ground to prepare for the new agricultural cycle. The game of por thenkai or coconut wars between youth is played in villages through the Tamil north and east of the island while cart races are also held. The festive Puthandu season in April is a time for family visits and the renewal of filial bonds. It coincides with the Sinhalese new year season. Two styles of mango based pachadi dish, that combines many bitter sour sweet pungent flavors to mark Puthandu. Later in the day, families enjoy a feast. A special dish called Mangai pachadi is prepared from a variety of flavors, similar to pacchadi of new year foods of Ugadi and Vishu. It is made from sweet jaggery, astringent mustard, sour raw mango, bitter neem, and red chilies. Driver Epson Stylus Cx3500 Windows 7. Ultimate Maps Er Serial here. These complex dish is ritually tasted by Tamils, as similar multi flavors are by Hindus elsewhere on the new year. Such traditional festive recipes, that combine different flavors, are a symbolic reminder that one must expect all flavors of experiences in the coming new year, that no event or episode is wholly sweet or bitter, experiences are transitory and ephemeral, and to make the most from them. In Malaysia and Singapore, Tamils join Sikhs, Malayalees and Bengalis to celebrate the traditional new year in mid April with leaders across the political spectrum wishing the ethnic Indian community for the new year. Special religious events are held in Hindu temples, in Tamil community centers and Gurdwaras. Cultural programs and media events also take place. Its a day of celebration for the Indian community. The 2. 01. 7 Tamil New Year name is. Controversyedit. A Puthandu decoration at a Hindu temple. The previous Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam DMK led Government of Tamil Nadu had declared in 2. Tamil new year should be celebrated on the first day of Tamil month of Thai 1. January coinciding with the harvest festival of Pongal. The Tamil Nadu New Year Declaration Bill 2. DMK assembly members and its Tamil Nadu Government on 2. January 2. 00. 8. This law of the DMK majority led government was subsequently rescinded by a separate act of legislation in the Tamil Nadu Assembly with an AIADMK majority led government on 2. August 2. 01. 1. 2. Many in Tamil Nadu ignored the government legislation that rescheduled the festival date, and continued the celebration of their traditional Puthandu new year festival in mid April. The Governor and Chief Minister of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry, which has an ethnic Tamil majority, felicitated the public for the Tamil new year in April 2. The legislative reach to change the traditional religious new year by the DMK government was questioned by Hindu priests. The law was met with resistance by Tamils in the state and elsewhere. It was also challenged in court. The then opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MDMK in Tamil Nadu subsequently condemned the decision of the DMK Government in that state and urged their supporters to continue celebrating the traditional date in mid April. Tamils in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Canada continued to observe the new year in mid April.