New Year celebrations tomorrow | Tamil New Year 2010

India Festivals | | April 14, 2010 at 3:52 am

Bisu parba in Dakshina Kannada, Varsha Pirappu or Puthandu in Tamil Nadu and Vishu in Kerala – a harvest festival as well as the New 12 months for all, will be celebrated on April 15.

For Tulu-speaking community of Dakshina Kannada, it is harvest festival. New crops are brought home to worship and new accounts are opened. Rice, coconut, cucumber, gold items, fruits and areca nut are offered during the pooja early on Wednesday morning. Wearing new dresses and giving money to kids and also the poor are also portion from the festival celebrations.

As component of Bisu, Bunts Sangha in Vijayanagar will hold special programmes within the evening with Minister of Public Health Suresh Shetty from Mumbai and MLA Shobha Karandlaje as the chief guests. “Our community is mostly agriculturists. Hence, it is a day when new paddy crop is brought home,” mentioned BLN Hegde, the Sangha president.

According to Tulu Sahitya Academy Secretary Uday Dharmasthala, Bisu marks the entrance of sun in ‘Mesha’. “The farmers typically show their gratitude towards the landowners on Bisu with the landowners helping them in return,” he mentioned.

Viewing Kanni or auspicious points is considered a major portion of Tamil New 12 months. As the legend goes, seeing auspicious items early this day brings fortune throughout the 12 months. In Kerala beginning from the Zodiac New 12 months – when the the sun enters into Aries, ‘Ashwini nakshatra’ is celebrated as Vishu. Even Malaylee women prepare the vishu kani a day prior to.

The kani comprises very first vegetables with the new season, fruits like jackfruit, mango, coconut, gold items, a photo with the god, new silk clothes, lamp and most crucial – the Kani Koona poo (a yellow coloured flower). “All these items are kept in bowl filled with rice and placed in front of a mirror.

The lady from the house brings loved ones members with their eyes closed in front from the kani the next day morning and ask them to open their eyes. Later, senior loved ones members are expected to give money to young members with the household,” mentioned Reji Kumar from Kerala Samajam. As most members have gone to Kerala, Kumar mentioned that the Samajam will organise Vishu function in May possibly.