Sindhis in India celebrate ‘Cheti Chand’ - Sindhi New Year. Do Sindhis in Pakistan celebrate Cheti Chand?
Along with Sindhis, Maharashtrians, Kannada and Telugu New Year. It is a festival to welcome the onset of the spring.
The festival marks the end of the harvest season and the onset of the spring, and to celebrate it, buntings called ‘Gudhis’ with a bamboo pole with neem leaves are raised at the doorsteps of homes all over the state.
Traditionally, tender neem leaves, that have medicinal value for improving immune system, are consumed on this day by people besides a sweet called ‘soonth-paak’ made out of ‘saunth’ or dried ginger.
Ahmedabad: The Sindhi community in Gujarat Thursday celebrated ‘Chetichand’, the beginning of a new year and the birth anniversary of their patron saint Jhulelal.
Processions were taken out, rituals performed in temples and cultural programmes organised in different towns and cities of Saurashtra and Kutch, where most of the 1.2 million Sindhis reside.
Besides the towns of Bhuj, Mandvi and Adipur in Kutch district, processions were taken out in the Saurashtra cities of Rajkot, Jamnagar and in towns like Upleta, Gondal and Junagadh.
Sindhis celebrate the New Year on Chaitri Sud Bij of the almanac in memory of Jhulelal, who was born in 951 AD in the Sindh region.
Many of the Sindhis immigrated to Gujarat after Pakistan separated from India in 1947.
Apart from the Sindhi community, Maharashtrians , Lohanas and Kharwas (sailors) also celebrate the festival in Kutch and Saurashtra.
Wasn't it supposed to be Neypi day (Observation of silence) for you? In modern day, we can translate it to include e-mails, chats and forums as well. :p
Same is the case with Persians. Though Muslims they celebrate Nowroze which is the Persian New Year which is celebrated in India by the Parsi community and Iranis.
what uncle john is trying to say here, imo, is that paki govt has literally eliminated the sindhi tehwaar…hai hai becharay sindhi.
if otherwise, then my bad uncle john
