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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Early next month, Manukau Libraries will come alive with the sounds and colours of India to mark Vaisakhi the Indian harvest festival.
Demonstrations of Indian musical instruments, Gidda and Bhangra dance performances are some of the colourful unique aspects of Indian culture on offer.
Libraries Outreach Coordinator Community Cultures Jiannan Wang says “Our Vaisakhi celebrations are a great way for the Indian community to share its culture with the rest of the city.
“I also encourage our customers, in particular our Indian community, to visit Papatoetoe and view their extensive collection of Hindi and Punjabi books”.
Vaisakhi is an important celebration all over India coinciding with the change of the seasons and falls on April 14. It is celebrated with vigour in Punjab.
The day is also observed as the beginning of the Hindu solar new year in Kerala, Orissa, West Bengal and some other regions of India as also by the people of Nepal.
Besides Punjab, Baisakhi is widely celebrated as traditional harvest festival in many northern states of India, such as Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In many places the day is marked by ritualistic bathing in sacred rivers like the Ganges.
In Himachal Pradesh, the Hindu Goddess Jwalamukhi is worshipped on Vaisakhi, while in Bihar, Surya is honoured. The festival is celebrated as Rongali Bihu in Assam, Naba Barsha or Pohela Boishakh in Bengal, Assam and Tripura, Puthandu (Tamil New Year) in Tamil Nadu, Vishu in Kerala, Maha Vishuba Sankranti (or Pana Sankranti) in Orissa, and the Sinhala and Tamil new year festival in Sri Lanka.
The infamous Jallianwalla Baug massacre on April 13, 1919 happened on the eve of Baisakhi in Amritsar.
Early next month, Manukau Libraries will come alive with the sounds and colours of India to mark Vaisakhi the Indian harvest festival. Demonstrations of Indian musical instruments, Gidda and Bhangra dance performances are some of the colourful unique aspects of Indian culture on offer. Libraries...
Early next month, Manukau Libraries will come alive with the sounds and colours of India to mark Vaisakhi the Indian harvest festival.
Demonstrations of Indian musical instruments, Gidda and Bhangra dance performances are some of the colourful unique aspects of Indian culture on offer.
Libraries Outreach Coordinator Community Cultures Jiannan Wang says “Our Vaisakhi celebrations are a great way for the Indian community to share its culture with the rest of the city.
“I also encourage our customers, in particular our Indian community, to visit Papatoetoe and view their extensive collection of Hindi and Punjabi books”.
Vaisakhi is an important celebration all over India coinciding with the change of the seasons and falls on April 14. It is celebrated with vigour in Punjab.
The day is also observed as the beginning of the Hindu solar new year in Kerala, Orissa, West Bengal and some other regions of India as also by the people of Nepal.
Besides Punjab, Baisakhi is widely celebrated as traditional harvest festival in many northern states of India, such as Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In many places the day is marked by ritualistic bathing in sacred rivers like the Ganges.
In Himachal Pradesh, the Hindu Goddess Jwalamukhi is worshipped on Vaisakhi, while in Bihar, Surya is honoured. The festival is celebrated as Rongali Bihu in Assam, Naba Barsha or Pohela Boishakh in Bengal, Assam and Tripura, Puthandu (Tamil New Year) in Tamil Nadu, Vishu in Kerala, Maha Vishuba Sankranti (or Pana Sankranti) in Orissa, and the Sinhala and Tamil new year festival in Sri Lanka.
The infamous Jallianwalla Baug massacre on April 13, 1919 happened on the eve of Baisakhi in Amritsar.
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