✦ zenith calendar · the regional new years almanac
the new years of india's regions and of bangladesh in one quiet layer of your sky, each explained in its own words.
regional new years (hindu) is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the new years of india's regions and of bangladesh, each as the panchang reckons it for that region's own city, so a day can fall a day apart from the new delhi days in the hindu almanac.
its dates come from the published panchang, not worked out on your phone. tap a new year and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
each region's own new year, as the panchang gives it for that region's city
nutan varsh · the gujarati new year
the first day of kartika's bright fortnight, just after diwali
the gujarati new year: a new year of the vikram samvat begins, and people greet one another with "saal mubarak".
people rise early, draw rangoli, visit the temple and touch the feet of their elders for blessing; temples offer annakut, a mountain of dishes, and the day is spent visiting family and friends with sweets.
yugadi · the beginning of an age
the first day of chaitra's bright fortnight
the telugu and kannada new year, which opens the year with blessing and with both sweet and bitter.
telugu homes eat ugadi pachadi, which holds six tastes, and kannada homes share bevu-bella, neem and jaggery; families go to the temple and hear the year's panchanga read aloud.
the tamil new year
the first day of chithirai, as the sun enters aries
the tamil new year: a morning of first sights, clean houses and fresh beginnings.
a kolam of rice powder is drawn at the door, and the first sight of the morning is a tray of mango, banana and jackfruit before a mirror; families eat mango pachadi, sweet, sour and bitter together.
nobo borsho · the bengali new year
the first day of boishakh, as the panjika reckons it
the bengali new year: a day of new clothes, new account books and the greeting "shubho noboborsho".
shopkeepers keep haal khata, closing the old ledger and opening a new one; families visit temples, wear new clothes and share a festive meal.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, regional new years (hindu) puts its new years on their dates on that ring, in rose. its mark is ☀︎, the sun.
each new year carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition tells it, and how it is kept.
regional new years (hindu) arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
regional new years (hindu) shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
regional new years (hindu) is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
regional new years (hindu) is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
regional new years (hindu) ·
Ugadi, the Telugu and Kannada new year, falls on 7 April 2027, the first day of Chaitra's bright fortnight. Gudhi Padwa, the Marathi new year, falls on the same day.
Puthandu, the Tamil new year, falls on 14 April 2027, the first day of Chithirai, as the panchang gives it for Tamil Nadu.
In West Bengal, Poila Boishakh falls on 15 April 2027 as the panjika reckons it. In Bangladesh, Pohela Boishakh is kept on 14 April every year.
Bestu Varas, the Gujarati new year, falls on 10 November 2026, just after Diwali. In 2027 it falls on 30 October.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called regional new years (hindu): each region's own new year, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Hindu holds the festivals of the Hindu year as they fall for New Delhi. Regional new years (hindu) holds each region's own new year, reckoned for that region's city, so it can fall a day apart from the hindu almanac's days. They are separate almanacs, so you light the one you keep.
Each is copied from the panchang as it is published for that region's own city, and Bangladesh's from its reformed calendar, not worked out on your phone.