India is a diverse land which prides in being home to multiple cultures while respecting their equally multitudinous traditions. Similarly, the Kashmiri Pandits of Jammu & Kashmir take pride in celebrating their New Year on the first day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra, which falls somewhere between March–April), and it is called Navreh. This year Navreh is on April 8, 2016. Navreh is derived from Sanskrit word ‘Nava-Varsha’, meaning New Year. There is a customary practice of preparing a plate full of unhusked rice with a…
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