Creative Birthday Gift to my lovely son Kshitij.

New Thoughts
New Concepts
Here's to a new inception....

Gudhi Padva (Marathi: गुढी पाडवा )is a spring-time festival that marks the traditional new year for Marathi Hindus. It is celebrated in and near Maharashtra on the first day of the Chaitra month to mark the beginning of the New year according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar. The word पाडवा (pāḍavā) or पाडवो (pāḍavo) comes from the Sanskrit word प्रतिपद or प्रतिपदा (pratipadā) in Sanskrit, which refers to the first day of a lunar fortnight. The festival is observed with colorful floor decorations called rangoli, a special Gudhi flag (garlanded with flowers, mango and neem leaves, topped with upturned silver or copper vessel), street processions, dancing and festive foods.

I believe in the persistence of light and the ecstasy of celebration it brings with it. Just symbolically the Kalash we represent graphically serves almost as an apt allusion to a bulb, a beacon of light glowing far and wide. All that is life along with the element of the grand paeagent of colors serve as an aftermath of the glowing bulb, reaching out in all directions. On the illustrious occasion of Gudi Padwa, all I can do is relate the Kalash in the Gudi to a bulb; a bulb, which works on two levels, a harbinger of light and the universal icon for ideas. Both of which are somewhat relatable to the idea of celebrating Gudi Padwa as it is a celebration of Genesis as in the Brahma Puran, after a massive deluge destructed the world, Lord Brahma recreated it on this day.

Happy Gudi Padwa