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Hindus around the world celebrate many festivals every year.  When I visited abroad people appreciated saying ‘You Indians spend so much on weddings and festivals, it's awesome!’ I simply replied 'Yes, we love inviting guests with great hospitality so have grand weddings and all our festivals have different meaning, so we celebrate them with full of heart'. We will discuss about other festivals and weddings some other time. Here I would like to share some important information on why do we celebrate so many new year days.  1st January is New Year as per western calendar, which is celebrated by the whole world. Hindus love celebrations and we celebrate it in western style.   Sankranti 14th January - Makar Sankranti is celebrated as first new year. Sankranti means transmigration of the Sun . On this day, Sun migrates from Aries or Mesha rashi, the first zodiac sign, so it's celebrated as New Year. However, there are 12 Sankranti’s in a year for 12 zodiac...

Vasant Leela Event Day 1 start of the event Book Exhibition by Swapna Rajput  at Vasant Leela Day 1 Swapna Rajput books Amazing Legends of India and Beautiful Roses at exhibition in Vasant Leela Day 1 Swapna Rajput Book Exhibition at Vasant Leela late Evening

Few days back there was a hurricane of messages and news on Pratyusha Banarjee’s suicide! Along with whole India, I was shocked as well with that news. Couple of years ago I was badly shocked with the suicide news of my favorite Hollywood actor, Robin Williams, he committed suicide in a depression. Some years ago there was same news of Jiah Khan. Before that in 2006, pretty TV actress and model Kuljeet Randhwah committed suicide by hanging in a depression. Often we hear this kind of news. It is hard to digest that these famous people, who achieved all the success in life and have billions of loving followers, committing suicide! very sad. I thought Pratyusha was not a right cast for ‘Balika Vadhu’ but she did a good job in the show and was loved by millions of people. She even worked in some reality shows and earned good amount of money, with that she could have settled down easily with some good person in life. How come she did not thought about her family and loved ones before t...