When the Sun Enters Aries: The Many New Years of Vaisakha
Every April, the wheat fields of Punjab turn gold. The winter crop, sown in October, has spent months drinking from the soil of the Majha, Doaba, and Malwa plains, and now it stands ready to harvest. At the same moment, something is happening in the sky: the sun is crossing the boundary into Mesha, the first sign of the zodiac. Bhārat has been watching this crossing for thousands of years, and it has never stopped celebrating it.