<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Sikhism on Bhavya Bhārat</title><link>https://bhavya-bharat.com/tags/sikhism/</link><description>Recent content in Sikhism on Bhavya Bhārat</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>© 2026 Bhavya Bhārat</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://bhavya-bharat.com/tags/sikhism/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>When the Sun Enters Aries: The Many New Years of Vaisakha</title><link>https://bhavya-bharat.com/posts/vaisakhi-many-new-years/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://bhavya-bharat.com/posts/vaisakhi-many-new-years/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every April, the wheat fields of Punjab turn gold. The winter crop, sown in October, has spent months drinking from the soil of the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majha" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Majha&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doaba" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Doaba&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwa_%28Punjab%29" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Malwa&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aries_%28astrology%29" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Mesha&lt;/a&gt;, the first sign of the zodiac. Bhārat has been watching this crossing for thousands of years, and it has never stopped celebrating it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://bhavya-bharat.com/posts/vaisakhi-many-new-years/feature.jpg"/></item></channel></rss>