Happy Baisakhi

Happy Baisakhi, Baisakhi is one of the most important festivals of Sikhs and significant holidays in Sikh calendar.This festival is celebrated by the Khalsa as their birthday every year, the day corresponding to the event when they were created by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.

Baisakhi celebrates with full of enthusiasm and rejoice in the state of Punjab and all the world where there is a significant Sikh population. For the large farming community of Punjab, Baisakhi Festival marks the time for harvest of rabi crops and they celebrate the day by performing joyful bhangra and gidda dance. For the Sikh community, Baisakhi Festival has tremendous religious significance as it was on a Baisakhi Day in 1699, that Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru laid the foundation of Panth Khalsa-the Order of the Pure Ones.

Baisakhi Festival falls on the first day of Vaisakh month (April-May) according to Nanakshahi or Sikh Calendar. For this reason, Baisakhi is also popularly known as Vaisakhi. According to English calendar, the date of Baisakhi corresponds to April 13 every year and April 14 once in every 36 years. This difference in Baisakhi dates is due to the fact that day of Baisakhi is reckoned according to solar calendar and not the lunar calendar. The auspicious date of Baisakhi is celebrated all over India under different names and different set of rituals and celebrations. Baisakhi date coincides with ‘Rongali Bihu’ in Assam, ‘Naba Barsha’ in Bengal, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu and ‘Pooram Vishu’ in Kerala.

Baisakhi Cards serve as an extremle popular medium of exchanging greeting on the joyous occation of Baisakhi Festival. Along with thoughtful Gifts, people in Punjab exchange millions of Baishakhi Greeting cards to wish “Happy Baisakhi” to friends and dear ones.

People strongly believe that exchanging Baisakhi Greeting card helps to streghten relationship and build lasting bonds.

According to Hidus, Vaisakhi celebration Bring along Baisakhi, the essential first month initiating the New Year of the Hindu calender. Apart from sikhs and Hindus, people from multifarious regions of india find themselves drenched in the flavor of Baisakhi.