Is it Basant Panchami today (23rd Jan, 2007) ?

You may think what a silly question it is! Every calender, diary and media says that today is the Basant Panchami. Even there is a holiday in several schools, Organizations and in Uttarakhand Govt. Organizations too on account of Basant Panchami.

Today morning when I was trying to get out of my bed at 6 in the morning, my body resisted to expose itself from the warmth of the quilt. Giving in to its demand I stayed there in the bed for another one hour pondering over the above question. When I got up from the bed, the first thing I did was to recheck the calender. But calender was adamant to the fact that it is Basant Panchami today.

Basant Panchami is said to be the best of all seasons, the reetu-raj. It signals the end of extreme cold season and identifies itself with the best of the Nature has to offer. With warmth in sunlight, cool and soothing breeze, blooming sunflowers with butterflies flying around them, the sweet echo of cuckoo from the branches of trees covered with brand new leaves, farm lands ready with their rubi crops of wheat and mustard for harvest, etc. the term “Basant Panchami” brings a kind of magical feeling beside ringing the spirit of festivity. Many poets and literary genius were motivated with this romantic event of the nature. But I din’t get any such feeling within me. Neither I noticed any visible changes in the nature indicating that the Royal King of All Seasons has arrived!

I live in Dehradun which is not far off from epical land of Bal Krishna viz. Brij, Vrindavan or Mathura as far as weather belt is concerned. Even though the advent of Basant Panchami seems to me a bit uncermonious in the peak of winters. We haven’t yet received the normal snow fall of the season and are still waiting for it. And suddenly, it is announced that today is Basant Panchami. Obviously, I was not convinced and still a bit sarcastic about it.

Is it only me who is at fault? It made me to write about it to ask you all. What do you feel. Please be candid.

[This post was written yesterday but due to some tech prob is being posted today.]

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Thanks Sakshi for your valuable input. I agree with you (as you might notice in my comment as “Second Thoughts”) that we should wait for some time to see the effects of the month of Basant as Panchami signifies just its beginning. I’ll keep a note of it when it arrives after this season.

1. Ashutosh on November 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am

I guess u don’t understand the meaning of Basant Panchami. It means the fifth day after Amavasya, when Basant begins,not ends. So the environment will change now and the flowers and trees will bloom. what U expect to see can be seen after 20 days.
Wish U Luck….

2. Sakshi on November 18th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

On second thoughts :

Yesterday afternoon, I was in Delhi and it was quite a hot day compelling me to put off my winter clothes. In the evening, the weather became very pleasant reminding me of this post. Again today in Udaipur (Rajastan), I had a hot summer like experience. Now, I have finally packed up all my winter clothes. Infact, I took a stroll at midnight here in Gujarat with a bottle of cold drink in my hand. All these proved that I was wrong to state that Basant Panchami has arrived prematurely. How can traditional events and calendars be wrong?

3. Ashutosh on January 28th, 2007 at 9:10 am