Happy New Year 2016!

[SrinathK]

I wish everyone a very happy and prosperous New Year 2016!

On behalf of rasikas.org, let's wish musicians and rasikas and all those near and dear and everyone else the very best for a happy 2016!

sarve jana sukhino bhavantu
Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah

[uday_shankar]

Indeed. Happy New Year to all rasikas !

[Lakshman]

Wishing all rasikas a very happy new year and a great 2016 filled with pleasant and enjoyable musical experiences.

[maduraimini]

Happy New Year to all the Rasikas! May this New Year bring good health and peace to all of us!

[kvchellappa]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

[cienu]

Wishing all - Musicians and Rasikas a wonderful 2016.

[rshankar]

Wishing everyone a healthy, happy, and peaceful 2016 filled with great music and happiness!!

[aaaaabbbbb]

Happy New year to all forumites.

[MV]

Very Happy 2016 to all forumites, friends, musicians...

[arasi]

A Happy, healthy 2016 to all!
To all fellow rasikAs (how many friends here!).
And to the music makers...

How custom rules us! First of January still remains the new year to wish each other--a western custom which became ours. Yet, some of us do not brook the coming in of any northern rAgA into CM's realm and somehow, kApi and behAg don't get punished--lucky ones

A happy one, again

[thanjavooran]

Happy musical new year to all our fellow forumites!
Thanjavooran
01 01 2016

[PUNARVASU]

Dear Rasikas.org family
Include the following two sets of words in your New Year Resolution:
Music,Bliss, Smile, Peace
Love. Give, Hugs, Pray
Your Year 2016 is made!
Have doubts? Just count the letters!
These are your blessings
Count your blessings and be happy!
Wishing you all a very happy, healthy, musical, peaceful and prosperous New Year!

[bilahari]

Here's to a safe, happy, healthy, and musical new year to all forumites and their families!

[Sundara Rajan]

HAPPY , HEALTHY, PEACEFUL, PRODUCTIVE and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL

[Nick H]

May we have many happy new years, and may our homes, where-ever they are in this now meteorologically turbulent world, remain safe and dry

[shankarank]

A Happy, healthy 2016 to all!
To all fellow rasikAs (how many friends here!).
And to the music makers...

How custom rules us! First of January still remains the new year to wish each other--a western custom which became ours. Yet, some of us do not brook the coming in of any northern rAgA into CM's realm and somehow, kApi and behAg don't get punished--lucky ones

A happy one, again

It is nothing but the Winter Solstice celebrated in all Pagan cultures. We were just behind noticing the apparent turn back of Surya! or it may be the 60 year rolling Alamanac. Happy Makara Sankranti and Thai Pongal to all!

[SrinathK]

Our Makara Sankranti is following a calendar that is 1800 years too old, the Uttarayana now starts on Dec 22.

[Nick H]

A Happy, healthy 2016 to all!
To all fellow rasikAs (how many friends here!).
And to the music makers...

How custom rules us! First of January still remains the new year to wish each other--a western custom which became ours. Yet, some of us do not brook the coming in of any northern rAgA into CM's realm and somehow, kApi and behAg don't get punished--lucky ones

A happy one, again

It is nothing but the Winter Solstice celebrated in all Pagan cultures. We were just behind noticing the apparent turn back of Surya! or it may be the 60 year rolling Alamanac. Happy Makara Sankranti and Thai Pongal to all!

I think that is more true about christmas. If one is going to impose one's religion, it makes sense to change people's perceptions of existing festivals. I have a feeling we have done this culture-imposition/conversion thing to death in more serious threads,, and I am not trying to restart here. But the solstice is 21 December, much closer to 25th than to 1st Jan. Of course, calendars have changed over centuries. Come to think of it, eleven days was lost in the last major calender change, and perhaps that accounts for it. Or was it gained? I don't know!

So we are stuck with this calendar, internationally, whatever alternatives the world offers, and whatever alternatives are actually in use by some countries. Some countries who do not have a traditional (how old is tradition: cf previous mention of culture theft, it happened to Europe too) christian base also make a big thing of Jan 1st as new year. The Japanese party even harder than the Scottish!

Nobody ever says no to the religion-based public holidays, whether it is their religion or not. Everybody likes a good party, whether it is their culture or not.

Yes, the sun (or rather, the earth) and the calendar have moved on... Happy Pongal to all!