[Reader-list] Happy New Sindhi Year

[Vivek Narayanan]

Why thank you for asking about Zambia.  Hardly anyone does.  But, since 
Zambia is a largely Christianized nation home to over seventy self- and 
anthropologist-identified linguistic communities, the new year falls, 
rather disappointingly, on January 1.  As does the "Indian" new year.

I suppose a lot depends on why someone posts a given message to the list.

If such a message was a nearly-unintended side-effect of pressing the 
"send all" button in your address book, then I ask, as a fellow-member, 
to please, please, kindly desist.  Nobody likes gratuitous email; some 
would even call it spam.

If the message was meant as an assertion of community, an attempt to 
reach out and hello to Sindhis whether they be in Panama City, Monaco or 
Saigon, then surely there would be other forums where that message might 
be more efficiently conveyed?

If the message was a way of announcing the sender's presence and 
identity on the list, of greeting non-Sindhis and making common cause, 
then I find it most welcome!  But with just a little bit of extra 
annotation, please.   What is the specific reason for posting it to a 
discussion of media and the urban?  What does the day mean to you, what 
resonances does it have?  This would be most appreciated.

And as for me, I believe it can be scientifically proven that every new 
day is also a potentially new year. 

Time to make some more resolutions,
Vivek



Anand Vivek Taneja wrote:

>it would be interesting to take this beyond cynical sniping into an
>informed discussion on calendars, and real and mythological 'times'
>and their passing; and the disaporic connection to 'time' in the era
>of climate change, and the 'global' prevalence of the gregorian
>calendar.
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>amartya sen had an interesting piece on various indian calendars in
>one of the fist few issues of the little magazine.
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>i too, would be interested in knowing about the Zambian New Year. Or
>rather, what those we call 'Zambians' think of 'New' and Year', among
>other things...
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>On Apr 12, 2005 12:20 PM, Shivam Vij <shivamvij at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Oh yes, of course, thanks! April 13, no? Happy Punjabi New Year,
>>whatever that means! Tell all Punjabis to celebrate in their inherited
>>(or mythical, if geographically partitioned) agricultural lands. Wear
>>only yellow, eat khicdi. And let me know when the Zambian New Year is.
>>Shivam
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>>On Apr 12, 2005 12:09 PM, Aman Malik <aman.malik at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Punjabi new year is on Baisakhi...
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>>>On Apr 12, 2005 9:31 AM, Shivam Vij <shivamvij at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>But I am not a Sindhi. And when is the Punjabi new year?
>>>>Shivam
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>>>>On Apr 11, 2005 4:05 PM, Zulfiqar Shah <zulfisindh at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Happy New Sindhi Year   Chetti Chand   April 10
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>>--
>>"I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to death your
>>right to say it." - Voltaire
>>http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Shivam
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