Baisakhi or Vaisakhi is a popular harvest festival predominantly celebrated in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Every year, the festival falls on the 13th or the 14th of April as it marks the beginning of the solar year and also the harvest season. The day has a lot of cultural significance for the Sikh community. The day marks the founding of the Khalsa Panth, a group of devout Sikhs by the 10th Guru, Shri Guru Gobind Singh, in the year 1969. While paying homage to that significant day, even today the day is celebrated with gusto, cheer and happiness by the Sikhs, who come together to sing kirtans, arrange processions and visit gurudwaras to offer prayers. Though the festival is mainly celebrated by the Sikhs, Hindus and other communities in the country also celebrate the festival. They dress up in their traditional attire, perform traditional dances and sing folk songs as a tribute to the harvest season.
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Baisakhi is joyously celebrated in India with family and friends, with songs, folktale storytelling and dance performances. In 2023, India celebrated it no differently. The important Sikh Gurudwaras like the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar was lit up with many flocking to bathe in the Amrit Sarovar. Dance and musical cultural fests all through the northern region of India celebrated it with pomp and show. India's diversity is incomparable to anywhere else in the world and the many festivals that she holds is only fact of how colourful and vibrant she can get.
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