Comments on: NoRuz

By: malang

malang — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:41:18 +0000

i knew about No-roz but not about jashn-e-sadeh which is also just like no-roz

read about it at:

legendsoftheeast.wordpress.com

By: Land of Lime » Ugadi

Land of Lime » Ugadi — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:42:16 +0000

[...] Newspapers were all full of Ugadi related stories today. Deccan Herald was probably the best with three nice features on the festival itself, on the onset of Spring and the celebration of Ugadi in Kannada poetry. Also see Sepoy’s recent posting on new years festivals in the Asian world. I am reminded of ancient Indian spring festivals, which were liminal moments, when for three days men and women could freely choose partners outside of their marital relationship. Apparently, Chanakya was scared of the freedom inherent in the festival and banned vasantotsava, as soon as Chandragupta Maurya came to power. Poets and playwrights, though, continued to write about it. In southern Karnataka, we grew up with ugadi (and unfortunately no vasantotsava for us) and my favorite Kannada novel on rurual southern Karnataka culture, Doddamane (Big House), begins with a description of Ugadi. This afternoon, I picked up the book from Regenstein and read parts of it, after about fifteen years or so. The novelist, H L Nage Gowda, a major Kannada writer and folklorist, was my mother’s uncle and her only book too is on this novel. [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Pakistan: Blog-o-warming

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Pakistan: Blog-o-warming — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:15:39 +0000

[...] Chapati Mystery highlights the festival of Noruz; Suspect Paki presents his angered rant on Democracy; The Fountainhead pens an impeccable article on a very important issue; Teeth Maestro coughs his way through switching hosting sites; Lightwithin addresses questions on the subject of Pakistani blogging; and finally I imagined what items would be ON SALE if the White House advertised on E-Bay. (Incidentally, this post got a fair number of hits as it got picked up by many alternative news sites ‚Äì shameless plug) [...]

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:39:09 +0000

Nevruz bayrami kutlu olsun! In Turkey it is particularly connected with Kurdish identity, and in recent years its celebration has become increasingly & interestingly politicized.

I have found (part of) your book; details to follow.

By: Sluggish Slug

Sluggish Slug — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:21:21 +0000

By the way, happy “Eid e Nawroz”!

By: Sluggish Slug

Sluggish Slug — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:20:46 +0000

You forgot to mention that the concoction of seven fruits (or berries) is allowed to stand in conditions that are conducive to some mild fermentation (of course everyone acts surprised that it should turn out to be so). So the Mullahs have every reason to be suspicious.

Also, I don’t think only the Mullahs dislike Nawroz. It is a Persian celebration so to speak (or at least now it stands that way and language is a major cleft in Afghanistan and has been for the past three hundred years). Any one with an axe to grind on that front is also likely to hate it.