Everything about New Year

Let me first wish 'Happy new Year' in advance to all fellow bloggers and blog readers.The dawn of the new year prompted me to think about the different New Years being celebrated in India by different states and by different linguistic communities in the same state.How this could have come in to being?Why there is no uniformity? Should we have different calendar years?Does it serve any purpose?.Is there any logic behind these?But irrespective of all these,January first is celebrated as New Year and December 31st as New Year eve by a huge majority in India too,in line with the global celebrations. New year was first observed in Babylon 4000 years ago.The first New moon after the first day of spring was celebrated as New year in Babylon.Still in West Bengal,Kerala,Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh New Year is celebrated with begining of Spring.Until recently it was so in Tamilnadu also.To add to the Confusion recently the Tamilnadu government changed the Tamil new year which was hitherto celebrated in April(As the first day of Tamil month Chithirai) to January (first day of Tamil month Thai ) .What prompted the government to do this is still anybody's guess.For Gujarati's New year coincides with Diwali.For the Jains,the New Year begins on the next day of the Diwali.The Sikh New Year begins with Chet 1 which normally coincides with March 14.The Muslim New Year is celebrated on the first day of Muharram.The Indian christians follow the westerners and celebrate january 1st as New Year.Jamshed Navroz is the Parsi New Year.It normally falls on March 21st.Navroz means Spring and Jamshed started the Parsi calendar.The Bhuddist New year is celebrated on different days through out the world.It is celebrated on the first full moon day in April in Thailand,Burma,Sri Lanka ,Cambodia and Laos.Tibetan Bhuddist celebrate in March.Bhuddists in China,Mangolia,vietnam,Korea,Japan and indonesai celebrate new year on first full Moon day in January. The Chinese New Year is celebrated on a different day every year.It coincides with the first day of the First Moon of the lunar calendar.The Romans were the most confused about new year,since the new year was frequently tampered with every emperor until Juius Ceaser set it right.Actually the first day of January was fixed as new year arbitrarily by Julius Ceaser.In 46 BCE Julius Ceaser fixed January 1st as New Year.Initially it was a celebration for God Janus,the God of begining.January is named after the Roman God Janus.Though observed for the first time 4000 years ago,New year is being celebrated by the world only for the last 400 years.New Year signifies completion and begining of a new period.Scientifically earth completes one revolution around sun at a particular point in its orbit.