The Kerala New Year (Malayalam Calendar) is on the day of vernal equinox, i.e., the day when the sun is considered to move from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The day falls in the first Malayalam month of Medam (Mesham in Sanskrit) and is celebrated as . The day also coincides with similar new year festivities in several other parts of India which follow the solar calendar; such as (in Punjab) or (in Assam).
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“A whole village-full of sensuous emotion, scattered abroad all the year long, surged here in a focus for an hour. The forty hearts of those waving couples were beating as they had not done since, twelve months before, they had come together in similar jollity. For the time Paganism was revived in their hearts, the pride of life was all in all, and they adored none other than themselves.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)