New year, new virus

Updated On: 22 March, 2020 05:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Sumedha Raikar Mhatre

Gudhi Padwa's rangoli makers and pugdi-nauwari specialists try to make sense of calling in the new year amid restrictions that make the festival more personal than public.

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Swara Telawne and Bhushan Dugade prep for the Shobhayatra, where men and women from the community dress in traditional gear, and ride bikes through the streets of the city in a celebration of Marathi culture and identity. Pic/ Atul Kamble

Noted poet Bahinabai Chaudhari's (1880-1951) Gudhi Ubharani (Mounting The Gudhi) defines good beginnings on the first day of the Chaitra month according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar.