Regions: In northern parts of India(Punjab, Harayana)
Famous as : celebrated as a Harvest Festival.
Time: comes on 14th April.


Baisakhi Festival Information
marks the arrival of the harvesting season. The festival marks the beginning of the Hindu solar year and falls on 14th of April. The festival is celebrated in order to luxuriate in the booming bumper crop, the fruit of a farmer’s whole year's hard labor. It is also a momentous day for the Sikhs as Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa on this auspicious day.

Celebrations
Baisakhi is basically a harvest festival celebrated in the parts of north India particularly in Punjab and Haryana when the Rabi crop is in its full swing ready for harvesting. Men full of enthusiasm and excitement performs Bhangra Dance with vigorous steps accompanied by singing. Women also add to the flavor by participating in Gidda Dance, accomplished with ardency and rhythm. On these occasions, men and women garnish themselves with mottled clothes and conventional jewelry.

The Sikhs celebrate this religious day by visiting Gurudwaras and distributing Kada Prasad. Processions led by the Panj Piaras or the five religious men are taken out. Kirtans and recital of passages from the Granth Sahib are also arranged in Gurdwaras,

Significance of the Festival
On this auspicious day in 1699, sikhs 10th Guru, Gobind Singh, established the Khalsa and declared the Granth Sahib to be the perpetual Guru of all Sikhs
Guru Arjan Dev was victim of the Muslim rulers who threw him alive into a repository of boiling oil on Baikashi day.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj on this day in 1875. He was a reformer of Indian Society and also repudiated idol worship.
The day is also of tremendous religious importance to the Buddhists, as Gautam Buddha achieved edification or Nirvana under the Mahabodhi tree in Gaya on this auspicious day. The day is also known, as Buddha Purnima is some parts of the country.

Organizing Fairs
Fairs are organized at different places in Punjab, besides other merriment activities, wrestling fight are also organized. The occasion is celebrated with great zeal at Talwandi Sabo, where Guru Gobind Singh resides for nine months and completed the holy book, Guru Granth Sahib.