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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Tuesday is Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year festival. It's marked around the world, including here at home. CBS2's Kiran Dhillon has more on how the community here is celebrating.
This Friday marks Vaisakhi, one of the most significant annual celebrations for Sikhs, who make up the fifth-largest major world religion.
Baisakhi, also spelled Vaisakhi, is a widely celebrated Indian festival, especially in Punjab and Haryana. Every Indian is familiar with the harvest festival known as the Baisakhi. This occasion marks ...
The Partap Brothers, a New York-based trio of Sikh musicians, use Facebook Live to broadcast their kirtan for Vaisakhi on Sunday, April 12, 2020.
(Interfaith America) — Sikhs across the world are joining together in sangat (community) to observe Vaisakhi Friday (April 14), a celebration of our tradition’s formal founding in 1699. On ...
On the festival of Baisakhi, celebrated usually on April 13, Sikhs the world over will joyously wear yellow saffron colors, symbolizing spring harvest and the solar new year, when the Sun enters ...
Vaisakhi is an important day for the Sikh community around the world (Birmingham Mail) By. Malvika Padin; 12:25, 13 Apr 2022 Updated 11:21, 19 May 2022; ...
Sikhs across the suburbs and the globe are celebrating Vaisakhi, a spring harvest festival originating in the Punjab region of South Asia - now India and Pakistan - that started Friday and runs ...
Vaisakhi is celebrated on April 13 or 14 each year and is recognized as the day Sikhism began as a collective faith. Sikhism is the fifth-largest religion in the world.
Sikh pilgrims attend a ceremony to mark the Vaisakhi festival at the shrine of Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, some 75 kilometres (46 miles) west of Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 14, 2024.
Sikh Hoosiers on Sunday observed Vaisakhi, which traditionally marked the celebration of the harvest festival in Punjab, India. It's also a celebration of the culmination of the Sikh faith.
Thousands of Sikh devotees and spectators are expected to overflow the streets of Stockton as they come together to celebrate the 23rd annual Vaisakhi Day Parade on April 17. The parade, which has ...