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Baisakhi 2025: Here's how Mumbai's Punjabi community celebrates the festival
Updated On: 14 April, 2025 09:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
With the oncoming of the harvest festival in North India, we reach out to members of the Punjabi community to understand its importance, and how they ring it in Mumbai
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Farmers celebrate the harvest at Sangur
A day of auspices
The day has many meanings. It is not just limited to the harvest; Baisakhi was also the day the Khalsa was established. That makes it holy for Sikhs. I grew up around Amritsar, and later Delhi. Though we were Hindu, my mother would celebrate the day in her own way. Every Baisakhi, she would take us to the temple and donate to the poor. Since this is the season for the musk melon [kharbuza], she would offer the fruit and a hand fan. After we moved to Mumbai in 1975, we made a point to have important ceremonies, engagements, meetings with friends on this day. In fact, I have lived for 50 years opposite the Gurudwara Dhan Potohar Nagar, and every year I enjoyed watching their celebrations, processions and nagar kirtans.
Meena Kanwara, 72, Santacruz West.
Rediscovering my roots
A poem on Baisakhi from Sood Nayak’s compilation
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