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Ugadi is the Telugu new year's day for the people of the Andhra Pradesh. While the people use the term Ugadhi for this festival, It falls on a different day every year because the Indian calendar is a lunisolar calendar. The Saka calendar begins with the month of Chaitra and ugadi marks the first day of the new year. Telugu calender have 60 year in cycle and this year name Vikruthi. Telugu people celebrate the festival with great fanfare, gatherings of the extended family, begins head showers followed by prayers, and then the eating of Ugadi pachadi specific mixture of -

This mixture with all six tastes called Ugadi Pachadi in Telugu symbolizes the fact that life is a mixture of different experiences (sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise) , which should be accepted together and with equanimity.