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We, Sri Lankans, use the “Western Calendar” (formally known as the Gregorian calendar) for most of the practical day-to-day activities like the rest of the world. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect our celebrating the beginning of the calendar year. Recently, with the influence of ICT, I see a trend of celebrating this new year from top to bottom with the president sending wishes to your mobile phones and layman celebrating at least with a greeting.

However, we Sri Lankans, is this the only new year we celebrate within a year (365+ days)? The answer is no! If you are from the majority of Sri Lankans, you will also celebrate the beginning of the Buddhist calendar and if you are one of the minorities, you will either celebrate the beginning of either the Hindu or the Islamic calendars. Again, a Sri Lankan Hindu, generally being a Tamil would also like to celebrate an alternative date (beginning of Tamil “Thai” month).

Given that how much we as a country care about every race and religion of this country, we declare national holidays for most of the above celebrate the new years with our fellow citizens, our brothers and sisters!

To add to this list, I am sure, we are not far away from declaring the first day of the Chinese calendar as a holiday. We Sri Lankans should be glad, as how much we love our holidays in this part of the world!

Happy New Year 2012!