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ਪਰਵ
ਉਤਸਵ

The Sacred
Calendar

The Sikh year is not a schedule. It is a spiral — the same lights, returning closer each time.

The Season

The nearest one burns brighter

Prakash purbs, shaheedi days and festivals — hold to commune with each.

ਮਾਘੀ
Maghi
13 Jan 2027
The forty whose resolve outlasted the winter.
ਵਿਸਾਖੀ
Vaisakhi
14 Apr 2027
The birth of the Khalsa — and the harvest’s first thanks.
ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ ਦਿਵਸ
Guru Arjan Dev Shaheedi
16 Jun 2027
The compiler of the Guru Granth Sahib gave his head so difference would survive.
ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ ਦਿਵਸ
Bandi Chhor Divas
8 Nov 2026
Lunar — Diwali night; sixty-five hundred prisoners walked out beside the Guru.
ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦੁਰ ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ ਦਿਵਸ
Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheedi
24 Nov 2026
He gave everything so no one would have to give up their faith.
ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ ਪੁਰਬ
Guru Nanak Prakash Purab
24 Nov 2026
Lunar — the full moon of Kartik; the first voice of the Name.
ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਜੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ ਪੁਰਬ
Guru Gobind Singh Prakash Purab
22 Dec 2026
The poet-warrior who sealed the Guruship of the Word.

Lunar observances follow the Nanakshahi reckoning and shift each year — the page notices; the moon does not need to.

ਛੰਦ

“On these days the calendar becomes a door. Walk through it”

Placing Sikh Kirtan onto the global stage, Manika's voice is an elegant, borderless invitation to inner peace.

ਉਤਸਵ
Chapter 02

Celebrate
with the sangat

Tell us your gurpurab and we will send the shabad that met it last time.