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Ugadi

A new year that tastes of all six flavours at once.

A family sharing the first spoonful of Ugadi pachadi

Neem and jaggery on one spoon — the bitter and the sweet together. May you take the year as it comes and find something good in all of it. Happy Ugadi! 🌿

Ugadi wishes with name, in one paragraph

By IndianWishes ·

An Ugadi wish with your name on it is an ordinary greeting card with one thing changed: it says who sent it. Type your name on this page and you get a card that opens with “Asha is wishing you Happy Ugadi” instead of a forward from nobody in particular. It is free, takes about ten seconds, and there is nothing to sign up for.

What Ugadi celebrates

Ugadi is the new year for Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Its signature is a dish that deliberately contains all six tastes at once — a blunt statement that the coming year will bring all of them. Wikipedia's overview of Ugadi has the fuller picture.

When Ugadi falls

The first day of Chaitra, in March or April.

Most Indian festivals follow a lunar calendar, so the date moves against the Gregorian one each year. For the official dates, the Government of India holiday calendar is the one to check.

How Ugadi is celebrated

  • Ugadi pachadi, mixing neem, jaggery, raw mango, tamarind, chilli and salt
  • Hanging fresh mango leaf torans across the doorway
  • Reading the panchangam — the year's almanac — aloud to the family
  • An oil bath and new clothes before any of it

Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Maharashtra keeps the same day as Gudi Padwa; Sindhis keep Cheti Chand. Gudi Padwa is the same new year kept in Maharashtra; the nine nights that follow close in Ram Navami.

What people say

Happy Ugadi, or Ugadi Subhakankshalu.

Putting your name on it

  1. Type your name in the box on this page. First name is enough — no email, no password, no account.
  2. Tap GO. Your card opens with your name at the top, on artwork drawn for Ugadi specifically.
  3. Share it. One tap hands it to WhatsApp with the message already written — send it to a person, a group, or your Status. Whoever opens it lands on this same page with their own name box waiting, so it carries on down the family group without anyone installing anything.

Add your name to an Ugadi wish

Straight answers

What is Ugadi pachadi?
A mixture holding all six tastes — neem for bitter, jaggery for sweet, raw mango for sour, tamarind for tang, chilli for heat and salt. It is eaten first thing, as a reminder that a year contains all of them.
Is Ugadi the same as Gudi Padwa?
Same day, different regions and customs. Ugadi is kept in the Telugu and Kannada states; Gudi Padwa is Maharashtra's version of the same new year.
What is the panchangam reading?
The new year's almanac, read aloud at the temple or at home, setting out the year's predictions for weather, harvest and the individual signs.
How do I send an Ugadi wish with my name on it?
Type your name in the box on this page and tap GO. You get a card that opens with your name on it, and a button that hands the whole thing to WhatsApp. It is free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Is this Ugadi greeting really free?
Yes. No account, no watermark, no upgrade prompt and nothing to install. Your name travels inside the link rather than being stored anywhere.
Can I add a photo to my Ugadi wish?
Not at the moment. This puts your name on original artwork drawn for Ugadi rather than your photo on a template, so there is no upload step. If a photo frame is what you are after, one of the photo-frame sites will serve you better.
Can I download my Ugadi wish as an image?
No, and that is deliberate. It is a live page rather than a picture file, so it always opens crisp — never a screenshot re-compressed for the tenth time — and you share it as a link instead of an attachment.

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