Basant (1960 Film)
Basant may refer to: * Basant (season), the spring season * Basant (festival), a historic kite festival in the region of Punjab * Basant (raga), an Indian classical raga * Basant (film), ''Basant'' (film), a 1942 Indian film *Vasant (magazine), ''Vasant'' (magazine), Indian Gujarati-language magazine See also

*Vasanta (other) *Basanti (other) *Vasant Panchami, a springtime Hindu festival {{Disambiguation ...
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Basant (season)
Vasanta ( sa, वसन्त, lit=Spring, translit=Vasantā), also referred to as Basant, refers to the Ritu (Indian season), Indian spring. One of the main festivals of the Vasanta season is celebrated on ''Vasanta Panchami'' ( sa, वसन्त पञ्चमी), which in Indian society is a cultural and religious festival, celebrated annually on the first day of spring, the fifth day (Panchami) of the Hindu month ''Maagha, Magha'' (January–February). Origin In Sanskrit ''Vasanta'' means ''spring''. Panchami is the fifth day of ''Shukla Paksha'', the fortnight of the waxing moon in the Hindu month of Magha, (January – February). Vasanta Panchami, which marks the end of the winter and heralds in spring, is dedicated to goddess Saraswati. She is a goddess of water and of a river bearing her name. Her water originates in the Himalayas, flows southeast and meets the Ganges at Prayag near its confluence with the Yamuna (Triveni). Saraswati is also a goddess of speech ...
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Basant (festival)
Basant is a spring time kite flying event during the Basant Panchami festival in the Punjab. It falls on Basant, also called Basant Panchami. According to the Punjabi calendar it is held on the fifth day of lunar month of Magha (in late January or early February) marking the start of spring. Central/Majha Punjab Amritsar, Lahore, and Kasur are the traditional areas where kite flying festivals are held. A popular Basant Mela is held in Lahore (see Festivals of Lahore). However, the festival has also been traditionally celebrated in areas such as Sialkot, Gujranwala and Gurdaspur. Historically, Maharaja Ranjit Singh held an annual Basant fair and introduced kite flying as a regular feature of the fairs held during the 19th century which included holding fairs at Sufi shrines. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his queen Moran would dress in yellow and fly kites on Basant. The association of kite flying with Basant soon became a Punjabi tradition with the centre in Lahore which rem ...
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Basant (raga)
Basant or Vasant is a Hindustani classical music, Hindustani classical raga. Raga Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes that can be used; which notes can be used; and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tune. In the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, there are a total of 60 raga compositions and this raga is the forty-ninth raga to appear in the series. The composition in this raga appear on a total of 29 pages from page numbers (Ang) 1168 to 1170. Basant denotes the changing of the season and the newness of spring. This Raag encourages the mind to brush away its selfishness, just like spring-cleaning removes all the cobwebs and creates a fresh start. There are feelings of hope and expectation of a new beginning and the start of a new cycle. However, these emotions are not dependent on the physical change of the season, but are an encouragement of an internal effort to change. Origin Vasant is a Sanskrit word for "spring". ...
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Basant (film)
''Basant'' () is a 1942 pre-partition Indian romantic musical film directed by Amiya Chakrabarty, produced by Bombay Talkies and starring Mumtaz Shanti and Madhubala along with Ulhas. It revolves around Uma (Shanti), who is left to dance on stage for money when her husband (Ulhas) abandons her. ''Basant'' marked the Hindi film debut of Shanti, who was already a celebrated star in Punjabi film industry. However, the film is largely remembered as the first screen appearance of Madhubala, who played an uncredited role of daughter to Shanti and later became a leading star in the 1950s and early 1960s. The film was theatrically released on 29 July 1942 and was praised by critics for the performances of actors, music and direction. It was major box office success and the highest-grossing film of 1942. The film had a 76-week run in the theatres. As of 2021, ''Basant'' remains one of the fifty highest-grossing Indian films in the history (when adjusted for inflation). Plot Uma and ...
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Vasant (magazine)
''Vasant'' () was a Gujarati-language magazine founded and edited by Anandshankar Dhruv, which ran from 1902 to 1939. The magazine played a key role in the development of Gujarati prose writing, and is considered to hold a significant place in the tradition of Gujarati literary magazines. History Anandshankar Dhruv was a close-friend and disciple of Gujarati writer and philosopher Manilal Dwivedi, and published articles in Manilal's magazine '' Sudarshan''. Following Manilal's death in 1898, Dhruv assumed the editorship of ''Sudarshan'' for about four years. In 1902, realizing that he was unable to develop Manilal's line of thinking and mission further, and feeling himself unfit to follow 's sectarian approach, Dhruv gave up the editorship of the magazine to start his own monthly, ''Vasant''. Dhruv stated the aim of ''Vasant'' in its first issue: Ramanbhai Neelkanth edited the magazine from 1912 to 1924, with Dhruv resuming editorship again from 1925. Irregular publication l ...
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Vasanta (other)
Vasanta or Vasantha may refer to: * Vasanta (Ritu) or Basant, the spring season in the Hindu calendar * Vasantha (raga), a musical scale in Carnatic music * Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat, Uttar Pradesh, India * Vasanta Group Vasanta Group is the UK's largest office supplies company, headquartered in Sheffield. Formed in 2007 after the management buyout of Kingfield Heath, the company then merged with ISA and Supplies Team to form Vasanta Group. It is listed on t ...

Basanti (other)
Basanti or Bashanti may refer to: Entertainment * ''Basanti'' (2000 film), a Nepali romantic film * ''Basanti'' (2008 film), a Punjabi film * Basanti, a character from '' Sholay'' People * Basanti Kumal Chaudhari, Nepalese athlete * Basanti Devi (1880–1974), Indian independence activist * Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (1917–2006), Indian physicist and academic * Basanti Sarma (born 1944), Indian politician * Graham Basanti, Indian female priest Places * Basanti, South 24 Parganas, a town in West Bengal, India ** Basanti (community development block) ** Basanti (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Basanti Assembly constituency is a Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and territories of India, State of West Bengal. It is reserved for Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, Sche ...