{"id":6271,"date":"2026-03-21T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:17:28","slug":"what-is-navroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-navroz\/","title":{"rendered":"Navroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Navroz Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister of India greeted people on the occasion of Parsi New Year, Navroz.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Navroz<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navroz is an <\/span><b>Iranian and Persian New year.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u2018<\/span><b>nov\u2019 means \u2018new\u2019 and roz means \u2018day\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Therefore, the word translates to a new day.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It marks the <\/span><b>beginning of the spring season<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is celebrated with great fervour by members of the <\/span><b>Parsi community across the globe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Historical Background<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowruz\u2019s origins can be traced back to the <\/span><b>ancient Persian empire and the Zoroastrian<\/b> <b>calendar,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where it marked one of the holiest days of the year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival of Nowruz is <\/span><b>named after the Persian king, Jamshed,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who is credited for creating the Persian or the Shahenshahi calendar.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is said that the festival came to India courtesy of an 18th-century wealthy tradesman from Surat, Nusservanji Kohyaji, who often travelled to Iran and began celebrating Nowruz in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is listed in the <\/span><b>list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>Humanity of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/pm-modi-greets-people-on-parsi-new-year-navroz-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News On Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navroz is an Iranian and Persian New year. Read more about Navroz, Historical Background, Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6259,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-6271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-navroz","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94125,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/94125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}