{"id":79085,"date":"2025-12-22T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=79085"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:07:09","slug":"chillai-kalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chillai-kalan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chillai-Kalan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Chillai-Kalan Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Kashmir braces for a spell of rain and snowfall and the region is also set to enter \u2018Chillai Kalan\u2019,<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Chillai-Kalan<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>40-day period of the harshest winter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cold in <\/span><b>Kashmir region.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chillai Kalan is a <\/span><b>Persian term<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which means <\/span><b>\u201cMajor Cold\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chillai Kalan (big cold) usually begins on <\/span><b>December 21<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and will end on January 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this time Kashmir Valley faces its <\/span><b>harshest phase of the winter season<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including widespread snowfall, sub-zero temperatures and intense cold waves.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chillai Kalan is followed by \u2018<\/span><b>Chillai-Khurd\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (small cold)\u2013 a 20-day period of moderate winter from January 31 to February 19, and the 10-day <\/span><b>\u2018Chillai-Bacha\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (baby cold), towards the fag end of the winter season from February 20 to March 2.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Cultural Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> According <\/span><b>to Persian tradition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the night of 21st December is celebrated as <\/span><b>Shab-e Yalda-\u201cNight of Birth\u201d, or Shab-e Chelleh. \u2013 \u201cNight of Forty\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Impacts of Chillai Kalan<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditionally, heavy snowfall during <\/span><b>Chillai Kalan replenishes water reservoirs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the higher reaches, sustaining rivers, streams and lakes during the summer months.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/jammu-and-kashmir\/snow-rain-in-kashmir-chillai-kalan\/article70422055.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chillai-Kalan is the 40-day period of the harshest winter cold in Kashmir region. Read more about Chillai-Kalan, Cultural Significance, Impacts, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4352],"class_list":{"0":"post-79085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-chillai-kalan","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79085","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}