Q: New Year

[soumitra at ix.netcom.com]

You wrote: 
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>>Apri 13, 1996 (solar). Thais and Khmer also follow solar calendar,
>The last 13 April was Thai new year. Af far as I know, the exact day 
also
>varies every year according to the moon.
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>A.V.
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We bengalis have a beautiful method. We always had the debate of the 
solar and the lunar calendar.Akbar (though he was very unpopular and 
could not get a strong foothold) started bengali calendar in 
concordance with the Muslim Hiri calendar, but he made some sort of a 
compromise with all the hindu pundits(in favour of Solar) and Muslim 
ulemas(in favour of lunar ) and invented this BEngali calendar which 
has both the elements , very interestingly it goes along with the 
English calendar, we have bothe solar and lunar phases in our calendar.