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India keeps several new years, and this page is about January The first of January is the new year the office marks. It is not the one most Indian households mark. Gudi Padwa and Ugadi fall on the same day in Chaitra, in March or early April. Puthandu in Tamil Nadu, Vishu in Kerala, Baisakhi in Punjab and Poila Boishakh in Bengal cluster in mid April. Bestu Varas, the Gujarati new year, is the day after Diwali. Navreh is Chaitra for Kashmiri Pandits, and Losar moves with the Tibetan calendar. If the gift is for one of those, the day is what decides the piece, not the month, and we keep separate pages for Gudi Padwa , Ugadi and Diwali . In India the January gift is mostly given across a desk Worth saying plainly, because it changes what to buy. The first of January in India is largely a work occasion: employees, clients, distributors, the accountant, the doctor, the building staff. Family gifting happens at the household new year and at Diwali. The other large January flow is people abroad sending something home. Both of those want the same qualities from a piece and they are not the qualities a personal gift wants. It has to work as one design across a list of people you do not know equally well, it has to look right without being explained, and it must not assume anything about the person opening it. The safe piece when you do not know the household The Kamdhenu cow with calf is the one that carries the fewest assumptions. It is read everywhere as plenty and as the year providing, it works as a decorative object as much as a devotional one, and it is not tied to a sect, a region or a language. It is also the piece we hold in the greatest depth, which is what makes it usable for a long list. A Ganesha is the least presumptuous deity piece for the same reason, since he is invoked at the start of anything by almost everyone who observes anything at all. A Lakshmi Ganesh pair is the standing new-year gift to a household. For a South Indian list, a Balaji face. Where yo