Today is the first day of the Hindu New Year. This is the month of Chaitra, and the waxing phase of the moon begins, heralding a new Samvat, year 2062 of the Vikrami calendar. In Sanskrit, this date is called Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.

Today is also the beginning of Navratri, the nine days of worshipping Shakti, the female creative force.

According to legend, among other things, on this day Lord Rama was coronated as the King of Ayodhya; Vikramaditya* was coronated as the Emperor of India; and King Yudhisthira became the just ruler after the war of Mahabharata.

May the day bring a new creative energy in all you do henceforth.

[*The most famous king given the title of Vikramaditya was Chandragupta II, c. 400 AD, of the Gupta dynasty. But many claim that the Vikrami calendar starts from the day of Vikramaditya's coronation. As far as I know, this is not borne by historical facts, since there was no famous king named thus in 57 BC, from when the calendar starts. There was also a famous Chalukya king named Vikramaditya, but he was in the 11th century, so can't be the one from whose time the calendar begins.]