New Year celebrations in Maharashtra, India, feature a Gudhi, which is a festive cloth pegged to a long rod, adorned with flowers, neem and other spring leaves, gathya (candied sugar strings) and topped by a metal goblet. It is flown like a flag from every home on the New Year's Day, a festival called Gudhi Padva, which typically falls in March-April of the Gregorian year. 
Every year, a few days before the new year, these multi-coloured sweets and fragrant leaves fill the roadside stalls. Fruit and flower sellers, as well as a host of roadside vendors take this opportunity to make some sales, and children look forward to chewing on the sweets, a welcome relief after eating the bitter neem leaves, which is a tradition symbolizing the destruction of problems and bitterness from the past year and beginning the new one on a sweet note.
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