Songkran is the new year in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. The south east asian countries celebrates one of its biggest festival of the year. Everyone puts the white chalk like powder and throws water on others to wish Happy New Year :)
The concept of the festival is like Holi in India minus the colours.
Sankranti is the Oriya and Bengali new year which is mostly towards mid April. In Orissa it is also known as Maha Vishu Sankranti for the religious people offer Pana(a delious drink made of Fruits, dry fruits, condensed sweet milk, curd and may be Marijuana) to the auspicious Basil plant, the Linga of Lord shiva. This drink is also celebrated by sharing between family, relatives and community.
As both Songkran and Shankranti is the start of the year in South east asia and East India, hence Songkran = Shankranti
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