Tajikistan, motherland of Navruz – history, traditions, and contemporary diplomacy

By Dr. Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda
Dean of the Diplomatic Corps,
Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan

Navruz, the “new day,” has traveled through more than three thousand years of human history, yet it remains surprisingly young. Each spring, when the sun reaches the point of the vernal equinox and light begins to triumph over winter’s darkness, the Tajik people greet not only a change of weather, but a renewal of meaning. In Tajikistan, Navruz is felt as something intimate and ancestral: a living thread tying the present…