India Land of Culture And Tradition Festivals

India is well known all over the world as highly spiritual country.  The only country of cultural and traditional where festivals are the heart of people’s lives in India. We celebrate different cultures and religions festivals in India every month.  Full of diversity in the religions, languages, cultures and castes offer way of seeing Indian culture at its best. Every festival is celebrated following Indian festival calendar in different states with different style. 

Unity in diversity can be seen in Indians of various religions Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Christian, every festival is celebrated with great happiness and joy.   According to the religions and culture, festivals are mainly celebrated in India such as National, Religious and Seasonal

National Festivals are celebrated as the remembrance of important dates which makes us feel proud and have super-patriotic. For example the three National festivals of India are Republic day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti.

Seasonal Festivals This festival is celebrated with change of season or harvesting of crops. The main seasonal festivals in India include Basant Panchami, Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Lohri, Onam, Baisakhi, Bhogali bihu, etc.

Religious Festivals are those which different religion people celebrate with their own style and rituals. The main religion festivals of India are Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Diwali, Krishna Janamastami, Durga-Puja, Dussehra, Maha Shivaratri, Eid, Christmas, Easter, Buddha Purnima, Mahavir Jayanti, etc. The date of holidays according to Indian Festival Calendar are listed below

~||~January~||~

1-Friday        New Year
14-Thursday    Lohri
15-Friday         Pongal Makar Sankranti
16-Saturday      Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
20-Wednesday  Tailang Swami Jayanti
23-Saturday       Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti
26-Tuesday         Republic Day

31-Sunday          Swami Vivekananda Jayanti 

~||~February~||~ 

12-Friday     Vasant Panchami
22-Monday     Guru Ravidas Jayanti 

~||~March~||~

4-Friday    Maharishi Dayanand Jayanti
7-Monday     Maha Shivaratri
10-Thursday   Ramakrishna Jayanti
23-Wednesday Chhoti Holi
24-Thursday     Holi
25-Friday        Good Friday
26-Saturday    Shivaji Jayanti
27-Sunday      Easter  

~||~April~||~

1-Friday      Bank's Holiday
8-Friday      Gudi Padwa, Ugadi
9-Saturday     Jhulelal Jayanti
13-Wednesday     Baisakhi
14-Thursday     Ambedkar Jayanti
15-Friday        Rama Navami
19-Tuesday     Mahavir Swami Jayanti
21-Thursday    Hazarat Ali's Birthday  

~||~May~||~

3-Tuesday     Vallabhacharya Jayanti
7-Saturday    Rabindranath Jayanti
11-Wednesday    Surdas Jayanti
21-Saturday     Buddha Purnima

~||~June~||~ 

7-Tuesday Maharana Pratap Jayanti
20-Monday Kabirdas Jayanti
21-Tuesday Longest Day of Year   

~||~July~||~

1-Friday     Jamat Ul-Vida
6-Wednesday     Jagannath Rathyatra
7-Thursday     Eid al-Fitr

~||~August~||~

10-Wednesday     Tulsidas Jayanti
15-Monday         Independence Day
18-Thursday       Rakhi
25-Thursday      Krishna Janmashtami 

~||~September~||~

5-Monday         Ganesh Chaturthi
13-Tuesday       Onam
22-Thursday     Autumnal Equinox  

~||~October~||~

1-Saturday     Maharaja Agresen Jayanti
2-Sunday            Gandhi Jayanti
3-Monday           Al-Hijra
9-Sunday             Durga Ashtami
10-Monday          Maha Navami
11-Tuesday          Dussehra
12-Wednesday     Day of Ashura
16-Sunday          Valmiki Jayanti
19-Wednesday     Karwa Chauth
29-Saturday        Narak Chaturdashi
30-Sunday         Diwali, Lakshmi Puja
31-Monday        Gowardhan Puja

~||~November~||~

1-Tuesday      Bhaiya Dooj
6-Sunday       Chhath Puja
14-Monday     Guru Nanak Jayanti

~||~December~||~

12-Monday          Milad an-Nabi
21-Wednesday     Shortest Day of Year
25-Sunday           Merry Christmas

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