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Celebrate India
India's calendar bursts with religious, regional, musical, cultural and culinary celebrations. Filter by month, type or state to plan around the right moment.
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Indian festivals mostly follow lunar calendars, so the exact days shift each year. We name the month they fall in and leave the day to the panchang closer to the time.
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Use the calendar when timing is the main decision, or browse the directory for context, location and meaning.
Puri, Odisha is the grand epicenter, though celebrated on smaller scales across India.
The grand chariot festival of Puri where the deities Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra are pulled on massive wooden chariots by millions of devotees — a symbol of radical equality.
Heavily centered at the Shree Shree Govindajee Temple complex in Imphal, Manipur, as well as major local community temples across the valley.
The grand Meitei wooden chariot festival mirroring Puri's Rath Yatra, moving deities across city lanes.
The historic Chaturdasha Devata Temple at Old Agartala (Puran Agartala), Tripura.
A ancient royal-tribal ritual where fourteen tribal patron deities are cleansed in the river to purify mother earth.
Jowai town, West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya.
A fascinating festival of the Pnar tribe to drive away diseases, featuring water logging mud fights and floating tall towers.
The coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in Karnataka, and Kasaragod in Kerala (collectively known as Tulu Nadu).
A traditional mud-laden sports carnival where farmers race pairs of buffalos through waterlogged slushy paddy tracks.
Rotates between Prayagraj, Haridwar, Nashik, and Ujjain.
A mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith where devotees gather to bathe at sacred river confluences, believed to cleanse sins and grant liberation (moksha). Recognised by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The sacred Mahamaham Tank in Kumbakonam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.
A massive scale holy tank bathing pilgrimage believed to collect the currents of nine sacred rivers to wash away sins.
Smit village, Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya.
An elegant harvest thanksgiving dance of the indigenous Khasi tribe performed by the royal family in heavy gold attire.
Medaram village, situated deep inside the dense Tadvai forest zone, Mulugu district, Telangana.
The largest tribal religious congregation in the world, honoring mother goddesses who fought feudal oppression.
North Malabar region (Kannur, Kasaragod districts) of Kerala
An ancient ritual dance-theater where artists undergo divine transformation, becoming living gods to grant village blessings.
