Welcome to Festivals

30 Apr 2012

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India, being a culturally diverse and fervent society, celebrates various holidays and festivals. There are three national holidays in India: Independence Day (India), Republic Day (India) and Gandhi Jayanti. States and regions have local festivals depending on prevalent religious and linguistic demographics. Popular religious festivals include the Hindu festivals of Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Holi, Dussehra, Islamic festivals of Eid ul-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid an-Nabī and Christian festivals of Christmas and days of observances such as Good Friday are observed throughout the country.

Welcome to Festivals! This section of the website gives you different angles on a variety of topics, and helps you learn about our festivals.

Please feel free to explore. As always, we welcome your feedback!

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