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Friday november 15, 2024Deepavali/DipabaliHinduism
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Friday november 15, 2024Rahasa PurnimaHinduism
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Saturday november 16, 2024Kartar Singh Srabha dayHinduism
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Monday november 18, 2024Kanakadasa JayantiHinduism
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Wednesday november 20, 2024Regional holidayHinduism
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Thursday december 12, 2024Nupi LalHinduism
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Sunday december 15, 2024Hindu festivalHinduism
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Thursday january 2, 2025Mannam celebrationHinduism
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Monday january 6, 2025Birthday of Sri Guru Gobind Singh JiHinduism
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Monday january 13, 2025Shakambhari dayHinduism
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Monday january 13, 2025Shakambhari celebrationHinduism
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Monday january 13, 2025BhogiHinduism
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Monday january 13, 2025Regional holidayHinduism
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Tuesday january 14, 2025Makar Sankranti/Pongal/Magh Bihu/Tusu PujaHinduism
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Tuesday january 14, 2025Optional holidayHinduism
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Tuesday january 14, 2025Magh SankratiHinduism
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Tuesday january 14, 2025Magh Bihu/Tusu Puja - PongalHinduism
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Wednesday january 15, 2025KanumaHinduism
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Wednesday january 15, 2025Magh Bihu/Tusu Puja - PongalHinduism
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Thursday january 16, 2025Uzhavar ThirunalHinduism
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Friday january 17, 2025Uzhavar ThirunalHinduism
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Thursday january 30, 2025Day of OfferingsHinduism
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Friday january 31, 2025Me-Dum-Me-PhiHinduism
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Sunday february 2, 2025Optional holidayHinduism
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Sunday february 2, 2025Vasant Panchami - Basanta PanchamiHinduism
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Tuesday february 4, 2025Sri Devnarayan dayHinduism
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Wednesday february 5, 2025Guru Ravidas celebrationHinduism
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Monday february 10, 2025Durga Puja (Dashami)Hinduism
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Tuesday february 11, 2025Thaipoosam CavadeeHinduism
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Wednesday february 19, 2025Anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajHinduism
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Wednesday february 26, 2025Maha ShivaratriHinduism
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Wednesday february 26, 2025Optional holidayHinduism
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Friday february 28, 2025Buddhist New Year - LosarHinduism
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Deepavali/Dipabali

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Friday november 15, 2024
Hinduism : Light festival starts with festivities. The week celebrates 1.Dhanteras, 2.Kali Chaudas, 3.Deepavali, 4.Navu-Varsha (new year), 5.Bhai-beej. The Vai cast is mainly concerned. May last several days

Rahasa Purnima

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Friday november 15, 2024
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Kartar Singh Srabha day

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Saturday november 16, 2024
Hinduism : Kartar Singh Sarabha (24 May 1896 – 16 November 1915) was an Indian Sikh revolutionary who is among the most famous and reputed martyrs of Punjab. He was only 17 years old when he became a member of Ghadar Party, then came up as a leading luminary member and started fight for an independent India. He was one the most active persons in the movement. Singh was executed at Lahore in November 1915 for his role in the movement in February 1915 when he was only 19 years old. [Wikipedia]

Kanakadasa Jayanti

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Monday november 18, 2024
Hinduism : Celebrates the birth anniversary of Saint and Poet Kanaka Dasa, one of the greatest social reformers of Karnataka and who is equally noted for his musical compositions.

Regional holiday

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Wednesday november 20, 2024
Hinduism : Namami Barak festival in Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj

Nupi Lal

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Thursday december 12, 2024
Hinduism : Tribute to the Manipuri women who lost their lives in the revolt against the British rulers in 1939.

Hindu festival

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Sunday december 15, 2024
Hinduism : Sakela is the main festival of Kirat which is celebrated twice a year distinguished by two names Ubhauli and Udhauli. Sakela Ubhauli is celebrated during Baisakh Purnima (full moon day in the month of Baishak) and Sakela Udhauli is celebrated during the full moon day in the month of Mangsir.

Mannam celebration

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Thursday january 2, 2025
Hinduism : Mannathu Padmanabhan (January 2, 1878 - February 25, 1970) was a social reformer and a freedom fighter from the State of Kerala, India. He is recognised as the founder of the Nair Service Society, which claims to represent the Nair community that constitutes almost 14.5% of the population of the state. Padmanabhan is considered as a visionary reformer who organised the Nair community under the NSS [Wikipedia]

Birthday of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji

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Monday january 6, 2025
Hinduism : (22 December 1666 - 7 October 1708) is the tenth of eleven Sikh gurus. Born in Patna, Bihar in India, he was also a warrior, poet and philosopher. He succeeded his father Guru Tegh Bahadur as the leader of Sikhs at a young age of nine. He contributed much to Sikhism; notable was his contribution to the continual formalisation of the faith which the first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev had founded, as a religion, in the 15th century. Wikipedia

Shakambhari day

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Monday january 13, 2025
Hinduism : A goddess of nourishment

Shakambhari celebration

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Monday january 13, 2025
Hinduism : Shakambhari is an incarnation of Parvati. Her name means The One who nourished mankind with fruits and vegetables . It is said that in the end of a hundred-year lasting famine, the supreme Paramashakti incarnated as Shatakshi-Shakambhari and gave food to the starving. Shakambhari devi is the third form of the Mother as depicted in the Murti Rahasyam part of The Devi-mahatmyam or most popularly, Sri Sri Durga Saptashati/Sri Sri Chandi , [Wikipedia]

Bhogi

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Monday january 13, 2025
Hinduism : The day preceding Makara Sankranti. This is when people discard old and derelict things and concentrate on new things causing change or transformation. At dawn people light a bonfire with logs of wood, other solid-fuels and wooden furniture at home that are no longer useful. The disposal of derelict things is where all old habits, the vices, attachment to relations and materials things are sacrificed in the sacrificial fire of the knowledge of Rudra, known as the Rudra Gita Gyan Yagya. It represents realization, transformation and purification of the soul by imbibing and inculcating divine virtues.

Regional holiday

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Monday january 13, 2025
Hinduism : Lohri: This agricultural winter festival is celebrated throughout Punjab and in parts of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Jammu. Jammu only Wikipedia

Makar Sankranti/Pongal/Magh Bihu/Tusu Puja

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Tuesday january 14, 2025
Hinduism : Celebration of the harvest, which is observed for three days: Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal and Mattu Pongal. A colourful and traditional festival with many a ceremony devoted to various deities and cattle races.

Optional holiday

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Tuesday january 14, 2025
Hinduism : Magh Sankrati

Magh Sankrati

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Tuesday january 14, 2025
Hinduism : One of the religious festival of Nepali community. The day is auspicious for holy bathing since it is considered that all the sins or diseases of body will be removed by the blessing of Sun God.

Magh Bihu/Tusu Puja - Pongal

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Tuesday january 14, 2025
Hinduism : The symbol is the movement from one place to another which leads to meeting someone or something. The sun leaves its present constellation to get into Sakranti .

Kanuma

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Wednesday january 15, 2025
Hinduism : The third day of the festival of Makar Sankranti

Magh Bihu/Tusu Puja - Pongal

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Wednesday january 15, 2025
Hinduism : Celebration of the harvest, which is observed for three days: Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal and Mattu Pongal. A colourful and traditional festival with many a ceremony devoted to various deities and cattle races.

Uzhavar Thirunal

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Thursday january 16, 2025
Hinduism : Also called Thai Pongal: a harvest festival celebrated by Tamils Unusually for South Indian Hindu festivals, Thai Pongal is timed by an astronomical event - the winter solstice. Pongal is traditionally dedicated to the Sun God Surya and marks the beginning of the northward journey of the Sun from its southernmost-limit, a movement traditionally referred to as uttarayana. [Wikipedia]

Uzhavar Thirunal

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Friday january 17, 2025
Hinduism : Also called Thai Pongal: a harvest festival celebrated by Tamils Unusually for South Indian Hindu festivals, Thai Pongal is timed by an astronomical event - the winter solstice. Pongal is traditionally dedicated to the Sun God Surya and marks the beginning of the northward journey of the Sun from its southernmost-limit, a movement traditionally referred to as uttarayana. [Wikipedia]

Day of Offerings

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Thursday january 30, 2025
Hinduism : Women sing and dance, men play archery, picnics are organized more popular in Eastern Bhutan

Me-Dum-Me-Phi

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Friday january 31, 2025
Hinduism : Celebrated by the Ahom people in memory of the departed. It is the manifestation of the concept of ancestor worship that the Ahoms share with other peoples originating from the Tai-Shan stock. It is a festival to show respect to the departed ancestors and remember their contribution to society. [Wikipedia]

Optional holiday

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Sunday february 2, 2025
Hinduism : Basant Panchami

Vasant Panchami - Basanta Panchami

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Sunday february 2, 2025
Hinduism : Vasant means, the spring season . This is the great spring festival, falling on the fifth day of the month of Magh, the first day of spring. On this day everyone wears a yellow cloth. It represents the ripening of the spring crops. Even the food is coloured yellow by using saffron. Spiritually, the yellow colour is a sign of prosperity; it is the colour of love. On this day we offer special worship to the sun god, to Mother Ganga (the deity of the sacred river Ganges), and Mother Earth. They provide us the means of acquiring food and all that we need to keep alive. We express our gratitude to them by worshipping them. Hindus are ever mindful of the debt they owe to all nature. Worship of nature is extremely important to them.

Sri Devnarayan day

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Tuesday february 4, 2025
Hinduism : Lord protector of cows

Guru Ravidas celebration

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Wednesday february 5, 2025
Hinduism : Guru or Bhagat Ravidas (also Raidas) was a north Indian Sant mystic of the bhakti movement who was active in the 15th century CE. Venerated in northern India and in the Indian state of Maharashtra, he is the Satguru of the Ravidasi sect and one of the fifteen Bhagats of the Sikhs. His devotional songs and verses made a lasting impact upon the bhakti movement.

Durga Puja (Dashami)

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Monday february 10, 2025
Hinduism : The main festival in Bengal in tribute to goddess Durga. Bengalis celebrate with new clothes and other gifts which are worn on the evenings when the family goes out to see the pandals (temporary structures set up to venerate Durga).

Thaipoosam Cavadee

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Tuesday february 11, 2025
Hinduism : Tamil celebration. Marks the end of a 10-day fasting period during which people go to the local temple and get themselves pierced with various needles attached to various object.

Anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

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Wednesday february 19, 2025
Hinduism : Shivaji was born in February 19, and passed away on April 3, 1680. Shivaji Maharaj is instrumental in carving Maharastra from alien powers, especially the Mughals. He united the Maratha chiefs of Mayal, Konkan and Desh regions for a stronger Maratha nation.

Maha Shivaratri

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Wednesday february 26, 2025
Hinduism : A Hindu festival in honor of Lord Shiva and his marriage to Goddess Parvati. Ceremonies involving prayers and hymns take place mostly at night.

Optional holiday

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Wednesday february 26, 2025
Hinduism : Maha Shivaratri Hindu community

Buddhist New Year - Losar

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Friday february 28, 2025
Hinduism :