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• Festivals of India, October 2010

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  October brings one of my favorite celebrations of India, Karva Chauth. It’s showing of love and devotion to one’s partner by way of Indian pomp and circumstance makes for a tourist’s treat for those traveling [...]

• Festivals of India, September 2010

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  September is a month filled with religious fervor. A generous portion of time is spent celebrating the Hindu god Lord Ganesh through 3 different events. Muslim, Jain, and Sikh religions are also busy giving thanks after the harvest and monsoon seasons. Several notable non-religious holidays also occur in September.

• Festivals of India, July 2010

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  Nag-Panchami is an important all-India festival and is celebrated on the fifth day of the moonlit-fortnight in the month of Shravan (July /August). This is the time when serpents invariably come out of their holes [...]

• Festivals of India, June 2010

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  June is celebrated with several notable festivals both around the entire country and regionally as the monsoons begin to move in bringing some relief to high temps. But, the real celebrations are still a few months away after the much needed rainfall.

• Festivals of India, May 2010

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  Many major festivals celebrated throughout India occur in May yet smaller regional celebrations exist but are not noted. Nehru’s death is among the most revered for All India, being one of the founding fathers of the “new” India in the late 1940′s.

• Festivals of India, April 2010

  In Culture, Events / 28 March 2010 / 0 comments

  

  Kumbha Mela wraps up it’s final month in April. Several holidays are celebrated this month that are not Indian in origin. Jallianwala Day is not celebrated as a festival rather marked as a day of remembrance.