Akshaya Tritiya is one of the most sacred and widely observed days in the Hindu calendar, often associated with unending ...

Sita Navami, also known as Sita Jayanti, is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Goddess Sita, the divine consort of Lord ...

It was January, and I was headed 80 miles west to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, a Hindu religious festival in which tens of millions of pilgrims come together at the convergence of two real ...

Here is a list of festivals, events and auspicious timings. Click on the links below to know more about each festival/event and get information about when, why and how these are celebrated.

Between themed TV specials, novelty candy flavors and the pageantry of the mass-produced costume, Halloween has become so thoroughly Americanized that we often forget the holiday grew from much ...