What are the special occasions or festivals in India?
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The Annual Beef Bar-B-Q yummmm
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Dasara or Dussehra is an Indian festival celebrated \nas Navaratri/Vijaya-Dashami, in worship of Goddess Durga. It is also celebrated as Lord Rama's victory over Rawana. The celebrations vary from a day to nine days (for Navaratri) to a month (for Mysore Dasara). Each day has a relevance and nine forms of the diety are worshipped with a lot of devotion. People wake up early in the morning and take a nice shower and start the puja(worship). They also make lots of food and offer to the God, wear new clothes and families gather at the evenings and sing songs in praise of the Goddess Durga. The Goddess blesses anyone who performs all the rituals sincerely.
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every corporation has different holidays
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Every month has some kinda of holiday in it, I think. Or did you mean national holidays?
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You can go to the Holiday section but here are Jewish holidays. Rosh Hashanah, Yom kIppur, Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Purim, Pesach, Rosh Chodesh, Lag B'Omer, Shavuot, Tu Bishvat. There are also days of mourning.
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in between may and june,go to\nwww.aieee.nic.in
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It is the Parsi new year...an indian festival. It's like a new year's for them...and it celebrates the advent of spring and "The symbolic victory of the forces of light over darkness"
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Diwali celebrated by Hindus the world over is the biggest festive in the Hindu calender. Its celebrated with lights lit in homes and prayers offered to Lord Krishna.
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I am an Indian\n\nPopular Hindu spring festival. It takes place over two days around late March or early April. As per the Hindu calendar, it falls on the Phalgun Purnima (or Pooranmashi, Full Moon). It is also called the Festival of Colour.\n\nOn the first day, a bonfire is lit at night to signify burning Holika. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people go around until afternoon throwing coloured powder and water at each other, although the powder stings the eyes. A special drink called 'thandai' or bhang is also consumed sometimes, which actually contains small amounts of marijuana (Cannabis sativa). People invite each other to their houses for feasts and celebrations later in the evening. Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities involving colours.\n\nThis festival occurs at the onset of spring. This period, during which the weather changes, is prone to cause viral fever and cold. Thus, the playful throwing of the coloured powders has a medicinal significance as the coloured powders are made of Neem, Kumkum, Haldi, Bilva, and other medicinal herbs prescribed by Āyurvedic doctors.\n\nMythology\n\nHiranyakashipu was the king of demons, and he had been granted a boon by Brahma, which made it almost impossible for him to be killed. The boon was due to his long penance, after which he had demanded that he not be killed "during day or night; inside the home or outside; not on earth or on sky; neither by a man nor an animal; neither by astra nor by shastra". Consequently, he grew arrogant, and attacked the Heavens and the Earth. He demanded that people stop worshipping gods and start praying to him.\n\nDespite this, Hiranyakashipu's own son, Prahlad, was a devotee of Lord Vishnu. In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlad continued offering prayers to Lord Vishnu. He was poisoned but the poison turned to nectar in his mouth. He was ordered to be trampled by elephants yet remained unharmed. He was put in a room with hungry, poisonous snakes and survived. All of Hiranyakashipu's attempts to kill his son failed. Finally, he ordered young Prahlad to sit on a pyre on the lap of his sister, Holika, who could not die by fire by virtue of a shawl which would prevent fire affecting the person wearing it. Prahlad readily accepted his father's orders, and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe. When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as the shawl flew from Holika, who then was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived unharmed, after the shawl moved to cover him. The burning of Holika is celebrated as Holi.\n\nIt is also said that later Lord Vishnu came in the form of a Narasimha (who is half-man and half-lion) and killed Hiranyakashipu at dusk (which was neither day nor night), on the steps of the porch of his house (which was neither inside the house nor outside) by restraining him on his lap (which is neither in the sky nor on the earth) and mauling him with his claws (which are neither astra nor shastra).\n\nIn Vrindavan and Mathura, where Lord Krishna grew up, the festival is celebrated for 16 days (until Rangpanchmi in commemoration of the divine love of Radha for Krishna). Lord Krishna is believed to have popularized the festival by playing pranks on the gopis here. Krishna is believed to be complained to his mother about the contrast between his dark colour and his consort Radha's fair colour. Krishna's mother decided to apply colour to Radha's face. The celebrations officially usher in spring, the celebrated season of love.\n\nThere is another story about the origin of holi. Kamadeva is a god of love. Kama's body was destroyed when he shot his weapon at Shiva in order to disrupt his penance and help Parvati to marry Shiva. Shiva then opened his third eye, the gaze of which was so powerful that Kama's body was reduced to ashes. For the sake of Kama's wife Rati (passion), Shiva restored h
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Have you thought about making a family scrapbook to highlight special events.......
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Diwali is biggest and most imp in INDIA
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For weddings and other important events
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Diwali festival came from hindu religion and Halloween festival came from christian religion. Diwali is the festival of goddess and money but halloween is the festival of evils and devils . Regarding lights even in chrismas we have lights . So instead of making similar it would be better to take as a different culture but lots of fun.
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This is a good place to start:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays_in_India
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For the most part the rites and ceremonies consist of lighting balefires,feasting and merrymaking.The solstice is also sacred to Vadir the Silent God,God of Vengeance and Retribution.Blots are held in his honour at Midsummer.
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It's the day on which lord \nkrishna was born.
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If I remember right I think it is INDIAN SUMMER ???\nLet me know if it rings a bell.