Festivals & Panchang

Purnima 2027: Every Full Moon Date and Time

Purnima, the full moon night, is the counterpart to Amavasya and one of the two Tithis every Hindu calendar month is built around. Satyanara

Griha Pravesh, the housewarming ceremony performed before moving into a new home, is one of those rituals where the date genuinely matters t

Sankashti Chaturthi comes around every lunar month, and devotees of Lord Ganesha treat it as one of the more demanding fasts on the calendar

Tulsi Vivah closes out the wedding season pause of Chaturmas by staging one final, symbolic wedding: the marriage of the Tulsi plant, worshi

Amavasya, the new moon night, comes around once every lunar month and quietly shapes a lot of what Hindus plan their calendars around, from

A friend's mother-in-law once sent over a plastic tub of ghewar and green bangles two days before I even knew Teej season had started. That

I used to assume Baisakhi and Vishu were unrelated regional festivals that just happened to fall around the same week. They're actually the

A colleague from Delhi and one from Pune once argued, entirely good-naturedly, about which date Vat Savitri actually fell on that year. Neit

I once asked why a fast named after an "abduction" is one of the most popular vrats for married women in North India. The answer turned out

A colleague once told me his family drives back to their ancestral village every single year for a specific 15-day window, no matter what el

A relative once spent longer picking a date for her son's first haircut than she did picking his school. That sounded excessive until I actu

A relative once told me she'd rather do a full week of ordinary fasting than one day of Nirjala Ekadashi. That struck me as an odd trade unt