Festivals & Panchang

Vishu 2027: Date and the Vishukkani Tradition

A Malayali colleague once brought a box of jackfruit and gold-coin-shaped sweets to the office in mid-April and called it "the first thing I

A friend's wedding card once had a line I hadn't seen before: "post Devutthana." I assumed it was a venue reference until her mother explain

My sister still keeps a specific steel thali, unused the rest of the year, just for Bhai Dooj tilak. When I asked why not just use any plate

Every Sawan, my mother-in-law puts out a small bowl of milk near the tulsi plant on a specific Friday or Sunday, and it took me two years of

A colleague once asked me why her father, otherwise not particularly ritual-minded, suddenly stops eating onion and garlic and fasts every M

The nitya yoga is the only panchāṅga limb built from a sum of longitudes, and the karaṇa is half a tithi. Here is how both are computed and

Rāhu Kāla is one eighth of the time from sunrise to sunset, so it moves with your city and the season. The fixed ninety minute table is an a

Abhijit is the eighth of fifteen daylight divisions, it moves with your longitude, and it is specifically excepted on Wednesdays.

A tithi is 12 degrees of Moon-Sun separation, so it stretches and compresses. That is why two panchangas can disagree about a festival date.

Look up Ekadashi 2027 on two different sites and you will likely find one date a day apart from the other, at least twice in the year. That…

Karva Chauth 2027 falls on Tuesday, 19 October. The vrat closes at moonrise, a local event, so one national time cannot be right for everyon

Hanuman Jayanti 2027 falls on 20 April in the Chaitra Pūrṇimā reckoning. Here is why other regions keep a different day and why both are leg