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Rama Navami
Ramanavami or the birthday of Lord Rama is a major Hindu festival celebrated...

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Baisakhi - derives its name from the month of Vaisakha
For Hindus, it's start of new year, celebrated with requisite bathing, partying, and worshipping. It's believed that the goddess Ganga descended to earth thousands of years ago...

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Mahavir Jayanti
The birthday of Lord Mahavira is observed by both the Digambra (Sky-clad) and Svetambra (White-clad) Jains on the 13th day of the bright half of the Chaitra month (March-April)...

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Ambedkar Jayanti
Architect of Indian Constitution and also known as Father of Indian Constitution...

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Holi - Festival of colours
Holi is one of the four most popular festivals observed by all without any distinction of caste, creed, status or sex...

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Maha Shivaratri
Celebrating the festival of Shivaratri devotees observe day and night fast and perform ritual worship of Shiva Lingam to appease Lord Shiva...

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Milad - Un - Nabi
Also called Bara Wafat / Milad-Ul-Nabi - commemorates the birthday of Hazrat Mohmmad and fails on the twelfth day of Rabi-ul-Awwal month...

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Good Friday
while the sun's light failed, and the curtain of the temple was torn into two. Then Jesus crying with a loud voice, said...

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April Fool
April Fools Day celebrates all things silly, but if you find yourself on the receiving end of someone's practical joke, don't be discouraged - you're not alone...

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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is an important holiday in East Asia...

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Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a 2,000-year-old Chinese tradition that closes out the Lunar New Year season...

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Ching Ming
Honoring ancestors with spring prayers...

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Valentine's Day
There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentine's Day. Some experts state that it originated from St. Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity...

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Indian Republic Day
Indian Republic Day is celebrated with much enthusiasm all over the country and especially in capital city, New Delhi...

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Lohri
For the people of North India, Lohri is symbolic of their love for celebrations...

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Pongal
Pongal is one of such highly revered festivals celebrated in Tamil Nadu to mark the harvesting of crops by farmers...

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Hijra - Islamic New Year (Hijira)
Hijra/Hijira-religious observance in Muslim countries & communities around world on March 27 each year...

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O-Shogatsu - Japanese New Year
This is a three-day series of community and family events revolving around themes of good fortune and "firsts."...

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Christmas Day
Along with Easter, it is considered a high holy day and a time of great celebration for Christians...

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Easter - The resurrection of Jesus Christ
Christians pray and thank Christ, the saviour of whole humanity on the occasion...

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Diwali/Deepawali-Festival of Lights
Deepawali or festival of lights is an important and popular festival celebrated throughout the country in one form or the other...

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Dhanteras
Dhanteras marks Start of Diwali celebrations...

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Gurupurav: Guru Nanak's Birthday
Saints like Guru Nanak make their presence in this weary world in order to show the right path to the suffering humanity
Amrik Singh

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Pitra Paksha - Shraddha
The dark half of Ashvina (September-October) is observed as Pitra Paksha throughout the Hindu world, and sacrifices called Shraddha...

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Navratri / Durga Puja Festival
Style of observing Navratri and Durga Puja in different parts of the country may be different...

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Dussehra/Vijay Dashmi/Mohani Naka Dasara Festival
Dussehra or Vijay Dashmi, Mohani Naka, Dasara or Navaratri is a very popular Hindu Festival, celebrated with éclat throughout the country...

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ID-UL-ZUHA
Grandest Muslim Festival, also known as Bakrid...

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Ganesh Chaturthi
Birthday of Lord Ganesha and known as the day most sacred to Lord Ganesha...

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Canada Day
[Canada's National Day] Canada, the world's second-largest country (after Russia), is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere and comprises all the North American continent north of the United States...

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Bataan Day
Bataan Day commemorates those who lost their lives defending the peninsula of Bataan...

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Anzac Day
A.N.Z.A.C. is an acronym for the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps...
Manpreet

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Carnevale di Venezia
The Carnival of Venice is a public masquerade party associated with the Catholic calendar...

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Mother's Day
A question has been raised as to the correct form of the name of this holiday. Mother's Day, with the singular possessive of mother, is the accepted form...

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Sharad Purnima
This is observed on the night of full moon of Ashvina...

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Shab-e-Qadr
The most blessed of all the nights of the year according to Islam...

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Ridvan
Ridvan is considered the holiest Baha'i festival...

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Raksha Bandhan
The festival of Raksha Bandhan is observed on the full moon day of Shravana...

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Hannukah
[A Jewish Festival] A Jewish festival that occurs in December (the Hebrew month Kislev), also spelled Chanukah...

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Muharram
On the final day Tajias are taken out in grand processions, accompanied by brass bands and bagpipes playing sad tunes and beating of big drums that add to the solemnity of the occasion...

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Eid el-Adha
Eid el-Adha is an officially observed religious holiday that precedes the Hajj...

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May Day
A celebration of spring.

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Martin Luther King Day
[An U.S. Federal Holiday] Martin Luther King Day pays tribute to the best-known leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s...

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Janmashtami
On the eighth day of the black half of Bhadra (August - September) was born Shri Krishna, the eighth Avtar or incarnation of Vishnu...

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Hanuman Jayanti
The monkey-God Hanuman is worshipped everywhere in India either alone or together with Lord Rama. Hanuman temples dot the entire length and breath of the country. Every temple dedicated to Rama invariably has an idol of Hanuman...

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Father's Day
[A Western Culture Festival] It is a popular cultural observance celebrating fatherhood....

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Eastern Orthodox Epiphany
Epiphany is a blessing of baptism and a second Christmas...

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Passover
Celebrating the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

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Ramzan (Id-Ul-Fitr) Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan
Ramazan is the holy month of Islamic calender. Muslim around the world observe fast for the whole month. Eid ul-Fitr is a joyous occasion with important religious significance...

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