The wear calendar
99 festivals, weddings seasons and craft days of the year, with what is worn on each. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.
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5 May 2027Arrival Day, GuyanaOn 5 May Guyana remembers the first Indian indentured workers of 1838, with sarees, music and food.
14 May 2027Girmit Day, FijiOn 14 May Indo-Fijians remember the arrival of the Leonidas in 1879 with prayers, songs and Indian dress.
30 May 2027Indian Arrival Day, Trinidad and TobagoOn 30 May Trinidad remembers the first Indian indentured workers of 1845, with cultural events where women wear sarees and odhni.August 2027
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Republic Day: mannat sharma, CC BY 3.0 br, source
- Independence Day: Vidur Malhotra, CC BY 2.0, source
- Gandhi Jayanti Khadi: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, source
- Poila Boishakh West Bengal: Abidhasan00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ekushey February Bangladesh: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Victory Day Bangladesh: Jubair1985, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kartini Day Indonesia: The original uploader was Sumbuddi at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, source
- Indian Arrival Day Trinidad: SMU Central University Libraries, Public domain, source
- Aapravasi Day Mauritius: Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source