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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October 2026
about 20 Oct 2026Sindoor KhelaOn Bijoya Dashami, married Bengali women in white sarees with red borders smear sindoor on the goddess and on each other.
about 25 Oct 2026Kojagari Lakshmi PujaOn the full moon night after Durga Puja, Bengali homes paint rice-paste footprints for Lakshmi and the women of the house wear a clean or new saree.
about 25 Oct 2026Kojagari Lakshmi PujaOn the full moon night after Durga Puja, Bengali homes paint rice-paste footprints for Lakshmi and the women of the house wear a clean or new saree.November 2026
about 8 Nov 2026Kali Puja (Dipannita)Bengal worships Kali on the new moon night of Diwali, with lamps, hibiscus flowers and a festive new saree.
about 13 to 16 Nov 2026Chhath PujaWomen of Bihar and Jharkhand keep the Chhath fast at the river in clean new sarees, with sindoor applied long along the parting.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Vasant Panchami: Nitin Das, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eid Ul Fitr India: Mohammed Tawsif Salam, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Christmas Kerala Goa: LLs, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kali Puja Bengal: Jonoikobangali, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kojagari Lakshmi Puja: ShotgunMavericks, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rath Yatra Puri: G.-U. Tolkiehn, CC BY 2.5, source
- Chhath Puja Bihar: Steffen Gauger, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vesak Sri Lanka: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Thaipusam Malaysia: hams Nocete, CC BY-SA 2.0, source