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.
October 2027
about 9 Oct 2027Sindoor KhelaOn Bijoya Dashami, married Bengali women in white sarees with red borders smear sindoor on the goddess and on each other.
about 14 Oct 2027Kojagari 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 29 Oct 2027Kali Puja (Dipannita)Bengal worships Kali on the new moon night of Diwali, with lamps, hibiscus flowers and a festive new saree.
about 14 Oct 2027Kojagari 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 29 Oct 2027Kali Puja (Dipannita)Bengal worships Kali on the new moon night of Diwali, with lamps, hibiscus flowers and a festive new saree.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