India Festival  

India celebrates Makar Sankranti, a major harvest festival, marking the Sun's transition into Capricorn (Makar Rashi). It's a time of joy, renewal, and, of course, food. Every region prepares specific traditional foods, many of which carry deep cultural and health significance, especially in the winter season.
 

Dhruvi Patel, a computer information systems student from the United States, has been crowned Miss India Worldwide 2024. Patel expressed her aspirations of becoming a Bollywood actress and a UNICEF ambassador.

Important events like Hindu New Year 2081, Gudi Padwa, Chaitra Navratri, Eid, Ram Navami, and Hanuman Jayanti will be celebrated in the month of April. Let’s read about the specific dates for these events.

Kokborok Day is a festival celebrated in Tripura to commemorate the development of the Kokborok language, which is the official language of the state. Observed every January 19, this day celebrates the initial recognition of Kokborok and an official language in 1979. Let's find out more about this festival in this episode of Culture 'Shauk' with Sunita Iyer.

The land of diversity has insanely diverse customs that are one-of-a-kind. And here we find out those myriad ways in which Christmas is celebrated in India.