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Today is Durga Puja begins.
Saptami to Dashami. The pandals open and the city stops.
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Every festival shows up in the calendar you already use. If a date changes, it updates on its own. Nothing to sign up for.
Learn the basics
All guidesShort guides on what each puja is for, and how to do it the first time.
- Reading a panchangFive limbs, one sunrise-to-sunrise day, and why two calendars can disagree by a day.
- Diwali Lakshmi puja at homeThe evening's order of service, the muhurta that matters, and what to prepare the day before.
- How to set up a home altarDirection, height, and the six things that actually matter — a setup you can keep up daily.
Festival dates for every part of India, what happens on each day, and what you need. We check the dates by hand. When a festival is kept differently in different states, we say so instead of picking one.