Events for 2025-26

Durga Puja

The Hindu festival Durga Puja 2025 will be celebrated with great enthusiasm by people in India and Indian communities worldwide. The five-day festival of Goddess Durga represents the triumph of good over evil and honors feminine power and strength and compassion. The festival unites spiritual rituals with artistic expression and cultural unity to create a truly magnificent celebration.
The divine and unforgettable celebration of Durga Puja will take place from 21st September 2025 to 2nd October 2025.

Date

21 Sep 2025

28 Sep 2025

29 Sep 2025

30 Sep 2025

01 Oct 2025

02 Oct 2025

Occasion

Mahalaya

Maha Sashthi

Maha Saptami

Maha Ashtami

Maha Navami

Dashami

Day

Sunday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Lakshmi Puja on 6 October 2025

Lakshmi Puja is a Hindu festival dedicated to the worship of Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, prosperity, and good fortune. This festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion across India. Goddess Lakshmi is revered as the symbol of wealth, prosperity, and abundance. She is considered the consort of Lord Vishnu and is believed to bring blessings and happiness to those who worship her with sincerity.

Kali Puja on Monday, October 20, 2025

Kali Puja is a Hindu festival dedicated to the Goddess Kali. Kali Puja is celebrated on new moon day during Diwali festivity. While most people in India worship Goddess lakshmi on Amavasya Tithi during Diwali, folks in West Bengal, Orissa and Assam worship Goddess Kali on new moon day, the most important day of Diwali.

In most of the years, Diwali Puja and Kali Puja falls on the same day but in some years Kali Puja might fall one day before Diwali Puja. For Kali Puja, the day when Amavasya prevails during midnight is considered while for Lakshmi Puja the day when Amavasya prevails during Pradosh is considered.

Saraswati Puja on 23 January 2026

Vasant Panchami day is dedicated to Saraswati, the Goddess of knowledge, music, arts, science and technology. Goddess Saraswati is worshipped on Vasant Panchami day. Vasant Panchami is also known as Shri Panchami and Saraswati Panchami.

People worship Goddess Saraswati to get enlighten with knowledge and to get rid of lethargy, sluggishness and ignorance. This ritual of initiating education to children is known as Akshar-Abhyasam or Vidya-Arambham/Praasana which is one of the famous rituals of Vasant Panchami. Schools and colleges arrange pujas in the morning to seek blessing of the Goddess.