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Festivals for Kids

Features for kids on festivals, customs and traditions

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Deepavali – or Diwali – as is commonly uttered – literally means rows of lamps. These lamps light up houses all over the country, …

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Why have a particular day to tell your mother that you love her and respect her, some of us might ask. Why indeed? We could do …

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The colourful kite-flying festival of Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan, which falls on January 14 each year, marks the end of a long …

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Holi or the festival of colours, is celebrated with great enthusiasm in India, and by the Indian communities settled abroad. It is …

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Janamashtmi, or the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna — the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu — is celebrated with traditional gaiety …

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