Ajab Utsav

Eight festivals where India does the unexpected

A scroll through the year. Each festival has a small animated scene and a sound you can play, all drawn and synthesised live in your browser. Dates move with the lunar calendar, so check locally before you travel.

The year at a glance

Tap a name to jump to it. The pink outline is this month.

Know a festival we missed?

Every festival here is one small object in the FESTIVALS list at the top of the script. Fill in the form to see yours appear on this page and copy the code, then add it to the list and open a pull request. Preview entries disappear when you reload.

Code to add

  






Real music plays in YouTube's own player, which stays visible as YouTube requires. Open source, from Getnomik Labs. Festival details are written to be broadly right, not authoritative: dates and customs vary by place and year, and local organisers always know best. Please correct us through a pull request.