🎉 New Year’s Day

📅 Date: 1 January 2026
📆 Day: Thursday
📝 About:
New Year’s Day marks the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. People celebrate with parties, prayers, resolutions, and social gatherings across India and the world.

🔥 Lohri

📅 Date: 13 January 2026
📆 Day: Tuesday
📝 About:
Lohri is a popular harvest festival of Punjab, Haryana, and North India. It celebrates the end of winter with bonfires, folk songs, dance, and offerings like peanuts and revri.

🌾 Makar Sankranti

📅 Date: 14 January 2026
📆 Day: Wednesday
📝 About:
Makar Sankranti marks the Sun’s transition into Capricorn (Makar). It signifies longer days and the harvest season. Celebrations include kite flying, holy baths, and charity.

🪔 Pongal (Thai Pongal)

📅 Date: 14 January 2026
📆 Day: Wednesday
📝 About:
Pongal is a four-day harvest festival celebrated mainly in Tamil Nadu. It thanks the Sun God for agricultural abundance and involves cooking the traditional dish “Pongal.”

🌼 Vasant Panchami

📅 Date: 23 January 2026
📆 Day: Friday
📝 About:
Vasant Panchami marks the arrival of spring and is dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, the deity of knowledge, wisdom, and arts. Yellow attire and prayers are common.

☀️ Ratha Saptami

📅 Date: 25 January 2026
📆 Day: Sunday
📝 About:
Ratha Saptami is dedicated to Sun God Surya and symbolizes the beginning of the harvesting season. Devotees take holy baths and perform sun worship.

🇮🇳 Republic Day

📅 Date: 26 January 2026
📆 Day: Monday
📝 About:
Republic Day commemorates the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1950. It is celebrated with a grand parade in New Delhi and patriotic events nationwide.