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  • Recipe Important festivals in December 2009
    Important festivals in December 2009
    1st December 2009 - Karthikai Deepam Karthikai Deepam is an important festival in the Tamil calendar. From the 1st day of the Karthikai (Vrichikam) month small terracotta lamps are lit in the front of the house and on Karthikai day many lamps[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in May 2009
    Important festivals in May 2009
    Someone rightly pointed out there aren't any important festivals that we celebrate in the month of May. That is if you do not count Chithra Pournami as a festival celebrated at home. Chithra Pournami is the full moon day in the month of Chithirai[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in June 2009
    Important festivals in June 2009
    There are no important festivals that are celebrated at home in June. However, the full moon day in the month of Vaikasi (May-June) is celebrated as Vaikasi Vishakham in all the Subramania temples in the south. As we have seen, all full moon days[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in July 2009
    Important festivals in July 2009
    The month being Aani and Aadi , the monsoon months in India in general and in Southern India in particular, there are not many important festivals in July. The festival season begins with the advent of Shravana in the month of August. However[...]
  • Recipe Important Festivals in April 2009
    Important Festivals in April 2009
    3rd April 2009 - Sreerama Navami Sreeramanavami is celebrated as Lord Rama?s birthday. Special poojas are conducted in temples and also at various venues. At home we celebrate Sreeramanavami by preparing vella avil (sweet poha), vadai and[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in March 2009
    Important festivals in March 2009
    10th March 2009 - Maasi Pournami ( all Maasi Pournami related posts ) The full moon day in each Tamil month falls on a different star or nakshatra and that day is generally known by the name of the star. In the month of Thai[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in August 2009
    Important festivals in August 2009
    It has been some time since I posted. During this time, I went on a very satisfying pilgrimage to Sabarimala and have been busy since my return. Before I realised it, we were on the threshold of August, which is a month full of festivals after a[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in October 2009
    Important festivals in October 2009
    Thanks everybody for your kind messages during my long sabbatical. We are all doing very fine, thanks to the Blessings of Bhagavathy and the best wishes of all of you. As I had mentioned earlier we had got into some minor renovation of our home,[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in January 2009
    Important festivals in January 2009
    Readers of my blog have been asking me to post about the important events in advance so that they can observe the festivals according to our tradition. I have wanted to do it for a long time but every time I missed it. I am making an effort to post[...]
  • Recipe Important festivals in November 2009
    Important festivals in November 2009
    This year, the month of November does not have any important festival that we observe. Usually, we have either Deepavali or Karthikai in the month of November. This year, however, Deepavali was celebrated in October and Karthikai falls in December.[...]