List of festival dates in 2010 – Happy new year to all

The first thing that I look at when a New Year comes is the calendar, especially at the dates of festivals. 2009 was a pretty good year in terms of holidays and placement of festivals compared to 2008 and 2007, where the festival day used to come bang in the middle of the week. In 2009, most of the festivals came near the week ends (Saturday and probably friday) or at the beginning of the week (Monday and probably Tuesday).

Let’s see what we have in store for 2010 calendar (I’m considering the South Indian festivals mainly)

Festivals and Holidays in 2010

January

Bhogi, Sankranti and Kanuma – 13, 14 and 15^th. Those days came on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Nice, Saturday is anyhow an off day.

Republic Day – 26^th came on Tuesday.

February

Maha Sivaratri – 12^th came on Friday, Nice one too.

Milad ul Nabi and Holi – 27 and 28, came on Saturday and Sunday. Two wasted holidays I suppose.

March

Ugadi (Telugu New Year) – 16^th, came on Tuesday, a leave on Monday would give me 3 holidays.

Srirama Navami – 24^th came on Wednesday. Nothing much to say.

April

Good Friday – 2^nd, you still want to know which day it came on?

Babu Jagjeevanram Jayanthi – 5^th, came on Monday, very nice.

BR Ambedkar Jayanthi – 14^th, came on Wednesday.

My Birthday – 30^th

May

May day – 1^st, came on Saturday, good.

June and July

You know pretty well, most people hate these months

August

Independence day – 15^th came on a Sunday

September (Lets the festivals begin)

Sri Krishnashtami – 1^st, came on Wednesday

Ramzan – 10^th, came on Friday

Vinayaka Chavithi – 11^th, came on Saturday

October

Gandhi Jayanthi – 2^nd, came on Saturday

Durgashtami – 15^th, came on Friday

Vijaya dasami (or Dussehra) – 17^th, came on Sunday

November

Diwali – 5^th, came on Friday

Bakrid – 17^th, came on Wednesday

December

Vaikunta Ekadasi – 17^th, came on Friday

Christmas – 25^th, Came on Saturday.

So decide for yourselves, whether 2010 is better than 2009 in terms of holidays.

I wish a very happy new year to each one of you.

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