Monsoon Festivals in India


Teej Where: North India, especially Rajasthan and Bihar When: Late July The Haritalika Teej is a fasting festival for Hindu married women. Women get together, dress up and then swing, umm... on jhoolas. It's the quintessential monsoon festival

Adiperukku Where: Tamil Nadu When: Mid July-August Celebrated by women, the festival pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. It's always celebrated near river basins, water tanks, lakes and wells

Dree Where: Arunachal Pradesh When: July 5 Celebrated every year at Nenchaleya by the Apatani tribes to propitiate the Dree god to protect the crops from pests and diseases

Minjar Where: Himachal Pradesh When: July-August Celebrated in Chamba, this seven-daylong affair is a thanksgiving ceremony to the god of rain and a prayer for good harvest

Behdienkhlam Where: Meghalaya When: July Pnar tribe celebrates this monsoon festival where young men make a symbolic gesture of driving away the evil spirit The North East has more monsoon festivals like Tuluni (Nagaland), Kharchi Puja (Tripura) & Mim Kut (Mizoram)

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