Hindu Holiday Calendar

by Matthew on November 16, 2007

I missed Diwali this year so I hunted around the internet looking for an .ics or .vcs file that I could import into my Outlook calendar. I couldn’t find any and the default holiday tool that comes with Outlook 2007 doesn’t include any Hindu holidays either. So, I made one for 2008 – 2009 (based on the dates from here) if you want to download it. It includes most of the major celebrations:

Update (9/22/2008): I’ve updated the .ics file. You can grab it here. The new file includes the remaining holidays for this year through the end of 2011. So, 2008 – 2011.

hindu-holidays-calendar.zip

19 Comments Post a comment

Sajay #

Thank you, thank you!

November 22, 2007

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vijayakumar #

Thank u.

December 27, 2007

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AJ #

Great! Thanks!

January 10, 2008

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Ashish Yadav #

Thanks Friend,
Its really very fructile work.

May 13, 2008

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Neelesh #

Thanks dude.Good work! Do the next 50 years too! Dont think I’ll need more that that! :)

September 16, 2008

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Matthew #

Okay, Neelesh, I’ve updated the file through 2011. 50 years was a little much.

September 22, 2008

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jesh #

Hi, thanks for creating this it can prove very useful. But doesn’t Navaratri start on 30th Sept this year? Calendar says 19th Oct, please correct me if I’m wrong.

September 27, 2008

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Ankush #

Thanks a lot for the calendar

November 20, 2008

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sameersg #

thank you i was also searching for it,

January 16, 2009

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Su #

Thanks for this. it is perfect, just what i was looking for.

March 3, 2009

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Neelesh #

wow! I can’t believe you actually did it! I was just joking. I wasn’t even expecting you to actually do it! That’s why I did not even check back till now! wow! Thanks! Really appreciate all the hardwork you put it to make our life so much simpler! Thanks!

ps: I’m still counting on you for the 50 year calendar!!! :)

April 1, 2009

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Neelesh #

… and hey. I even imported this calendar to my dad’s nokia E51 sp that he’s reminded of all the important festivals… upto 2011!! thanks from him too! (I imported the calendar into outlook and then synced the outlook calendar with nokia PC suite.)

April 1, 2009

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TOKOOL #

tHANKS so much for this! Really appreciate it.

November 15, 2009

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Partha #

Awesome.. been searching for this one for so long… thanks a lot!!

June 23, 2011

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Sam #

Thanks bro – very useful. Is there a simple way to extend this for 2012?

September 22, 2011

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Matthew #

Sam, yep, absolutely. I’ve been meaning to do this. Thanks for the reminder.

September 22, 2011

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Hesmink #

Yours is the only usable one, please update to next year! Thanks!

December 13, 2011

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Rosh #

Hi, have you had a chance to update this file for 2012 yet?
Many thanks!

January 31, 2012

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