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Hindu Festivals & Calendar in 2011


Hindu Festivals 2011 based on Hindu traditional calendar - India Standard Time. This is a list of important festival dates in Hinduism in 2011 based on various regional Hindu calendars. The same festival might be celebrated a day earlier or later in different parts of India. The calendar is incomplete as there is confusion regarding few Hindu festivals in 2011.
January 2011
Makar Sankranti – 14th January, 2011 - (15th January in western and eastern parts of India)
Pongal – 15th January, 2011
Thai Pusam – January 20, 2011
February 2011
Vasant Panchami – Saraswati Puja – February 8, 2011
March 2011
Shivratri – 3rd March, 2011
Holi – March 20th, 2011
April 2011
Ugadi (New Year in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) – April 4th, 2011
Gudi Padva – April 4th, 2011
Chaitra Navratri Begins - April 4th, 2011
Ram Navami – 12th April, 2011
Chithirai 1 (Tamil New Year) – 14th April, 2011
Hanuman Jayanti – 18th April, 2011
Vishu (Kerala) – 14th April, 2011
New Year in Bengal and Assam – 15th April, 2011
May 2011
Akshaya Tritiya – 6th May, 2011
Narasimha Jayanti – 16th May, 2011
June 2011
Puri Rath Yatra – 3 July, 2011
July 2011
Vyas Purnima, Guru Purnima – 15th July, 2011
August 2011
Raksha Bandan – 13th August, 2011
Sri Krishna Janmashtami – 22nd August, 2011
September 2011
Ganesh Chaturthi - 1st September, 2011
Onam - September 9, 2011
Pitru Paksha Shradh - 13th September, 2011 to 27th September
Navratri Begins – 28th September, 2011
October 2011
Durga Ashtami – 4th October, 2011
Maha Navami – 5th October, 2011
Vijaya Dashami – Dussehra – 6th October, 2011
Karva Chouth – October 13, 2011
Deepavali – Diwali – 26th October, 2011
Gujarati New Year - 27th October, 2011
November 2011
Karti Purnima - November 10
Sabarimala Mandala Kalam begins – 16th November, 2011
December 2011
Sri Dattatreya Jayanti - December 10
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Tirupati Laddu Facts


Laddu, or Ladoo, is one of the most important offering and prasadam given to devotees at the Tirumala Tirupati LordVenkateswara Temple. Tirupati Laddu is a spherical-shaped sweet made of flour and sugar. In fact, Tirupati and the huge laddus are synonymous. It is a customary duty of a devotee returning from Tirupati Balaji Temple to distribute ‘laddu’ as prasadam to his neighbors, friends and relatives.
Some quick facts about Tirupati Laddu
  • Around 150,000 laddus are made daily.
  • One laddu is given free to each devotee; the number of daily devotees that visit the temple is around 50,000.
  • A devotee can buy extra two laddus – a small laddu costs 25 rupees and big laddu costs 100 rupees.
  • The revenue from the sale of laddu annually is more than 11 million rupees.
  • Each laddu weighs around 100gms and is huge when compared with the normal laddu found in shops.
  • There is a super huge Tirupati Laddu known as Kalyana Laddu and it weighs around 500gms – ½ a kilogram.
  • Single largest laddu made is said to have weighed 32 kg.
  • The tradition of Tirupati Laddu is nearly 300 years old.
  • It is prepared by special hereditary priests known as archakas in special temple kitchen known as ‘potu’.
  • Ingredients used in Tirupati Laddu are Besan flour (kadalai mavu), Sugar, Cashew nuts, Cardamom, Ghee, Oil, Sugar candy, Raisins and Almonds.
On a day around 5000 kg of Besan flour is used.
Sugar around 10000 kg.
Cashew nuts around 600 kg.
Cardamom 150 kg
Ghee 300 liters
Sugar candy 400 kg
Raisins 540 kg
  • The ingredients are bought at the auction at the Commodities and Spices Exchange in Kochi.
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTDs) the administrating body of the temple is planning to patent the Tirupati Laddu to stop counterfeits.
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