Jhapan-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

Jhapan is the most famous local festival of Vishnupur in West Bengal. This festival is held in the month of August in the honour of the serpent-deity Manasa, the daughter of Lord Shiva. The snake charmers display tricks and amazing feats with the live, venomos snakes on decorated bullock carts. Cobras, pythons, vipers, rat snakes, kraits and flying snakes are brought in baskets made of cane or grass. The origin of this festival is believed to belongs to the 17th century when the King Bir Hambir Malla was greeted with great rejoicing on his victorious return after the battle.
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Mahesh Yatra-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

Mahesh Yatra is a car festival, which is celebrated at Serampore, about 25 kms. from Kolkata. This car festival is celebrated in the month of July. On this day, the people gather here in large scale to pull the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra on the journey from the temple and back.

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Rabindra Jayanti-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

Rabindra Jayanti is celebration as the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore on 7 May. This festival is the most widely observed cultural festival in West Bengal. All cultural associations and groups celebrate this day with song, dance and drama composed by Tagore which run for days together. Various meeting and seminars are held for discussion on the different aspects of the life of Tagore.

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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

The birthday of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is celebrated on 23 January in West Bengal. This festival is a national festival of West Bengal. Processions with large numbers of young men and girls in military formation parade in every town and village. The main procession is held in Kolkata that attains a length of more than three kilometers and groups of boys and girls play martial band music.
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Ganga Sagar Mela-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

Ganga Sagar Mela, also known as Ganga Dussehra Mela is held in the month of January, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti at Sagardwip, about 105 km. south of Kolkata. Sagardwip is the island situated at the mouth of Ganga where the Hugli river joins the sea. This is the largest fair of the West Bengal and celebrated for three days. On this day, a large number of Hindu pilgrims collect here and take bath in the holy waters and visit the Kapil Muni Temple. Gangasagar pilgrimage and fair is the second largest congregation of mankind after the holy Kumbha Mela.
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Sharad Purnima-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

The Sharad Purnima or Kojaagari Purnima or Kumar Purnima is a harvest festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin (September–October). It marks the end of monsoon. There is a traditional celebration of the moon and is also called the 'Kaumudi celebration', Kaumudi meaning moonlight.

At night, goddess Lakshmi is worshiped and night vigil is observed. According to a folk-tale, once a king fell on evil days, and was in great financial straits, but then his queen observed this fast and night vigil, and worshiped the goddess of wealth, Laxmi. Consequently, they were blessed by the goddess and they regained their prosperity.


It is also believed that on this day as moon and the earth are very close to each other, the moon rays have certain healing properties of nourishing the body and the soul.
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Vasant Panchami-West Bengal-www.vishvabhraman.com

Vasant Panchami (Nepali: वसन्त पञ्चमी Hindi: वसन्त पञ्चमी), sometimes referred to as Saraswati Puja (Bengali language:সরস০বতী পূজা), Shree Panchami, or the Basant Festival of Kites is a Sikh and Hindu festival held on the fifth day of Magha (in early February) marking the start of spring and the Holi season. On this day Hindus worship Saraswati Devi, the goddess of knowledge, music, art and culture.


For Sikhs, in the Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, on the day of Vasant Panchmi, musicians start the music by singing Basant Raga. This practice continues up until the first day of Vaisakh when Basant Rag is no longer used. A fair normally held at the famous Sikh shrine of Guru-ka-Lahore in Bilaspur district to mark the occasion of the marriage of Guru Gobind Singh Ji on Vasant Panchami.
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