A directory of India’s 28 states, 8 union territories and the events that happen in them — listed district by district, and open to any organiser who writes in.https://visit.untitledbuild.com/en-inhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/durga-puja-kolkata/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/durga-puja-kolkata/For five days each autumn Kolkata becomes an open-air exhibition of temporary art, installed street by street. — Kolkata, West Bengal — September or October, on the Hindu lunar calendarhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/hampi-utsav/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/hampi-utsav/Music and dance staged among the ruins of Vijayanagara, on the boulder-strewn banks of the Tungabhadra. — Vijayanagara, Karnataka — Usually held in the cooler months; dates are announced by the state each yearhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/hornbill-festival/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/hornbill-festival/Nagaland's tribes gather at Kisama for ten days of dance, music, craft and food each December. — Kohima, Nagaland — Early December, usually the first ten dayshttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/jaipur-literature-festival/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/jaipur-literature-festival/A free-to-attend literary festival in Rajasthan's capital, running multiple stages across several days. — Jaipur, Rajasthan — Usually Januaryhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/konark-dance-festival/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/konark-dance-festival/Indian classical dance performed on an open-air stage beside Odisha's thirteenth-century Sun Temple. — Puri, Odisha — Usually early Decemberhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/onam-kerala/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/onam-kerala/Kerala's harvest festival — flower carpets, a vegetarian feast served on a banana leaf, and snake-boat races. — Thrissur, Kerala — August or September, on the Malayalam calendarhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/pushkar-camel-fair/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/pushkar-camel-fair/A livestock fair beside a Rajasthani pilgrimage lake that grew into one of India's largest annual gatherings. — Ajmer, Rajasthan — Around Kartik Purnima, usually in Novemberhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/rann-utsav/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/rann-utsav/A months-long tent city on the white salt desert of the Great Rann of Kutch, timed to the dry season. — Kutch, Gujarat — Roughly November to February, across the dry monthshttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/rongali-bihu/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/rongali-bihu/Assam's spring new-year festival — husori singing, dhol and pepa, and a week of community gatherings. — Kamrup Metropolitan, Assam — Mid-April, at the start of the Assamese new yearhttps://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/ziro-music-festival/https://visit.untitledbuild.com/events/ziro-music-festival/An outdoor independent-music festival staged in a Himalayan valley of paddy fields in Arunachal Pradesh. — Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh — Typically late September