Today’s festivals

Worship of Goddess Kali (Shyama) on the darkest night of Ashwina/Kartika Amavasya — in Bengal this is the paramount festival, observed with large public pandals and all-night worship

• Night-long Kali puja
• Pandal celebrations
• Red hibiscus and lamp offerings
• Tantra puja

New Moon — ancestral prayers and Pitru Tarpan

• Pitru Tarpan
• Ancestor remembrance
• Shradh

Worship of Govardhan Hill — Krishna lifted it to protect Braj from Indra's wrath

• Annakut (mountain of food offered)
• Cow worship

King Bali's return from netherworld; New Year in some regions