in our country india the festivals have great importance.this is all due to the culture of meeting and celebrating with friends,neighbours,relatives,and your colleauges. since my birth i have seen how people prepare for them. this you will find in indian sub continent only. all religions followers have different way of celebrating them. you can see that how people enjoy holi,dipawali,dusshera,janamashtmi,and the anniversaries of many saints. here only people take out celebrating processesions with many jhakis,horses,elephants,chariots,and now also cars are along with them. all rich and poor accompany them. other countries lack such enjoyment. cites localities and villages are decorated.people collect lot of personal funds for such occasions. you can see these celebrations in even films,and serials. how people wear new clothes,decorate their houses,ladies prepare special dishes,always something new and different on every occassion. sweets namkeens,special food are prepared on all occasions. something special and of diiferent taste and variety on each festival. people spend,share distribute,eat with all they call or visit. indians are not limited to themselves they share with all. though in early days people use to spend less but now the standards have gone very high fast food,chocolates,redy made indian sweets have also added to menu.
if anybody is in india they can enquire from their hotel,resort,tourusm department,or their agent some festival is always in every month. they can go to any place people will welcome them and you can see how celebrations are done. the effect of culture of this region is that all religions either muslims,sikhs,jains,christians,or others celebrate in a different way it will not resmble with other countries of world something special is added to it.and the celeberations method is different. lot of speciality is there. visit india to see the difference of dipawali,holi,eid.christmas.you will find something special in every city.new to visitors.famous celebrations are made in goverdhan,mathura,vridavan.benaras,allahabad,kolkata,mumbai,what a enjoyment to see same festival different attractive celebrations all over india very hard to catalogue, differnt and special celebrations in very small town like varsaNA FAMOUS FOR SPECIL HOLI...... NAJEEB KHAN ,AGRA,INDIA