Uttarakhand Festival

Vishuvat Sankranti, the Kumaoni solar new year and the first day of Baisakh. People take holy dips at river confluences,

The festival of greenery on Karka Sankranti, the first day of Shravan. Grains sown ten days earlier are cut and

Simha Sankranti, the first day of Bhado. Every family eats ghee with bedu roti and the first arbi (taro) leaves