Hindu Festivals 2009

Here is a list of Hindu festivals in 2009. I hope this will be useful especially of those of you living outside India ( and there are many as I can gather from the comments ) who might find it hard to track dates on the Hindu calendar. The list is by no means complete so is subject to being updated. Again, all these dates are according to the Udayavani diary of the year 2009. Hope you all have a great year 2009 !

Date	Festival
January 13, 14	Makara sankaramana, Pongal
February 23	Maha shivarathri
March 10	Holi
March 27	Gudi padva (Chandramana Ugadi)
April 3	Ram navami
April 9	Hanuman jayanthi
April 14	Soura ugadi
April 27	Akshaya thrathiya
May 8	Narasimha jayanthi
July 27	Nagar panchami
July 31	Varamahalakshmi Vratha
August 5	Raksha bandan
August 13	Krishna Jnmashtami
August 15	Independence day
August 22	Gowri thrathiya
August 23	Ganesh chathurthi
September 3	Ananth vritha(Nopi)
September 18	Mahalaya Amavasye
Sepeember 26	Durgashtami
September 27	Maha navami
September 28	Vijayadasmi
October 17	Deepavali
October 18	Lakshmi pooja
October 19	Bhagini grahe bhojanam
October 30	Uthana Dwadashi (Tulasi pooja)
November 23	Subramanya sashti
December 16	Ellu Amavasya