Festivals and entertainment in Jaipur

Elephant Festival

Elephant Festival is the most known festival in Jaipur. It is celebrated  every year in month of February or March (according to a lunar calendar date), the Elephant Festival is celebrated on the eve of the India-wide Festival of Colours, Holi. Elephant Tug of War and Elephant Polo are just a couple of the activities that take place during this festival. The community of Jaipur brings together over six and a half million people with a very diverse array of backgrounds. When the festivals burst forth into the streets Jaipur, everything comes to a halt and the city takes on an entirely new character to match each celebration.

Kite Festival

A festival that energises the whole city of Jaipur is the Kite Festival, which is held on January 14 every year. It has become a full government holiday, so the entire population of Jaipur and surrounding suburbs is free to pour into the streets and let their kites fly. The Kite Festival brings the contrast of bright, bold colours to this city that’s has become so well known as being monochrome pink. Truly, this is massive display of liveliness that everyone should experience at least once in their lives.

Kite Festival Jaipur

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is another citywide festival that take place in January. Although this is a relatively new annual event, but it has already gained a lot of reputation as the single largest free literary festival in the world. Here you will find a wide sampling of South Asia’s most prominent literary leaders.

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival

Teej Festival

During the monsoon in the months of late July and early August, this joyful festival brightens up Jaipur’s streets with its parades of colour and sound. Teej Festival is celebrated throughout Rajasthan, but it’s most prominent in Jaipur. The festival is celebrated on the occasion of God Shiva and Parvati being reunited after 100 years of separation, the celebration commemorates marriage, especially married women. Women get dressed in their finest clothes to worship the goddess, animals are adorned with coloured paint and jewels, music fills the air and dancers take to the streets. The entire city of Jaipur gives itself over to two days of ecstatic festival bliss and happiness.

Gangaur Fair

The goddess of abundance, Gauri, is celebrated in the springtime throughout the state of Rajasthan for Gangaur Fair. Married woman pray for the well-being and long lives of their husbands and young girls pray for an esteemed future spouse. People gather on the streets to witness a particularly pious procession that includes songs and manifestations of the gods Shiva and Parvati.

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