What's on in India.

We check each event against its official source before publishing and re-check it on a rolling basis; the latest check date is printed on the event page.

The organiser has not published dates for the next edition yet. The window is built from the previous edition or from tradition, and it is labelled everywhere it appears. It is a planning guide, not a confirmed date: check the official source before booking travel around it.

We do not sell tickets ourselves. Indian concerts, theatre and sport are sold through BookMyShow, District by Zomato and Paytm Insider, and the big institutions, the NCPA, NMACC and Prithvi among them, sell direct as well. Where an event or attraction can be booked through one of our partners, its page carries a button to the seller. Where a booking link earns us commission, the button says so, and the price you pay is set by the seller and is the same whether or not you use our link. That commission is what keeps this site going: it helps cover the work of checking every date and keeping the calendar up to date, at no extra cost to you.

October to February, when the festival stack (Dussehra, Diwali, Christmas) runs into the concert season: the stadium tours route through the metros in November, December and January, the Jaipur Literature Festival and Lollapalooza India land in January, and the weather is the kindest of the year in most of the country.

Indian events are announced in short cycles: most promoters publish dates six to twelve weeks ahead, and the IPL fixtures and the second half of the football season do not exist in public until early 2027. We list an event when an official source has published it, or carry it as a tentative date with its basis stated, so the second half of 2027 fills in as the announcements land.

The letter is one email at the start of each month: what is on next month, which expected dates have just been confirmed, and the festivals worth building a trip around while hotels are still bookable.