I recently received my company’s holiday calendar for 2006 — the days the office won’t be open and work won’t be done here in the US.
So I asked the folks at Zinnov Research if they could supply me with the holiday calendar for 2006 that they’ll be using in their India offices.
If you work with India-based people, add these days to your calendar too, so you’ll know what schedule they’re working on in the coming new year. (Plus, you can ask them about their holiday plans — always a useful topic of conversation around the cyber cooler.)
Date | Day | Name of the Occasion | Nature of the Holiday |
Jan 11 | Wed | Id’ Ul-Zuha | Festival holiday |
Jan 14 | Sat | Makara Sakranthi | Festival holiday |
Jan 26 | Thur | Republic Day | National holiday |
Mar 14 | Tues | Holi | Festival holiday |
Apr 14 | Fri | Good Friday | Festival holiday |
May 1 | Mon | Labour Day | National holiday |
Aug 15 | Tues | Independence Day | National holiday |
Aug 16 | Wed | Janmashtami | Festival holiday |
Aug 27 | Sun | Ganesha Chaturthi/Vinayaka Chaturthi | Festival holiday |
Oct 2 | Mon | Gandhi Jayanthi/Dusserah | National holiday /Festival holiday |
Oct 21 | Sat | Deepavali/Diwali | National holiday |
Oct 25 | Wed | Id-Ul-Fitr | Festival holiday |
Nov 1 | Wed | Rajyotsava Day | State holiday |
Dec 25 | Mon | Christmas | Festival holiday |
Note: Rajyotsava Day, on Nov. 1, is specific to Bangalore and Hyderabad, when two states — Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — were formed.
And that leads to my next topic: We’ll be taking the next couple of weeks off here at Sourcingmag.com and that makes this my final blog comment for 2005.
Wishing you and yours a lovely, peaceful holiday season.
Addendum: My thanks to many people who corrected me on the date for Independence Day. I’ve updated the calendar above.
