Thursday, 11 February
Saraswati Puja 2027
Saraswati Puja falls on Thursday 11 February 2027. Below: the Panchami time in Kolkata, the customs of the day, and the songs from morning anjali to the evening Kolkata calls its own Valentine's Day.
Thursday, 11 February
Thursday, 11 February
Saraswati Puja (Vasant Panchami, Magha Shukla Panchami) is on Thursday 11 February 2027. By drikpanchang's Kolkata reckoning the Panchami tithi runs from 3.04 am on the 11th to 3.18 am on the 12th.
The day's customs
Wikipedia's Vasant Panchami page says most schools in West Bengal hold the puja for their students, and that it is the day of hate-khori, a child's first letters. Bengali Wikipedia records the rest: pens, inkpots, books and instruments are worshipped with the goddess, writing is avoided, and students do not eat kul, the sour little jujube, until the puja is done. Yellow is the day's colour. And in Kolkata, as Wikipedia puts it, Saraswati Puja is popularly called the Bengali Valentine's Day: the day of couples out together in kurtas and saris.
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Questions people ask
When is Saraswati Puja in 2027?
Thursday 11 February 2027.
What time is Panchami in Kolkata?
By drikpanchang's Kolkata reckoning, from 3.04 am on Thursday 11 February to 3.18 am on Friday 12 February 2027.
Why is Saraswati Puja called the Bengali Valentine's Day?
Wikipedia's Vasant Panchami page says that is what the day is popularly called in Kolkata, and that it has come to be the day couples spend together in traditional kurtas and saris.