Janmashtami di 🇮🇳 India

Janmashtami celebrates Lord Krishna's birth at midnight; devotees fast, perform ras leela (devotional plays), and break matki (clay pots) in the Dahi Handi tradition, with spectacular celebrations in Mathura and Vrindavan.

Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, observed with midnight prayers, fasting, devotional songs, dramatic re-enactments of Krishna's life, and dahi handi celebrations.