A Conversation for Diwali - the Festival Of Light
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Sep 4, 2002
The entry tells you everything except when it falls...? 
Is it a fixed date festival, or if not, how is the date calculated? When does it actually come to pass?
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Researcher 194846 Posted Sep 23, 2003
This year (2003) Diwali falls on 25th October. Diwali is a New Year festival in the Hindu Vikrama calendar, where it falls on the night of the new moon in the month of Kartika.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 23, 2003
Thanks! 
Is there a simple conversion formula to work it out in the Roman calendar?
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Anushodhak Posted Oct 10, 2003
It's calculated by Astrologers, based on positions of stars, bit complicated but we get calendars in the market.
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 4, 2002)
- 2: Researcher 194846 (Sep 23, 2003)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 23, 2003)
- 4: Anushodhak (Oct 10, 2003)
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