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Things to do in Mumbai this week.

Enjoy various visual arts, theatre, film, music, literature, dance, heritage, and children's events as part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival from the 3rd to the 11th of this month in Mumbai.

Visit the Web site of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2007 in Mumbai for a schedule of arts, heritage, culture, dance, music, film, literature, paintings, writing, and other events.

Find flights and compare airfares to Mumbai (BOM) on Mobissimo India. Search, find, sort, compare, and book hotel rooms and accommodation in Mumbai with Mobissimo's Hotel Search engine.

Mobissimo wishes you happiness, good fortune, success, peace, and progress on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Lohri, Utaran, and Bhogali Bihu today.

Different names but the same joy in celebrating these festivals all over India.

Makar Sankranti in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Karnataka.
Pongal in Tamil Nadu.
Lohri in North India.
Bhogali Bihu in Assam.
Uttarayan (Utaran - Kite flying festival) in Gujarat.

Mobissimo wishes you a happy Makar Sankranti, Lohri, and Pongal.

Image courtesy: 123Greetings.com.

Low cost airline Air Deccan (PDF, 24KB) plans to celebrate Makar Sankranti on 14th January by releasing three lakh (300,000) tickets for sale at Rs. 7/- (plus taxes) for travel across all sectors in February and March 2007.

Bookings for these air tickets would open at 08:00am IST on Sunday, 14th January 2007.

Find and book Air Deccan tickets from Mobissimo India.

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Mobissimo wishes you a happy Makar Sankranti. As they say in Marathi, tilgul ghya aani god god bola. Take these sesame seeds (mixed with jaggery) and speak sweet sweet words.

Related:
- Makar Sankranti festival
- Sweets for Makar Sankranti.

Mobissimo wishes you a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2007.

Hope year 2007 is filled with joy, hope, peace, happiness, love, opportunities, and adventures for all of you.

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow.
~ Emily Miller

Wish you a Happy New Year.

We will open a book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Happy New Year.

Image courtesy: WebShots India photos.

Mobissimo wishes its readers a happy and joyous Eid. Eid Mubarak.

Eid Mubarak!

Diwali means bright lights, colourful lamps, kaleidoscopic akashkandils (lanterns) lining balconies of most houses, rows of colourful diyas (earthen lamps) burning bright on balcony and window sills, the colours of rangoli (design patterns with finely ground white powder and bright colours) outside homes and Shubh Labh (auspicious profit) stickers on doors, lots of sweets; boxes of mixed mithai (assorted sweets), variety of farsaan (salted snacks), the ubiquitous gifts; online, offline, and SMS greetings; shopping spree from clothes, electronic items, cars, and more to gold and diamonds; Laxmi Pooja at home, in shops, and at work; Muhurat (auspicious time) trading for stockbrokers, and the ubiquitous firecrackers in their numerous forms—rockets swishing through the night skies, colourful phuljadis (sparklers), long and noisy looms that go rat-a-tat tad-thad-tad-thad, anars and zameen chakkars spreading joy with a basket of red, yellow, green, orange, and pink colours; and those all-in-one firecrackers that brighten the night sky with a bloom of rainbow colours.

Festivals are fun with family, relatives, and friends to celebrate with. The more the merrier.

What does Diwali mean to you? What are you doing this Diwali? Have you taken off for a 5-day vacation to Goa, Udaipur, or Pondicherry; or are you enjoying the dhamaal (hustle and bustle) of Diwali at home with family and friends? Share your experiences. Tell us about your Diwali.

Enjoy your vacation and search for your return flight on Mobissimo.

Mobissimo wishes its readers a Happy and Prosperous Diwali.

Lead us from the unreal to real, from fallacy to truth, and from darkness to light. Hope you all have a fabulous Diwali.

May this Diwali brighten your world with warmth, love, happiness, peace, progress, and prosperity. May the sparkle and shine of Diwali carry on for the rest of the year and may each day of the coming new year be as bright, shiny, colourful, glistening, and beautiful as Diwali.

Here's wishing you all a Diwali that's filled with sparkling colours, bright lights, delicious sweets, lots of fireworks, and the joyful company of family, friends, and relatives. Hope you all have a wonderful Diwali.

Image courtesy: 123Greetings and foxwillow on Flickr.