Shravan maasa & Rakhi 2011

Purnimant #Shravan #savan has started from Jul 16  2011(for north india) and will end on August 13th 2011 (north india). North india follows Purnimant month systems. Which means purnima is the last day of the lunar month for them. Where as Gujarat, Maharastra and south india follows amavasyant system in which the last day of the lunar month is amavasya. Amavasyant #shravan will start on Jul 31 (Gujarat, maharastra, southindia) and will end on end on 29 Aug 2011 (india) and 28th Aug  2011 in usa.

This year for tying Rakhi (August 13th for both India and USA) in India no good time till 12:04 PM where as in USA this restriction is not applicable as India has bhadra/visthi karana during the morning and USA doesn't have bhadra/visthi karana in morning.