Does India have Lantern Festival?
Not observed here
India has no Lantern Festival, but it has festivals of light of its own, and more than one: Diwali at the end of autumn, Kartik Purnima on the full-moon night, and Karthigai Deepam in the south in November or December. India's holiday tables are, by construction, lists of religious festivals settled between the states and the centre, and what gets in is the local calendar, not another country's lunar one. So the point of this cell is not that a festival of lights is missing, but that here the festivals of light queue up by a different calendar.
What is this topic?
The same lunar date is three different scenes in Taiwan alone — eating tangyuan and walking through a lantern display, releasing sky lanterns in Pingxi, or standing inside a wall of exploding fireworks in Yanshui — while in mainland China it is a working day, not one of the days off for all citizens. This page compares ritual intensity and civic status under one calendar date.
Sources and dates
Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.