Non-Resident Indian Day
Non-Resident Indian Day is held on January 9. India. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. 
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The aim to celebrate the day is to increase the engagement of the overseas Indian community with the Government of India and also focus on reconnecting them with their roots.
Pravasi Bhartiya Divas or Non-Resident Indian Day (starting in 2003) is observed on 9 January to mark the contribution of the Overseas Indian community in the development of India. On this day in 1915, Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest Pravasi, returned to India from South Africa. He played an important role in the freedom struggle of India and also changed the lives of Indians forever.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Birth of Guru Gobind Singh on January 5 (The occasion is celebrated by Sikhs and Sikh diasporas all over the world);
World Hindi Day on January 10 (Vishwa Hindi Diwas);
National Youth Day in India on January 12
Lohri on January 13 (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh);
Makar Sankranti in India on January 14
International Kite Festival in Gujarat, India on January 14
Army Day in India on January 15
Thai Pongal, Tamil harvest festival in India on January 15
Jallikattu in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on January 15 (is a traditional spectacle in which a bull, such as the Pulikulam or Kangayam breeds, is released into a crowd of people, and multiple human participants attempt to grab the large hump on the bull's back with both arms and hang on to it while the bull attempts to escape)
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