Christmas is a very small religious festival in India: most people belong to other religions.

One of the largest Christian Communities, in India, is in Bombay. A lot of the Christians in Bombay are Roman Catholics and midnight mass is very important to them.
 
The whole family walks to mass. After mass, all the family joins in a large feast of different foods, - mainly curries. Following the party, everyone, except for the children, - Father Christmas delivers their presents by horse and cart on Christmas morning - exchange presents.

Instead of having traditional Christmas trees,  banana or mango trees are decorated in their place, with Christian symbols.

In Southern India, Christians often put small oil burning clay lamps on the flat roofs of their homes to show their neighbours that Jesus is the light of the world.

In north-west India, the  Christians of the Bhil people, go out at night for a week   to sing their own carols   and tell the Christmas story.
 
Even though most people in India are not Christians, Christmas is a national holiday and all  people, irrespective of their faiths, enjoy the  celebrations along with their Christian  friends.