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Gujarati Channels Live in the USA & Canada — 90+ Gujarati TV Channels
Nine nights of garba from Vadodara and Ahmedabad, the business news your father actually watches, Gujarati natak, santvani and dayro, and the Diwali week that ends one year and starts the next — streamed to your television and held for seven days.
- 90+Live Gujarati channels
- 7 DaysCatch-up on live TV
- IncludedGujarati on demand
- No DishNo contract
Built for Gujarati homes abroad
One subscription for the whole household, with every other Indian language included.
- Nine nights of live Navratri garba
- News, business and market coverage
- Gujarati natak, serials and cinema
- Bhajan, santvani, dayro and Jain programming
- Gujarati films on demand
- Support in Gujarati, Hindi and English
No card details needed for the trial.
A community that left early and settled everywhere
Gujaratis have been leaving the western coast for trade for a very long time, and the pattern shows in where they are now. Families went from Kathiawar and Kutch to Zanzibar, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Kampala and Durban; from East Africa many moved on again to Britain, the United States and Canada; others came directly from Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot after the immigration rules changed in 1965.
In North America that produced some of the most concentrated Gujarati neighbourhoods anywhere outside India — Edison and the Oak Tree Road corridor in New Jersey, Queens and Long Island, Chicago's Devon Avenue, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, the Bay Area, and in Canada the Greater Toronto Area out through Mississauga, Brampton and Scarborough. Gujarati enterprise is visible in ways few other communities match: a very large share of American hotels and motels are owned by Gujarati families, and the diamond trade between Surat, Antwerp and New York runs on the same networks.
What that community wants from television is specific. Not a general Indian package, but Gujarati news read in Gujarati, the markets, nine full nights of garba, natak, santvani, and the Diwali week that ends one year and begins the next. Our Gujarati package carries more than 90 live channels with a seven-day catch-up window and a Gujarati on-demand library.
Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Gujarati script, a Devanagari variant without the connecting headline. Speaker counts from Indian census and language-survey data; UNESCO inscription December 2023.
Nine nights, and the only time zone problem that works in your favour
Navratri is not a festival Gujarat observes. It is the festival Gujarat organises its year around. Nine nights of garba danced in concentric circles around the garbo, raas with sticks, the aarti at midnight, and grounds in Vadodara and Ahmedabad holding tens of thousands of people until two in the morning.
Here is the part that surprises people. Garba in Gujarat starts around 9pm and runs past 2am IST. Subtract the gap and that falls in the North American late morning and afternoon — roughly 11:30am to 4:30pm Eastern, 8:30am to 1:30pm Pacific. For once the time difference is a gift: you can watch the real thing live from Vadodara during the day, and still be at your own local garba in Edison, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas or Toronto that same evening. Anything you miss sits on the seven-day catch-up.
Live from the big grounds
Multi-hour transmissions from the major Navratri venues each night, with the live orchestra, the singers and the crowd rather than a studio recreation.
Garba and raas competitions
Group competitions, traditional Kathiawari and Kutchi styles, and the modern high-tempo garba that fills the commercial grounds.
Dussehra and Sharad Purnima
The tenth day closes Navratri, and the full moon that follows brings Sharad Purnima programming, rooftop gatherings and the milk-and-poha tradition.
Practical note for Navratri week: this is the heaviest viewing week of the year on Gujarati channels, and often the week households have the most people in the house. One subscription streams to several screens at once, so the aarti can be on in the living room while the kids watch something else. Tell us how many screens you need when you start the trial.
Your new year is not in January, and it is not in April either
Most Indian communities begin the year in spring. Gujaratis do not. The Gujarati year ends with Diwali, on the last day of the month of Aso, and the new one begins the very next morning — Bestu Varas, the first day of Kartak. That is why a Gujarati household treats Diwali week as a single continuous stretch rather than one evening: Dhanteras, Kali Chaudas, Diwali, then New Year's Day, then Bhai Beej, then Labh Pancham on the fifth day, when shopkeepers open the new account books.
It matters for television because the channels build a week of programming around it, and because for families abroad the greetings, the muhurat timings and the Chopda Pujan all happen on Indian time, not yours. Catch-up is what makes the week workable when you are at the office.
The Gujarati calendar is also counted differently. Gujarat uses the Vikram Samvat era with Kartak as the first month, where much of the rest of India counting the same era starts from Chaitra. The table opposite follows the Gujarati order, so the festival your mother refers to by month lands where you would expect it.
| Month | What it brings |
|---|---|
| KartakOct–Nov | Bestu Varas, Bhai Beej, Labh Pancham, Dev Diwali |
| MagsharNov–Dec | Wedding season opens; Gita Jayanti |
| PoshDec–Jan | Uttarayan on 14 January — the kite festival |
| MahaJan–Feb | Vasant Panchami, Maha Shivratri |
| FaganFeb–Mar | Holi and Dhuleti |
| ChaitraMar–Apr | Chaitri Navratri, Ram Navami, Mahavir Jayanti |
| VaishakhApr–May | Akshaya Tritiya, peak wedding muhurats |
| JethMay–Jun | Vat Savitri; the wait for the monsoon |
| AshadhJun–Jul | Rath Yatra from Ahmedabad, Guru Purnima |
| ShravanJul–Aug | Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, fasting month |
| BhadarvoAug–Sep | Ganesh Chaturthi, Paryushan and Samvatsari |
| AsoSep–Oct | Navratri, Dussehra, Sharad Purnima, Diwali |
Months follow the lunar cycle, so Gregorian dates shift each year. Uttarayan is the exception — it is fixed to the solar transit and falls on 14 January.
What is actually on the Gujarati channels
Programming categories across the Gujarati channels in the package. We list what kinds of programming you get rather than naming individual channels, because line-ups change — the current list is shown to you during the free trial.
News, and the business news
State and national bulletins in Gujarati, district reporting, assembly coverage, debate programmes, and a genuinely unusual depth of business and market coverage — share markets, commodities, textiles, chemicals and the diamond trade. For a lot of Gujarati households this is the channel that is on by default.
Natak
Gujarati theatre is the most commercially successful regional stage tradition in India, run largely out of Mumbai, with full productions recorded and broadcast. Comedy, social drama and family farce, and the one category Gujarati viewers abroad miss most and can almost never find anywhere else.
Serials and daily drama
Gujarati-language family serials in daily strips, plus the dubbed and original drama that fills the afternoon and prime-time blocks.
Cinema
Gujarati film channels running both the older social and devotional cinema and the urban new-wave films of the last decade, with titles also sitting in the on-demand library to watch at your own pace.
Bhajan, santvani and kirtan
Devotional broadcasting across the Vaishnav, Swaminarayan and wider sampraday traditions — bhajan, dhun, aarti, temple darshan and live santvani gatherings, with early-morning and evening slots that suit the people in the house who want them.
Dayro and loksahitya
The Saurashtra storytelling tradition: a single performer with a harmonium and a tabla holding an audience for hours on folk tales, duha and chhand. Broadcast at length and rarely subtitled, which makes it one of the better reasons to have the real channel rather than clips.
Jain programming
Gujarat has one of the largest Jain populations in India and the diaspora reflects it. Pravachan, stavan, derasar darshan, and the full Paryushan cycle with Samvatsari and the Michhami Dukkadam observances in Bhadarvo.
Folk music and garba year-round
Not only in Aso. Garba, raas, bhavai folk theatre, Kutchi and Kathiawari folk music and new Gujarati pop run across the music channels all year.
Vegetarian cookery
Gujarati food is its own cuisine and gets its own programming — undhiyu in winter, dhokla, khaman, thepla, handvo, fafda and jalebi on Dussehra morning, and the farsan that no recipe website explains properly.
Children's channels
Animation and children's programming in Gujarati and Hindi, which for most households abroad is the only steady source of the language that is not a relative talking to them.
Cricket and kabaddi
Sport in the package with Gujarati and Hindi commentary where it is available, including the domestic and franchise seasons.
Every other Indian language
The subscription is not language-locked. Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bangla, Kannada and English are all included, which matters in a mixed household or a shared one. See all channels.
When Gujarati programmes reach you, and why catch-up settles it
India runs on a single time zone, IST, and does not observe daylight saving. The gap to North America therefore changes twice a year on your side, not theirs. The table shows where the main Gujarati viewing blocks land.
| Programming block | India (IST) | US Eastern | US Pacific |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning bhajan, aarti and darshan | 6:00–8:00 am | 8:30–10:30 pm previous day | 5:30–7:30 pm previous day |
| Morning news and market open | 9:00–11:00 am | 11:30 pm–1:30 am | 8:30–10:30 pm previous day |
| Afternoon serials and cookery | 1:00–4:00 pm | 3:30–6:30 am | 12:30–3:30 am |
| Evening bulletin and debate | 7:00–9:00 pm | 9:30–11:30 am | 6:30–8:30 am |
| Prime-time drama and natak | 8:00–11:00 pm | 10:30 am–1:30 pm | 7:30–10:30 am |
| Navratri garba, live | 9:00 pm–2:00 am | 11:30 am–4:30 pm | 8:30 am–1:30 pm |
Times shown for North American daylight saving, when Eastern is 9½ hours behind IST and Pacific 12½. In winter add an hour to each North American figure. Because nearly every block lands inside your working day, the seven-day catch-up window is the feature most Gujarati households end up using every single day.
Children who understand Gujarati but answer in English
It is the standard second-generation pattern and it is not a failure of effort. Gujarati at home is affectionate, domestic and small — food, instructions, scolding, endearments. Children learn that register fluently and stop there, because nothing in their day asks them for the rest of it.
Television supplies the rest of it. A news bulletin uses formal Gujarati nobody speaks at the dinner table. A natak carries idiom, timing and jokes that only work in Gujarati. Dayro moves at a storyteller's pace, which is easier to follow than conversation. Children who watch with the family pick up vocabulary they have no other way of meeting.
For the script, subtitles are the practical tool. Gujarati is written without the connecting headline that runs across Devanagari, which makes the letters easier to separate visually than many parents expect — and seeing a word written while hearing it spoken is what joins the two together.
- Keep one channel on during the day — passive exposure does more than scheduled lessons.
- Watch the aarti and the festival broadcasts together — the language arrives attached to something they care about.
- Turn on Gujarati subtitles where a programme offers them, for the script.
- Let grandparents choose — devotional and dayro programming is often what pulls three generations onto one sofa.
One account instead of six apps
Most households abroad have accumulated a drawer of subscriptions: one app for serials, another for films, something for news, a separate sports pass, and a set-top box left over from a provider that stopped answering email. The bills add up and the content still has gaps.
One subscription here replaces that. Live channels, catch-up and on demand together, every Indian language included, and no two-year contract to get out of. If you are comparing, the subscription plans page lists what each term costs, and the set-top box page covers the hardware if you want a single remote in the house.
If you have been let down before: providers in this market do disappear. We wrote up what to check before you pay anyone, including us — billing transparency, a real support channel, and a trial you can judge on your own television before money changes hands.
Setting it up, start to finish
- Request the free trial. Twenty-four hours, no card details, no billing information. Say Gujarati when you apply and the trial is set up with the Gujarati channels in place.
- Install the app on what you already own. Smart TV, Firestick, Android TV, phone, tablet or laptop. If you would rather not install anything, a set-top box arrives configured.
- Sign in and check the picture. Watch a live Gujarati bulletin and a natak on your own television, on your own broadband, at the time of day you normally watch.
- Choose a term if it works. Monthly through to multi-year on the subscription plans page. Nothing is charged while the trial runs.
Reckon on about 15 Mbps of reliable bandwidth per HD stream and 25 Mbps or more for 4K or several screens at once. A cable from router to television, where the layout allows it, fixes most picture complaints.
Works on what is already in the house
- Smart TV
- Amazon Firestick
- Android TV
- Apple devices
- Phone and tablet
- Laptop
- Set-top box
Other language packages
All of them are included in a single subscription — the pages exist so you can see what each language carries, not because they are sold separately.
Gujarati IPTV: common questions
Everything Gujarati households in the USA and Canada ask us before signing up.
How many Gujarati channels are included?
More than 90 live Gujarati channels, covering news and business, natak, serials, cinema, devotional and santvani programming, dayro and folk, music, cookery, children's shows and sport. Gujarati films on demand are included at no extra cost, and the same subscription carries every other Indian language pack.
Can I watch Navratri garba live from Gujarat?
Yes, and the timing works unusually well. Garba in Gujarat runs from roughly 9pm to 2am IST, which is about 11:30am to 4:30pm US Eastern and 8:30am to 1:30pm Pacific during daylight saving. You can watch the live transmission from the big Vadodara and Ahmedabad grounds during the day and still attend your own local garba that evening. Anything you miss stays on the seven-day catch-up.
Is Gujarati natak broadcast?
Yes. Gujarati theatre is the strongest commercial regional stage tradition in India, and full productions are recorded and broadcast rather than only reviewed. It is the single category Gujarati viewers abroad tell us they cannot find anywhere else.
Do you carry dayro and loksahitya programming?
Yes. Dayro, duha, chhand and the wider Saurashtra folk storytelling tradition are broadcast at length on the folk and devotional channels, alongside bhavai folk theatre and Kutchi and Kathiawari folk music.
Is there Jain programming, including Paryushan?
Yes. Pravachan, stavan and derasar darshan run through the year, and Paryushan is covered as the eight-day cycle it is, ending with Samvatsari, along with Mahavir Jayanti in Chaitra.
When is Gujarati New Year, and is it covered?
Gujarati New Year is Bestu Varas, the first day of Kartak, which falls the day after Diwali rather than in spring. Channels build a full week of programming around Dhanteras, Kali Chaudas, Diwali, Bestu Varas, Bhai Beej and Labh Pancham, and all of it stays on catch-up, which is what makes it watchable when the week falls across your working days.
Is Uttarayan, the kite festival, broadcast?
Yes. Uttarayan falls on 14 January and is covered heavily, particularly from Ahmedabad and Vadodara, with rooftop coverage through the day and the lantern-filled evening of Vasi Uttarayan that follows.
What time do Gujarati serials and the evening news air here?
The evening bulletin runs about 7:00 to 9:00 pm IST and prime-time drama 8:00 to 11:00 pm, which during daylight saving is roughly 9:30 am to 1:30 pm on the US East Coast and 6:30 to 10:30 am on the West Coast, an hour earlier in winter. Because that sits inside the working day, most households watch on the seven-day catch-up in the evening.
Will it help my children learn Gujarati?
It helps most with the register children abroad never meet — formal Gujarati from a news bulletin, idiom and comic timing from a natak, narrative pace from dayro. For reading, turning on Gujarati subtitles where a programme offers them connects the sound of a word to the written form.
Does the Gujarati package work in Canada?
Yes. It works the same in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Scarborough, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal or Vancouver as anywhere in the United States, because everything travels over broadband rather than a dish.
Do I need a dish or a set-top box?
No dish at any point. Any television with an HDMI socket will do, as will a tablet, a laptop or a phone. A set-top box is optional and worth considering when older family members want one remote and no menus to learn.
Can several people in the house watch different channels?
Yes, multi-screen viewing is available, which matters most during Navratri and Diwali week when the house is full. Tell us how many screens you need when you request the trial and we will set the plan up accordingly.
What internet speed do I need?
Reckon on 15 Mbps of reliable bandwidth per HD channel, rising to 25 Mbps and above for 4K or for several people watching in different rooms. A cable from router to television, where the layout allows it, clears up most complaints about picture quality.
Can I try Gujarati channels before paying?
Yes. The 24-hour trial runs without any payment information at all. Mention Gujarati when you apply and the trial will be set up with the Gujarati channels so you can judge picture quality on your own television.
Is the service licensed?
Content is delivered through authorised distribution partners. We do not host or rebroadcast programming ourselves and we do not carry unlicensed feeds.
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