diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
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@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ For detailed examples and help, please see individual module files in this packa
 - [Web](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jyotisha).
 
 ## Usage
-- REST API/ swagger web interface - at [vedavaapi](http://api.vedavaapi.org/jyotisha).
+- REST API/ swagger web interface 
+    - Deployments at [vedavaapi](http://api.vedavaapi.org/jyotisha).
 - Please see the generated python sphynx docs in one of the following places:
     - http://jyotisha.readthedocs.io [Broken as of 20170828.]
     - [project page](https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/jyotisha/build/html/jyotisha.html).
diff --git a/jyotisha/panchangam/temporal/festival b/jyotisha/panchangam/temporal/festival
index 61cb24af9965..09573c5f6660 160000
--- a/jyotisha/panchangam/temporal/festival
+++ b/jyotisha/panchangam/temporal/festival
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 61cb24af9965a5393d246ae431cdabc3b7ed2e38
+Subproject commit 09573c5f666086a5bf3214408c8e8b1cf7d0b3b8
diff --git a/jyotisha/rest_api/__init__.py b/jyotisha/rest_api/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2d1..08128d2c662a 100644
--- a/jyotisha/rest_api/__init__.py
+++ b/jyotisha/rest_api/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""
+This package contains rest-api and a simple flask server.
+
+Instructions for running:
+- Create config_local.json based on config_template.json in this package.
+- Run run.py.
+
+"""
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