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Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is a five-day festival which falls on Thursday, October 23th this year.

In English, the term Diwali can be trans-lated into “a row of lights,” and the festival is also called Divali or Deepavali.

The Hindu festival is celebrated annually on the 13th lunar day of the Krishna paksha of the Hindu calendar month of Ashwin. Falling in accordance with the luni-solar Hindu calendar, the Diwali festival unites friends and family in celebration each year.

The holiday originated as a harvest fes-tival that marked the last harvest before winter. For those of the Hindu faith, this is the most important festival of the year, and is celebrated by families engaging in tradi-tional activities at home.

Though celebrated around the world, Diwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Malaysia and Fiji.

Dhanteras starts the first day of the festi-val, which is significant in Indian business communities as many people make cus-tomary purchases of precious metals. On

the first day of Diwali, housewives consider it auspicious to clean the home and shop for gold or kitchen utensils. Many people wear new clothes and jewelry as they light the first lamp of Diwali.

Naraka Chaturdasi is the second day of the festival, where people decorate their homes with clay lamps or diyas and create design patterns called rangoli on the floor using coloured powders or sand.

Amavasya is celebrated on the third day with the worship of Lakshimi, the god-dess of wealth. This is the main day of the festival when families gather together for Lakshmi puja, a prayer to Lakshmi, followed by mouth-watering feasts and firework fes-tivities.

Kartika Shudda Padyami is celebrated on the fourth day and on the fifth day Yama Dvitiya is recognized, where sisters invite brothers into their homes, and welcome them with love and a lavish meal.

Throughout the festival, celebrators wear new clothing, jewelry and come together as families and friends in order to share enter-tainment, food and treats. Homes are deco-

rated with lights and candles and cleaned to represent a new start.

Diwali involves lighting small clay lamps filled with oil to represent the victory of good over evil. The lamps are kept lit over-night and the house is tidied to make the goddess Lakshmi feel welcome. Firecrackers

are often set off to ward away evil spirits,but these items are illegal to set off inAbbotsford.

The festival is a celebration of the tri-umph of good over evil, the return of Lord Sama, Sita, and Lakshmana from exile andthe defeat of Ravana.

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Diwali is one of the most important Hindu festivals in India – but the colourful customs and meanings associ-ated with it can vary dramatically depending on whether you reside in the countryside or

the city.

On the streets of densely populated con-urbations like Mum-bai, Diwali – popularly known as the Festival of Lights – is often a raucous affair, marked by a cacophony of fire-

crackers on the streets and a flourish of cer-emonial gambling in the home. The wealth-ier urban dwellers splurge on gold, jewelry, clothes and expensive gifts such as electron-ics, which they buy for

The meaning of Diwali themselves and their loved ones.

In the quiet tribal villages, such as those dotted around the vast state of Maharashtra in the west of India, the celebration is generally a more simple affair, defined by humble offerings and whole-some feasts. Few, if any, firecrackers are burst and many follow their own particular tribal traditions. Most vil-lagers try to buy new clothes, but few can afford gold, jewelry or elaborate gifts.

There are some Diwali rituals common across most of the sub-continent. In both city and countryside, small clay oil lamps (or diyas) are placed at the thresh-olds of homes, shops and offices throughout the five-day affair to celebrate the legend of the return of the Hindu god, Lord Rama, to his kingdom after 14 years in exile. According to mythology his people lit diyas to welcome his return.

Hindus in cities and villages also believe

that during Diwali the Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, will visit their homes if they are lit, clean and beau-tifully decorated.

Windows and doors are left open to let the goddess in and homes are cleaned from top to bottom.

Brightly-coloured rangolis are drawn using fingers on the ground at the entrances to homes and offices. These geo-metric designs are usu-ally symbols of nature and their purpose is to welcome guests and to encourage Lakshmi inside.

Gambling card gamesare often played in bothvillages and cities, as it is generally consideredauspicious to gamble during Diwali.

This started from alegend that a Hindu deity played a dicegame with his consorton the fourth day of Diwali and she won. Some Hindus believe Lakshmi can be invokedthrough gambling.

Gambling parties arean especially popular pastime during Diwaliin Mumbai. The par-ties typically start at 10pm in bungalows and farmhouses andcontinue well into the early morning.

“Bets can start assmall as Rs 20 (40 cents)and as big as Rs 5,000 ($93). In a night people can lose up to Rs 50,000 ($930),” explains VikramMehta, 30, founder of Red Om Entertainment.

“People don’t mindlosing – it’s part of the ambiance and peo-ple are having fun. Everyone dresses up, everyone is on holi-day, everyone is invit-

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“People sit on mat-tresses on the floor. There are rooms wherethe kids play for fun and then other roomswith the higher stakes,” Mehta says. The homes are decorated withdiyas, people dress in traditional Indian dress, servants wan-der round with plattersof kebabs, biryani andIndian sweets, he adds.

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“The modern world is changing and festivals are the only way to keep our culture

and traditions alive.”

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Diwali also marks the start of the new Hindu financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books. Businessmen in cer-tain states, particularly Gujarat, worship their accounts books.

There are various other rituals celebrated in towns and villages on each of the five days. For example, on the last day of Diwali in many parts of India, a sister cooks for her brother and he bestows gifts on her in celebration of the love between siblings.

“The modern world is changing and festivals are the only way to keep our culture and tradi-tions alive. For us Diwali is the victory of good over evil, the returning of good back into our lives and starting a new year with a positive approach and forget-ting all the bad that has happened,” says 45-year-old Mumbai housewife Heena Damle.

Typically fire crack-ers are set off from dusk, often throughout the night. The noise is believed to herald the defeat of evil and catch the attention of the gods.

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