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Yes! Indian Diwali is special

Posted in Youth Corner

Published on November 06, 2015 with No Comments

Hameeta Kaur Malhotra(24), M.A. English, An avid reader, Writer, Foodie, Lover of Literature, Linguistics and Sarcasm

Diwali is imminent and a time when engagements to get together with friends, extended families and relatives are made. We catch up with everybody’s lives and find out about the latest gossip (who is pissed off with whom for what trivial reason, how badly X behaved with Y and what are the fashion trends this season in Indian attires). Indian festivals especially the Diwali is celebrated in the same way as other festivities- wear fancy outfits, eat Indian food, dance to latest Bollywood songs but there is something different in its ambience. The lamps, the lights and the fire crackers or a special Diwali Pooja has its own charm and spell.

‘Festival of lights’ or ‘Deepawali’ is an understatement for this pompous and grand festival. Diwali is much more than this. It has a lavish gamut. Diwali fairs, bumper sales, rangoli making, diwali lottery contests, school functions holding diya and poster making contests ,kitty parties in society and much more. People living away from their homeland undoubtedly feel homesick during Diwali. They are rubbed by constant wishes from relatives back home which is further instigated by special programmes and news by Indian channels showing the savour and flavour of Diwali.

This is a high time when people get patriotic and nostalgic outbursts and value their home town like never before. People exclaim sitting abroad “I used to play with crackers until midnight”, “Mithai (sweets) from X halwai (sweet maker) is irreplaceable in our town” and “I and my sister used to make rangoli covering whole of the entrance of our house” entailing that nothing replaces Indian Diwali bonanza.

I am reminded of my grandfather here who used to get emotional during Diwali (missing his daughters living abroad) saying me “Your father and aunts used to fight for crackers that I used to bring from them. We used to light ‘diyas’ instead of Chinese lights and those times were enriched with love, life and vitality.”

Although into the mode of ‘Green Cause’ many Indians are now resisting to play with crackers and celebrate Diwali with less noise and pollution but the magnitude of celebration is still infused with zing and zeal. The competing fireworks (Anar, aatishbaazi, fuljhari and chakri) and the commotion is irresistible for anyone and one surely lands outside of his house and gaze in the sky and cherishes the enigma and clamour which is beyond narration. 

 

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