🪔 Celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights!! 🪔

Diwali or Deepawali is one of the most popular Hindu festivals, which signifies the victory of Light over dark, good over evil and so on. Lord Ram came back to Ayodhya after killing the asura (demon) Ravan and completing 14 years of exile in the forest. It is believed that people in Ayodhya celebrated the return of their Prince by lighting up Diyas (oil lamps), candles etc and made one of the darkest nights of the year so bright and colourful. No wonder this festival is popularly dubbed the "Festival of Lights"

Diwali is a multi-day celebration and goes on for like 4-5 days easily.

We clean our homes thoroughly and decorate them with colourful lights, make some rangoli designs and light Diyas, candles etc. In the evening, we pray to Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesh and so many other deities.

As a family, we helped in cleaning and decorating our home just like every year. Putting up lights on anything makes it look much better and that's what we did...haha

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How about more lights!! Surely, it can't be bad...right?

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These modern lights are cool and all but you can't get the same satisfaction and positive energy that you get from lightning up the traditional clay Diyas (oil lamps).

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And don't you think that this was the only tray we had full of Diyas, we had two more even bigger than this one. Which we carefully placed all over the house. Some on the roof, on stairs, balconies you name it. But they go well with some colourful Rangoli

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I and my sister made this colourful Rangoli. Okay, it was mostly her but I helped. We recorded a time-lapse video of us making this piece of art but I think I will keep it to myself. Such a precious memory!

Not just that she made a couple of other rangoli. All credit to her in the following ones!

The above one is made with flowers and lots of lights with a big lamp at the centre. This one is my favourite of them all. Looks lovely in a dark room.

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And the last rangoli was not bad either! Using bright colours and diyas as decoration. Which one is your favourite? Do tell us in the comment section below.

Children also burst crackers and fireworks during the night. Even with a ban on firecrackers (due to increased pollution levels around my city at this time of the year) there were plenty of people bursting them and celebrating this festival. We used to burst a lot of crackers when we were small but not anymore. Those were the days, I guess!

Oh, and one important thing I missed is the food! Lots of sweets and dishes are made. Sorry, I was too busy eating them I failed to take those pictures. xD

Share in the comments how you celebrate this Diwali festival and what makes it memorable to you. I love to see the entire country celebrating this festival of lights in their unique ways.

Tagging some people to say Happy Diwali to them. May the light be with you always! (Sorry for the tag spam)
@steemflow @sayee @bhattg @inuke @theindiankid @bala41288 @mango-juice @thetimetravelerz @certain @mysteriousroad @alokkumar121 @gungunkrishu @untilwelearn @catharsis @abhay2695 @shadowspub @semarekha @luckyali @thekittygirl @jamerussell @brittandjosie @fantagira7 @dlmmqb @les90 @amberkashif @idksamad78699 @shadowspub @alessandrawhite @queenstarr @b0s @ayamihaya @melinda010100 @beeber @palomap3 @incublus @bemier @ph1102 @yaziris @grindan @wesphilbin @wittyzell

I know I missed a lot of names. These were all the names I could think of on top of my mind and I missed a few just to not disturb them. Sorry, but all the above-tagged ones need to be disturbed. #SorryNotSorry 😜

Thanks for reading...

Namaste 🙏

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