Kelly in India: Episode 06. Diwali Festival of Lights

“The decoration that we use in the West for Christmas in and around our houses is used in India during Diwali.”

The Diwali festival is celebrated 10 days after the Dussera festival. This is the festival of light. Symbolically this represents the victory of light over darkness. It welcomes the light in our lives that is associated with success and hope. It is accompanied by a lot of firework. Sometimes there is so many fireworks that alarms on air pollution get triggered.

This festival is as important as Christmas and New Year in the West. The decoration that we use in the West for Christmas in and around our houses is used in India during Diwali.

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