About Diwali Festival in India:
We look forward for Diwali every year as it is one of the main festivals of Hindus in India. A collection of days, where you get to celebrate with your family and friends along with authentic Diwali sweets, crackers, rangoli, colors and lots of shopping is what Diwali is all about.
Diwali was first celebrated in India, when Lord Rama came back to Ayodhya from his 14 years of exile, after gaining victory over Ravana. The people living in Ayodhya were so excited, thrilled and over-joyed to have their Rama back, that they lit the whole Ayodhya City with lights in form of diyas and drew colorful rangolis everywhere to welcome their lord. Since then Diwali is been celebrated in India as a mark of victory over the evil, every year in the Ashwin month, as per the Hindu Calendar. This festival is celebrated for 5 days and is usually either at the end of October or in the first week of November. Each day of Diwali has its own significance, like Narak Chaturdarshi is celebrated for the victory of Lord Krishna over Narakasur, Laxmipujan is celebrated to worship Goddess Laxmi and Padwaa is celebrated to celebrate the special bonding between husband and wife, Deepawali is celebrated for the victory of Lord Vishnu over Bali and Bhaubeej is celebrated for the bonding between brothers and sisters.
Diwali was first celebrated in India, when Lord Rama came back to Ayodhya from his 14 years of exile, after gaining victory over Ravana. The people living in Ayodhya were so excited, thrilled and over-joyed to have their Rama back, that they lit the whole Ayodhya City with lights in form of diyas and drew colorful rangolis everywhere to welcome their lord. Since then Diwali is been celebrated in India as a mark of victory over the evil, every year in the Ashwin month, as per the Hindu Calendar. This festival is celebrated for 5 days and is usually either at the end of October or in the first week of November. Each day of Diwali has its own significance, like Narak Chaturdarshi is celebrated for the victory of Lord Krishna over Narakasur, Laxmipujan is celebrated to worship Goddess Laxmi and Padwaa is celebrated to celebrate the special bonding between husband and wife, Deepawali is celebrated for the victory of Lord Vishnu over Bali and Bhaubeej is celebrated for the bonding between brothers and sisters.
Though Diwali falls on as mentioned, last week of October or first week of November every year, yet we start our preparations way ahead in the beginning of October. For us Diwali is about decorating the house, giving it a new look, shopping for clothes, buying rangoli colors, buying lanterns (preferably new every year), making sweets, buying crackers, visiting family and friends and eating lots.
One reason why we really look forward for this festival is because of the happiness and joy attached to it. It is highly refreshing for us to spend time and relax in Diwali. Though we have to visit people and be a perfect hostess, get dressed, prepare lots of sweets and do few other exhausting stuffs, yet its refreshing.
My child looks forward for Diwali because of the crackers that he gets to lit with his father (some father-son qualitative time), the sweets that he gets to eat, the gifts that he receives and also for the vacation that he gets to enjoy(more than 20 days vacations). Similarly every other person has his own reason to look forward for the Diwali Festival.
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