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Diwali Puja For Dummies!

It is Diwali time and there must be quite a few of us out there who are clueless about performing the Diwali Puja on their own! Though most people are with there parents and families there are many young couples and singles celebrating Di [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Diwali: Festival Of Lights, Harmony

Diwali popularly known as the "festival of lights", is an important festival of Hindus, celebrated for different reasons, occurring between mid-October and mid-November. It marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year according to [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Thousands attend Leicester Diwali lights switch-on

Communities gathered on the Golden Mile on Sunday to celebrate the Hindu festival with music, singing, dancing and a firework and laser display. Leicester's celebrations of the festival of light are thought to be the largest outside I [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

More space for Diwali festival

FIREWORKS will light up the skies in celebration of Diwali, or the “festival of lights”, at the FNB Gauteng Diwali Festival, taking place at the newly renovated Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday, 15 October. Colour [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Diwali - the festival of Light, Prosperity and Happiness

Among many festivals of India, Deepavali also known as Diwali occupies an important place as the festival of Lights, prosperity and happiness. Diwali is a five days Hindu festival. People in general make elaborate preparations for. This [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Gujarati dancers at Diwali Festival on Sunday

Asia New Zealand Foundation One of India’s top folk dance groups from Gujarat – original home of many Indian New Zealanders – will perform at the 2009 Diwali Festival of Lights in Wellington on Sunday. The Saurashtra Lok K [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Diwali celebrated in Malaysia

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdulah Ahmed Badawi and his cabinet ministers on Monday joined the nationwide celebrations of the Indian festival of Diwali, reinforcing the country's multi-racial traditions. Heralded by good weather in most par [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

Festival of Lights-Diwali-The Hindu festival celebrated all...

Festival of Lights,lighting a an oil based lamps a symbolic way of our spirit to get rid of darkness and let the inner light lit our self.it is also said the that as invention of fire came to knowledge of human beings,the material comforts [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Diwali

Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is the best known of Hindu celebrations and certainly the brightest. Amid the darkest skies of autumn, lights brighten homes throughout India—a sign of welcome to the gods Rama and Lakshmi. [...]