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I can’t believe it’s already the second time I’m writing a Diwali post on this blog. Diwali is a 5 day long festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness as good over evil (click here to know more). So first of all, a very happy Diwali to all of you. Last year when I posted about the celebration of this beautiful festival here, it got lots of love from my readers so I thought I should definitely do a Diwali special post this year too. It’s my most favorite festival after all (but of course my birthday comes first). Since the main celebration was yesterday, all I could write was a ‘Highlights of…’ post so here it is. Hope you enjoy!

(Read this post on the website for a better reading experience)

Whenever I think about Diwali, the first word that comes into my mind is ‘work’ – lots of work. Cleaning, renovating, decorating and all kinds of work you can think of to make your place look better and beautiful. And I don’t understand why as each year passes by the work gets double. And for Diwali when I say ‘cleaning the house’, it means that every single corner of the house should be cleaned. And the funny thing is that no matter how hard you try it’s impossible.

Still I worked like hell with my family and the results were quite satisfying. You know, that’s the best thing about Diwali, this festival just makes you feel so happy from inside that you don’t care about anything else.

Yesterday morning, when the cleaning seemed done (at least for me) I got another work. I had to collect flowers to make malas (garlands) for decoration and puja. I know everyone just go and buy flowers for decorating their houses but I don’t know why I just don’t like it even a bit. Maybe because it’s something I get to do only once a year so… haha. Anyways, I was talking about these flowers…

For Diwali, we mostly use marigolds as you can see in the pictures above, I found these two beauties too. I love how the hibiscus shines because of sunrays and then roses are roses of course.

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I spent the whole day making malas and babysitting my cousin’s daughter, my happiness and excitement was on the peak in the evening. Everything was looking so beautiful and watching how there was a smile on people’s face, I loved it so much.

After an hour, we lit oil lamps…

This is definitely my favorite part of this festival. Clay lamps are honestly the best.

I’m sorry for less pictures this time, I was really busy that I couldn’t capture the complete decoration in pictures. In one of the pictures above you can also see my sister making rangoli. Actually there was no time left to make a rangoli in the day and everyone was busy too, then we also had to do the puja (prayer/worship) but Diwali is kinda incomplete without a rangoli you know, so I and my sister decided to make one after everything was done.

We completed it at night but I was just so sleepy at the moment, right after our rangoli was done I fell on the bed. Today when I woke up I realised I had no pictures of the rangoli we made so I captured this today…

After doing puja, we also played with some fire crackers and how can I forget about sweets. It was the best moment of the day. Celebrating Diwali with everyone and eating sweets. It was literally my best ever Diwali, it seemed so perfect.

So that’s how I celebrated Diwali with my family. Hope you enjoyed this post! Once again, a very happy diwali to all of you. May this festival of lights fulfill your life with happiness and joys.

What do you like the most about Diwali? How do you celebrate it?

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