Diwali Indian Festival
The diwali festival actually runs for five days with the main event happening on the third day in most places in india.
Diwali indian festival. The festival gets its name from the row avali of clay lamps deepa that indians light outside their homes to. This five day festival which is the biggest in india honors the victory of good over evil and brightness over darkness. Diwali mela 2020 festival of india the biggest multicultural festival of indian diaspora in wa on 7th and 8th november 2020 at the claremont showground. Diwali also spelled divali one of the major religious festivals in hinduism lasting for five days from the 13th day of the dark half of the lunar month ashvina to the second day of the light half of karttika.
Dipavali or divali is the indian festival of lights usually lasting five days and celebrated during the hindu lunisolar month kartika between mid october and mid november. The hindu holiday of diwali will take place this saturday nov. This years date of celebration starts november 14 2020. Each of the four days in the festival of diwali is marked with a different tradition.
What remains constant is the celebration of life its enjoyment and a sense of goodness. Diwali or dipawali is indias biggest and most important holiday of the year. The diwali festival occurs in late october or early november. The hindu festival of light is the.
Its associated with lord rams return to his kingdom in ayodhya after exile and rescuing his wife from demon king ravan on dussehra. It falls on the 15th day of the hindu month of kartik so it varies every year. Diwali or deepavali in sanskrit literally means a row of lights. D w l i.
As communicated in my previous email below this year diwali mela will have ticketed entry to ensure controlled crowd at the venue. Diwali is the festival of lights observed by indian communities around the world. However in south india the festival is observed as the defeat of narakasura.