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Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024 Deepavali, the Hindu festival of lights, is one of the most popular and favorite festivals of Indians. The entire country is illuminated with glittering lights, both traditional and electrical. The festival brings happiness and joy in the families. Many a times, fire accidents take place while celebrating the festival and people may get affected due to such fire accidents. Even while making crackers / fireworks in the manufacturing factories at Sivakasi, fire mishaps may occur. Recently, there was a fire accident in one of the cracker manufacturing factories in Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu and few workers lost their lives. Keeping in view the fire accidents and the harmful effects of Deepavali, people should celebrate the festival in a much safer and environment-friendly way. This would help in preventing the pollution caused and also helps in preventing various health related problems among the fellow being. The festival can be celebrated...

Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024 Deepavali, the Hindu festival of lights, is one of the most important and most enjoyed Hindu festivals celebrated on the Amavasya (moonless night) day in the Hindu month of Aswayuja. There are few mythological stories connected with the festival of lights. Some of these are popular in South India while others are popular in North India. The famous mythological story in South India is Narakasura vadha i.e killing of Narakasura by Satyabha and Lord Krishna in the Dwapara Yuga. People in the Dwapara Yuga rejoiced the death of Narakasura a day before Deepavali Amavasya by decorating their homes with fresh seasonal floral garlands and oil lit diyas. It was a gesture of arrival of light / happiness in their lives by removing darkness. It indicates that people in the yuga got rid of the atrocities (darker part in their lives) of the wicked asura. They happily welcomed their beloved leader Lord Krishna and his wife Satyabhama with fervor and enth...

Deepavali is the Hindu festival of lights. It is a festival of joy and is enjoyed the most. There is much preparation well in advance for a joyous celebration of Diwali. Women folk in particular are fond of decorating their homes for celebrating the festival in the grandest way. They get involved in and keep themselves busy in making decorative diyas and thus showcase their talent. Basically, people in Southern states light up oil lamps at the main entrance gate and in their balconies. Due to cultural assimilation, now there is a trend of decorating / lighting up home with decorative diyas. Those who are interested in handmade items will be busy with the making of decorative diyas i.e earthen lamps. This is a good opportunity for the women to showcase their inherent talent of decorating diyas. This has even become a profession for the skillful / talented ones. They arrange exhibition-cum-sale of their hand made decorated diyas, This is a wonderful earning opportunity for the wo...

Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024 Deepavali is one of the most popular Hindu festivals that is celebrated with much enthusiasm and festive spirit. The true meaning of Deepavali is the festival of lights. Unfortunately, these days the festival of Diwali has become synonymous with fireworks and bursting of crackers. Manufacturing of fireworks in the small scale industries like Sivakasi generate much revenue and provide employment to many. On the other hand, bursting of fire crackers pollute the environment and is hazardous to the individuals of the society. Let's list out the harmful effects of fireworks and bursting of crackers on the Deepavali day. Harmful effects of fireworks Due to excessive smoke produced by the fire crackers, the pollution levels in the air shoot up. High levels of pollutants cause various respiratory tract diseases and skin diseases in the humans, in particular it aggravates the problem of asthma patients and patient with chronic respiratory trac...

Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024. Deepavali is the festival of lights and it is customary to light up the homes on this festival day. The Hindu women are very fond of decorating their homes with rangolis i.e floral designs on floors, toran i.e door hangings, floral decoration and arranging lighted lamps i.e diyas on Deepavali day. Decorating with flowers, rangolis and diyas depends on one's taste, liking and of course time and health. The way of decorating homes on Deepavali day differs from region to region. However, it is predominantly the decoration of oil lit lamps. In the olden days oil lit lamps were used for decorating homes on Deepavali day which is gradually replaced with candles and electric lamps as these are easier to use and are stain-free. Decorating and lighting up of Pooja room is important for Hindus. You can decorate and light up the pooja room as per your liking and taste. Rangoli with lighted lamps at the main entrance is equally important. Decora...

Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024. It's Diwali time and people are busy preparing for the festival in their own way. For those who are interested in art work and looking for creative ideas for recycling household waste, its time to upcycle the old diyas to give a new and ethnic look. Here is how you can upcycle your old diyas to give a new look, this Diwali. This is an old diya which I used last year. I thought of giving a new look to it without any extra purchase but using the materials available at home. So, just added colors to it and gave a shining look by sticking few glowing chips. And here is the upcycled decorative diya, ready for use this Diwali. So, also, I used this wide mouthed earthen diya known as 'paalika' in Telugu. Palika is used in traditional Telugu Brahmin marriage by the bride's family. After marriage, the bride's mother gives these 'palikalu' to married women in her close circle. Here is one such 'palika' before up...

Deepavali Date 2024: Thursday October 31, 2024. 'Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya' - one of the famous prayers in Hindu Upanishads which literally means 'lead me from darkness to light'. Darkness zeros down the visibility while light makes things clearly visible. One should come out of the darkness i.e ignorance and go ahead in the lighted / enlightened path for a harmonious and healthy living in the society. Deepavali is one of the most important and popular Hindu festivals. It is celebrated on the dark Amavasya (No Moon) night / moonless night in the Hindu month of Aswayuja. It has become a tradition for Hindus to light up their homes with traditional oil lamps i.e diyas on Deepavali night to kill the darkness of Amavasya. Deepavali literally means an array of lights. The festival is popularly known as the Hindu festival of lights. Deepavali is the most favorite festival of Indians and is the most awaited festival. The excitement and celebratory spirit that Deepavali br...

Dhana Trayodasi Date 2024: Wednesday October 30th, 2024 Dhanteras known as Dhana Trayodasi in South India falls on the 13th day after Kumara Purnima. This year the festival is celebrated on October 26, 2019 (Saturday). Dhanteras is the first day of the 5-day festive of Diwali - the Hindu festival of lights. Diwali is the most awaited festival for the Hindus which is celebrated with much enthusiasm and fervor. Hindus particularly in the Northern states get themselves much involved in the 5-day festival celebrations from the day of Dhanteras. Generally the festival falls in the months of Oct / Nov every year. Dhanteras is followed by Naraka Chaturdasi which is known as Kalichaudas in the Northern states i.e the 14th day after Kumara Purnima / Kojagiri Purnima. The next day which is a no moon day / moonless night, is celebrated as Diwali / Deepavali Amavasya. The next day after Diwali is celebrated as New Year's day by the people of few regions of the country particularly by the bu...