Diwali 2010: Festival of Lights Celebrated Around World (Recipes)

Happy Diwali! Diwali, also called Divali or Deepavali or the Festival of Lights is a five-day festival celebrated between mid-October and mid-November and is honored by families around the world. Hindus consider...

Festival of lights shines in Toronto Canada

Hindus and Sikhs celebrated Diwali in a big way this year with Mahautsav, a 30-hour concert and film premiere. Mahautsav, which is being touted as the biggest and longest South Asian event in the history of...

Diwali on foreign shores; Toronto, Canada World champion

According to a survey done by an airfare deals website, Diwali happens to be one of the top five festivals of the world that shouldn’t be missed. The festival of lights is no longer limited to Indian shores – in fact, it’s as famous as Bollywood all over the world. From...

Diwali Festival of Lights - Darkness under the Lamp

Diwali a most cherished festival of India and arguably it is the festival for all walks of life.   Millions of dollars are burnt in the form of Fireworks and each family has the share in it. Even a...

Diwali Begins on October 17

Diwali begins on October 17, and people around the world are starting to prepare. Diwali (also called Deepavali) is the Festival of Lights in Hinduism, as well as in Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. Diwali is...

Price Of Gold At All-Time High

The price of gold keeps on rising and has hit an all-time high of $1,040.15 per ounce after the dollar loses some of its value. The last time gold hit a new high, 1,032.80, was in March 2008. Gold and other metals have become increasingly popular among investors as the dollar...

2 girls burnt alive for visiting boys in India

Urban India is progressing fast and aping the west in every posisble way. Love marriages, Live in relationship and extra marital relationship are not very uncommon in urban India. But in some part of the country their rural cousins are still living in stone age. Deep rooted...

Diwali in Karachi

The place resounded with the sound of devotional songs, temple bells and loud firecrackers. All around, there was illumination. I attended the Diwali celebrations at the Swaminarayan temple a short while ago. It...

Diwali 'Festival of Lights' Celebrations on October 28th

One of India's major holidays, the 'Festival of Lights' known as Diwali (or Deepavali) is being celebrated on October 28, 2008. The festival is an important symbolic 'renewal of life' that is celebrated by...

Hindu Festival of Lights in India: A Happy Diwali to all

" 2008-10-28 06:30:06 - The Most colorful festival of Indian subcontinent is being celebrated today as the entire country goes worshiping Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha,as Lakshmi the Goddess of wealth and...

October 28, Diwali 2008, School Tips (BBC) and Bollywood New Flicks (Golmaal ...

As Diwali 2008 is about to start (October 28), the BBC shares Some Diwali Basics with us as well as ways for British schools to get kids to know about it.As I mentioned in 2007, the holiday season usually sees the release of a number of movies hoping to break through.No big...

Dazzling Dance Show to mark Diwali in London

October 21, London- The pioneer of Manipur and Tagore dance has done it again. Bithika Raha, the woman behind Nrityakala The Rhythm, has organised another evening of dazzling dances to mark the festivities of...

Do you Remember her, Lakshmi (who was born with four arms and four legs ) - ...

This was in the news last year and it's really good to know that she is doing so well. I just wanted this to share with everyone. I am also putting the original news below, so you can see the amazing journey...

Is 'Om Shanti Om' the Hot Diwali Fim Release?

While Hollywood is under the spell of the writers strike, Bollywood is offering a slew of new releases for Diwali. I am not a specialist of the genre so I turned to the Movie Page of online Indian community site Sulekha to get the temperature of the holiday.

Surfing on the Coat Tails of 'National Novel Writing Month'...

I forgot about the yearly November Novel Writing Month event or should we call it a marathon until Burstblog mentioned it today in step with National Blog Posting Month, another motivational undertaking. Is exhaustion the main result of these contests?

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