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Diwali

Diwali is the biggest and famous Hindu festival, which is also known as the festival of lights. Diwali is celebrated after eighteen days of Dashera (Vijyadashmi) festival in an autumn month every year. This year Diwali will be celebrated on 7^th November 2018. Diwali festival is the symbol of victory of good over bad (evil). It is a saying and faith that when Lord Ram reached home after killing demon Ravan people in Ayodhya celebrated this victory of Lord Ram with lights by enlightening lamps and deeps. People of Ayodhya celebrated the returning of Lord Ram to Ayodhya in form of a lights and lamps festival which is now a day known as Diwali so we called Diwali is the “Festival of Lights”.

Preparations of Diwali Celebration

Before one week of Diwali people got engaged in the shopping of Diwali. This one week is called Fest season. Markets and Shopping Malla are full of discounts and big offers. Some people buy property in this period. People start their Diwali celebration just a few days before. They cleaned and decorate their homes and offices. Some people make renovation and decoration their homes and workplaces. Just before one day of the main day of Diwali, Dhanteras is celebrated by purchasing gold or silver ornaments.

How Diwali Is Celebrated 

On the day of Diwali People wear new clothes and decorate their home and offices with lamps, flowers and colourful rangoli designs and in the evening people worship goddess Lakshmi ji (Goddess of prosperity and money) and after Pooja people celebrate Diwali by distributing sweets and gift each other. On Diwali, temples are also decorated with flowers, light and lamps. 

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Dussehra festival is also known as Vijayadashami is a major Hindu festival which is celebrated after Navratri on the 10^th day of Ashwin month every year. This year Dussehra festival will be celebrated on 19^th October 2018. Vijayadashami is celebrated in different states of India for the different reasons, Especially in North & East region, Dussehra is celebrated for the victory of Lord Ram over demon Ravan. On this day lord, Ram killed demon Ravan for his bad deeds. Vijayadashami also marks as the end of Navratri &Durga puja.

Why Dussehra Is Celebrated?

According to Hindu mythologies, it is a saying that Ravan kidnapped Sitaji (Wife of Lord Ram) and took her to lanka where he forced Sitaji to become his wife, but Sitaji refused his proposal.After searching for a long time lord Ram came to know about the abduction of Sitaji by demon Ravan then lord Ram went to lanka and gave demon Ravan a chance to surrender but he refused lord Ram proposal and said lord Ram to do a war. After a long war fight on 10th-day lord, Ram killed demon Ravan and established the victory of good over bad.

How Dussehra Is Celebrated?

In north India before Dussehra festival on all nine days people celebrate Navratri and also enjoy the hosting of “Ramleela” theatre which depicts the whole journey of lord Ram from his birth to war with demon Ravan which shown in different parts of different cities in north region. On 10^th day just after Navratri Effigies of demon Ravan& his son Meghnath and his brother Kumbhakaran burnt with a show of fireworks by “Ramleela” organizers to celebrate the Dussehra festival called “Ravandahan”.

Dussehra is celebrated in different states of India from kullu to Dussara in Mysore at very large scale. After celebration of Dussehra festival people started a light preparation for the upcoming biggest India festival “Diwali” which is also known as festival of lights. Diwali festival is celebrated for the returning of lord Ram with Sita&Lakshmanji to his home after 14 days of killing of demon Ravan.

Lord Krishna's birthplace Mathura has begun to celebrate Janmashtami, people are coming here from country and abroad, this time Janmashtami is being celebrated on 3rd September. Bhagwat Bhawan, a place where God's birth has been given face as a golden building.

Here the walls are decorated like a palace of Gold New look. And decorated with lots of flowers. For Loard Krishna dress is made of silk jari and the gemstone. People will get entering to the temple from gate number 3 at Govind Nagar and gate number 1 is made for the exit from temple, it is prohibited to carry any kind of luggage in the birthplace.

The Lord Krishna Janmashtami Festival is being celebrated on September 3 in the ISKCON temple, where 1008 types of dishes and 108 types of Russian cakes will be used,  The devotees of Russia living in the temple will make 108 cakes each for 10 kgs,  5 devotees Has started work on making cake. Natural ingredients are being used like Milk powder with milk powder and condensed milk, fruit cake dry fruit cake,  yogurt cake,  Milk cake,  a variety of cakes being prepared and  to decorate the temple  6 colors Arcades fetched from Thailand. The purple,  white,  blue,  red and green arcades come from Malaysia and to decorate Krishna's court flowers will take from Kolkata.

In the Radheshyam temple of Mehrauli, the reading of Shrimad Bhagwat is being done daily for one week which will go on till Janmashtami, along with the entire Mehrauli Bazar has been illuminated with lights, Sanatan Dharm Sabha Samiti of Mehrauli is organizing Shobhayatra, Pahar Shasta Mahaloli via Mahaloli Main Market, Kalka Das Marg, to Yoga Maya Temple. 

It will include the figures of Lord Shiva, Lakshmi Ganesh, Saraswati along with Krishna, followed by the Kirtan program in the temple till the birth of Krishna.

Sri Kalakaji Temple located in Okhla is organizing a grand ceremony at Janatashtami in Sanatan Dharma Mandir and Chhatrapur Temple of Sri Sanatan Laxmi Narayan Mandir Green Park block of Lajpat Nagar.