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About Diwali

        DIWALI

Back in Fiji we celebrated Diwali - the Festival Of Lights.  Diwali is celebrated in November.  It is an important church event in the Hindu Calender. 

The festival occurs on a no-moon night. It celebrates the birth of Lakshmi, goddess of Wealth.   There are plenty of fireworks and lights!  It is a time to celebrate with you, your family and friends.   

We eat a lot of homemade sweets.  My Hindu families decorate their house with lights and cook vegetarian food and sweets to offer to their Gods.  It usually takes one to two weeks to clean up their houses and compounds for this important feast table.  On the eve of Diwali they put food and sweets in front of their God and they pray  and sing and on the candles around the compound.  About 7pm they invite their Fijian families/friends to come and play with firecrackers and enjoy the sweets.

In Fiji we look forword to Diwali because we get to play freely with firecrackers and  enjoy the free expensive Indian sweets.