About the Indian Festival Deepawali

During every season and holiday there are festivals and fairs held in India. Deepawali is one such festival, which has a symbolic as well as a national and recreationall value because it symbolizes the rainy season being at its wane. The slushy drains and lanes are drying up. The humidity and heat of the weather is gradually subsiding and the temperate shiver in the cool breeze begins to given us an indication of the advent of winter. After the blistering heat of the summers--during April, May and June--July marks the cold and rainy season.

The parched earth gets the much-awaited downpour beginnng with flooding of rivers and the rivulets making the grass grow green. The trees and bushes wear a swashed look, which gradually subsides and ushers in the other season - the winter - in the month of October and November. In addition, it is only so welcome when this refreshing cool shivers of Deepawali- the festival that comes fifteen days after the Vijay Dashimi - the day of the conquest of Ravan- the Demon king by Ram. Hence, it has got associated with the celebration of this victory of the good over the evil.

Among all the Indian festival Deepawali or diwali, as it is commonly called is a festival of great festivity. Prior to that event of the day of this festival house are cleaned, every nook and corner of the house is supposed to be got rid of all the dust and dirt; the wall are whitewash at or painted and floors are washed and cleaned.

Associated an all this is with the celebration of the victory of Ram Ravan and Ram arrival after it to ayodhaya, the ritual, and the revelry has its social and hygienic value.

This festival is celebrated by lighting lamps in a row over the housetops, over all the wall tops and parapets of the house. This festival got associated with children enjoying the most with of illumination and fun.

This is a festival when Hindus worship lord Ganesh- the God of commonweal and Goddess Lakshmi - the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. India has been an agricultural country where crops have even been the sourve of wealth and prosperity and of common well. Thus, this worship of Lord Ganesh and Godness Lakshmi has all so it is very symbolic significance.

So, Deepawali- the "awali"-or row of "deep" - the lamp is a great festival ; one of the most festive, one so full of light and glow and at the same time so full of symbolism and so good for the social well being of the people at large.