Deepavali

Deepavali or Diwali is the festival of lights. Deepavali is the most well celebrated festival in India. Most of them are well aware of the rituals done during this festival season. In some parts of India, Deepavali is celebrated for five days and in south India mostly, it is celebrated for three days. Lakshmi pooja is most auspicious ritual done on the Deepavali Amavasya and even before amavasya trayodasi is also considered as an auspicious day to worship Goddess Lakshmi. Dhanalakshmi pooja(Srilakshmi Kubera vratham) can be done on this day. These are some photos taken at home during diwali at our Sydney home. In India, bursting crackers is the most common phenomenon, but in overseas it is very hard or can say impossible to find the crackers, but we do get the usual sparklers or kakarapovottulu (telugu). We burn those and satisfy ourselves by reminding the nostalgic moments of burning crackers way back in India. But atleast kids born here, like my son can go through the expereince of burning those sparklers and feeling the festival and knowing about the festival and the rituals and customs of our tradition.