Diwali: Light, Joy, and Care

When King Ram returned Ayodhya, after defeating Ravana, then people of Ayodhya celebrated Ram’s return by lighting clay lamps everywhere. Since then Deepavali is celebrated with clay lamps. We clean our homes before Deepavali. It is a festival of 5 days – Dhanteras Choti Diwali Badi Diwali Hindu New Year Bhaidooj • We wear new dresses on Diwali • We decorate our house with beautiful rangolis. • We buy crackers and burst them. • We worship Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha in the evening of Badi Diwali. We prepare special meal for Diwali. Lots of sweets are part of the meal We light firecrackers in the evening of Diwali. Bursting crackers make lot of noise pollution. So we should not light very noisy crackers. We should only light a few light crackers like sparklers (phuljhadi), chakri, anar. Noisy crackers harm the animals as they get scared. Fire crackers also create lot of air pollution in the form of smoke. So we should burst crackers to the minimum and help our environment.