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...Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is "one of the most important Indian festivals," said Sameer A. Sheth...
Last night, a group of about 50 Harvard students crowded into an Adams common room and celebrated Diwali, the Hindu new year...
This Thursday the group will be celebrating Diwali, literally translated as the Festival of Lights. The holiday commemorates the occasion of the Hindu New Year and has tremendous spiritual and cultural significance for many Hindus, Shah said...
...carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall. They recall with remarkable clarity the sights and sounds of the bazaars, of steamer trips through the river jungle of the Ganges Delta, of the slow cycle of the Indian year, from Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, back again to the Moslem festival of Muharram. In a muted way there was tragedy, too. The sisters tell how Nitai, their meek sweeper, killed his beautiful daughter in a jealous rage after she moved in with Guru, the Godden family's gatekeeper...