Happy Diwali!!

The facades have been garnished with an éclat combination of flamboyant lights, scintillating fireworks are igniting the night sky, and refulgent candles, pradips have lighted up the buildings—yes, it’s Diwali, the festival of lights. It comes once a year, but it is a year in a day. Very gaily dressed in gaudy attire, people rush out from their houses and run life to the lease to indulge in the festival of lights with oomph and panache. Cleaving through the distinctions of caste, creed and faith, the world becomes united under the title of this day. The hearts throb with rapture and the pandal-hopping heads crane out to catch a glimpse of the Goddess Kali. The indefatigable legs too, with their seeming tenacity, tread through hundreds of souls, elbowing out each other or someone saying, “Dada ektu dekhi, side”. Yes, this is the expression of that latent passion that builds up after a long wait of one year.