Diwali

Roughly from Akshaya Tritiya , the spring festival that falls in April or May, until a little after Diwali in the autumn, the temples are open and the deities receive pilgrims in their mountain seats.

…inted annually, still sold at temple gates, still the arbiter of when Diwali falls, and because regional almanacs compute differently, it is why the same festival lands on different days in different states.

Her worship runs through the year and peaks at Diwali, the festival of lights, which is above all her night.

Rama returns at last to Ayodhya, and the city lights itself with lamps to welcome the king home, the homecoming the tradition still keeps as Diwali.

Diwali is a public holiday in Nepal and Sri Lanka, in Mauritius and Fiji, in Trinidad and Tobago, which recognised it more than half a century ago, in Guyana and Suriname, in Singapore and Malaysia, and it has …

A reader who looks up the date of Diwali for two consecutive years notices something strange.

The light of Diwali , in the autumn to come, answers the same darkness that Shivaratri sits inside without flinching.

Diwali itself falls on the amavasya of Kartika , the darkest night answered with the most lamps.