{"id":2266,"date":"2013-10-19T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2019-01-21T19:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T19:25:56","slug":"what-indian-americans-like-about-diwali-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/what-indian-americans-like-about-diwali-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"What Indian Americans Miss during Diwali Celebration in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A festival is not merely a festival. It comes with time for reunion, a relief from the monotony of work, a zing to childhood memories, the temptation of sweets, and an emotional touch. It is much true about Diwali, the festival of lights. Diwali is spectacularly celebrated in India, and the other parts of the world where Indians have made their homes away from home. <strong>IndianEagle<\/strong> got in touch with some of the NRI customers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/usa\/\">USA<\/a> and Canada to know what they like most about the Diwali festival. Here is what they shared with us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/category\/festivals\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2269\" title=\"Diwali blog: What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/beautiful-diwali-diyas-designs.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Best diwali diya designs, diwali in USA, cheap flights to India\" width=\"547\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we think of Diwali, <em>diyas<\/em> (earthen lamps) with little flames flash on the mind. It is the beautifully designed lamps that connect not only Indians but also Indian Americans with Diwali celebration. The ignited <em>diyas<\/em> stand for knowledge, prosperity, peace and happiness that we are blessed with by Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesh on this festival. Mr. Basant Mehta, an IT consultant in Indianapolis, belongs to Uttar Pradesh in India. He shares, <strong>\u201cOur village was not developed when I was a child. I used to go with my mother and buy <em>diyas<\/em> at a local <em>haat<\/em>. With lit <em>diyas<\/em> everywhere in the evening, the village looked like a bride.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/category\/festivals\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2272\" title=\"What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/best-diwali-rangoli-designs.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"best diwali rangoli designs, diwali celebration in USA, \" width=\"547\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is <em>rangoli<\/em> that connects many Indian American women with Diwali <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/festivals-of-india\/\">festival<\/a>. This is the only festival when they get time to decorate the floor in the interior of their houses with colors. <em>Rangoli<\/em>\u00a0is what they like most about Diwali because it refreshes their memory of the childhood days and the neighboring friends with whom they would make a collage of colors on the floor. In Mrs. Sudha Pande\u2019s words, <strong>the colors of\u00a0<em>rangoli<\/em> are reminiscent of the colorful days of my childhood\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"blog.indianeagle.com\/category\/flavors\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2274\" title=\"What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/festival-sweets-for-diwali.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"diwali sweet recipes, best diwali sweets, news for NRIs\" width=\"547\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fair percentage of NRIs in the US and Canada is conscious of health and fitness. Unlike Indians having sweet tooth for sweets, the Indian Americans avoid sweetening of their mouths on most of the festive occasions. But, Diwali is the only time when they cannot help giving in to the temptation of sweets. <em>Laddoo, katli, rasmalai<\/em>, etc. are the sweets which they find irresistible about Diwali celebration. Moreover, <strong>they miss the taste of sweets made by their grandmothers in India, on this occasion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2276\" title=\"Diwali blog: What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/rajashtani-bandarwal-designs.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"rajasthani bandarwal designs, best bandarwal designs, news for NRIs\" width=\"547\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another thing that they relate to their fondness of Diwali celebration is <em>bandarwal<\/em>, a hanging showpiece to decorate the main entrance and doorways. <strong>This cultural part of the celebration reminds NRIs of being Indian to the core.<\/strong> The Indian Americans who belong to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/gujarat\/\">Gujarat<\/a> and Rajasthan find it appealing to decorate the entrance of their houses with beautiful <em>bandarwal<\/em> which steal the show with their American neighbors and friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2278\" title=\"Diwali blog: What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/diwali-fireworks-phataka.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"list of diwali fireworks, diwali phataka, diwali blogs\" width=\"547\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enjoying Diwali over firecrackers to disturb old uncles and aunties in the neighborhood during their childhood in India is a pleasing memory that they cherish on the Diwali evening in America every year. Mr. Vikash Gupta from Minneapolis shares, <strong>\u201cI used to fight with my sister over her share of the firecrackers that our dad brought for us every Diwali, in childhood. She is a professor in Delhi. I miss her when I see my kids get into a tiff over firecrackers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/best-diwali-greetigs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2280\" title=\"Diwali blog: What Indian Americans like about Diwali festival \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/best-diwali-greetigs.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"best diwali greetings, diwali celebration in america, diwali blogs\" width=\"547\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exchange of hearty greetings with friends and relatives in India is what most NRIs find interesting about Diwali celebration. The busy work schedule on weekdays and social involvements on weekends leave them with very little time to get in touch with their near ones in India. However, they don\u2019t miss out on greeting their friends, siblings and relatives over phone or via email on the occasion of Diwali. Mr. Avinash Shome says, <strong>\u201cI get a hearty email ready in the draft and schedule its delivery to my close buddies on the Diwali evening.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hope, you relate yourself to these feelings and emotions about Diwali celebration at home away from home. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\">IndianEagle.com<\/a> connects you with your Indian self by offering you the lowest airfare to India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A festival is not merely a festival. It comes with time for reunion, a relief from the monotony of work, a zing to childhood memories, the temptation of sweets, and an emotional touch. 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