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Diwali is the most significant Hindu festival celebrated all over the India in the autumn 
season every year. The spiritual significance of this festival indicates the victory of light 
over darkness. It is a five days long festival celebrated by the people with huge preparations 
and rituals. It falls every year in the month of October or November. Many days ago of the 
festival, people start cleaning, renovating and decorating their homes and offices. They 
purchase new dresses, decorative things like diyas, lamps, candles, puja materials, statue 
of God and Goddess and eating things especially for Diwali. 
People do worship of God Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi for getting wealth and prosperity 
in their life. They perform puja on main Diwali with lots of rituals. After puja, they get 
involved in the fireworks activities and then distribute gifts to each other among neighbors, 
family members, friends, offices, etc. People celebrate Dhanteras on first day, Naraka 
Chaturdasi on second day, Diwali on third day, Diwali Padva on fourth day, and Bhai Dooj 
on fifth day of the festival. It becomes official holiday in many countries on the day of 
festival. 
Celebration of Diwali with Family without Crackers 
Diwali is my favorite festival of the year and I celebrate it with lots of enthusiasm with my 
family members and friends. Diwali is called as the festival of lights because we celebrate it 
by lighting lots of diyas and candles. It is a traditional and cultural festival celebrated by 
each and every Hindu person all over India and abroad. People decorate their houses with 
lots of candles and small clay oil lamps indicating the victory of good over evil. Family 
members spend their most of the day time in preparing house (cleaning, decorating, etc) to 
welcome the festival with grand evening party. Neighbors, family members, and friends gets 
collected in the evening party and enjoy the party with lots of delicious Indian dishes, 
dance, music, etc all through the night. Houses look very attractive in white wash, candle 
lights and rangolis. High pitch music and fireworks makes the celebration more interesting. 
People go to their home by taking off from their job, offices and other works; students also 
book their train around three months ago to easily go to their home on Diwali festival 
because everyone wants to celebrate this festival with their family members in the home 
town. People generally enjoy the festival by feasting, bursting crackers and enjoying the 
dance with family and friends. However, it is prohibited by the doctors to got outside and 
enjoy firecrackers especially people suffering from lung or heart diseases, hypertension, 
diabetes, etc. Such people have to knock the doctor‟s door because of consuming highly 
saturated food and sweets in high amount and lack of exercises and pollution caused by 
crackers in these days. 
Significance of Diwali 
Diwali festival is celebrated by the people with great revelry and lots of fun and frolic 
activities. It becomes the happiest holiday for Indian people in the year and celebrated with 
significant preparations. It is the festival of high significance for Indian people during which 
people clean their homes, decorate, do shopping, buy new things including gifts, kitchen 
utensils, appliances, cars, golden jewelry, etc and perform so many rituals. There are many 
ancient stories, legends, and myths about celebrating this festival. Girls and women of the 

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home do shopping and make rangolis in creative patterns on the floors near to the doors 
and walkways of home. There are little variations in the celebration of this festival 
according to the regional practices and rituals. 
The spiritual significance of this festival symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and 
victory of good over evil. It is celebrated to honor the Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi and God 
of wisdom, Ganesha. Its religious significance varies according to the region all through the 
country. Somewhere, it is celebrated to honor the returning of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana 
to their home after long exile period of 14 years (according to Hindu epic Ramayana). Some 
people celebrate it to remember the return of Pandavas to their kingdom after 12 years of 
Vanvas and one year of agyatavas (according to Hindu epic Mahabharata). It is also 
believed that it was started celebrating when Goddess Lakshmi was born after churning the 
ocean by the gods and demons. Diwali celebration also indicates the start of a new Hindu 
year in the west and some northern parts of India. It is celebrated by the people of Sikh 
religion to mark the Bandi Chhor Divas by lighting up the Golden Temple. It is celebrated 
by the people of Jain religion to mark the Nirvana attained by the Mahavira. 
Pollution on Diwali 
Together with the Diwali celebration, there is indirect increase in the environmental 
pollution all over the world because of the bursting of various types of firecrackers during 
this festival. Such firecrackers are very dangerous as they release toxic pollutants like 
sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and so many etc which gets 
intermingled into the air and causes variety of ailments like asthma, bronchitis, 
hypertension, etc. It affects the people of all age group however those people who already 
suffer any type of ailment. Together with the human beings, it also affects the lives of 
animals, birds and other living beings due to air and noise pollution. 
However, now-a-days, there is a campaign run by the government to celebrate pollution 
free Diwali all over the country. Schools and various organizations also organizes various 
demonstrations prior to the celebration to educate and aware students for pollution-free 
festival. Environment and pollution departments also do many efforts by publishing 
pollution free news in the various newspapers to aware people and curb noise and air 
pollution because of firecrackers. Bursting sound-emitting firecrackers has been banned by 
the Supreme Court especially during 10pm to 6am. 
Air and water pollution is also caused by the decay of remnants of fireworks and deluge of 
garbage like empty bottles, papers used to light off rockets, gift wrappers, dried flowers, etc 
at the nook and corners of the city. We all should practice celebrating the pollution free 
Diwali every year in order to save and enjoy the natural beauty of environment forever. 
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