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When is Diwali 2024? What to know about Hindu festival of lights

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When is Diwali 2024? What to know about Hindu festival of lights

Gentle up these lamps and convey out the glint, it is time for Diwali.

Tens of millions of Hindus and South Asians around the globe are celebrating the Competition of Lights with events, dinners, meals and prayers beginning Thursday.

“Probably the most-celebrated Hindu festivals, Diwali, or Deepavali, commemorates the victory of excellent over evil in the course of the course of 5 days,” the Hindu American Basis says. “The phrase refers to rows of diyas — or clay lamps — that are put throughout houses and locations of worship.”

This is what you’ll want to find out about Diwali.

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A devotee prepares to place oil lamps at a religious ceremony during the Diwali festival at Ponnambalavaneshwaram Hindu temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 12,2023.

Diwali the ‘Competition of Lights’

The phrase Diwali is derived from the Sanskrit phrase Deepavali, which suggests “row of lights,” that devotees mild exterior their houses in the course of the competition to characterize the sunshine that guards in opposition to religious darkness and symbolize good over evil.

“The sunshine from these lamps symbolizes the illumination inside all of us, which might overcome ignorance, represented by darkness,” the Hindu American Basis says.

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