and celebrates the year’s last rice-crop harvest, as per JSTOR. For Sikhs, meanwhile, Diwali celebrates sixth Guru, who ...

Kheel (puffed rice) and batasha (sugar candy ... often late into the night. On Diwali day, some people also listen to ...

During Diwali, families often make decorative patterns of diyas, lotus flowers and other designs out of coloured rice flour. This art form is known as rangoli. These creative decorations are often ...

Then Deeya sprinkles purple coloured sand all over the rice. Deeya: All finished. Gran: Looking really good. Narrator: The colourful patterns make a wonderful peacock for Diwali. The next morning ...