CELEBRATING DIWALI WORLDWIDE AND AT U.N.
CELEBRATING DIWALI WORLDWIDE Sachi (Sabyasachi) Ghosh Dastidar Recently we were honored to be invited to many Diwali (or Deepabali) celebrations in many places in the United States. All of those were enjoyable, often with delicious Indian food and Indian song and dance. The latest one was celebration at the United Nations Headquarter in New York City, where we had to enter the building with a special pass. The celebration was organized by a diplomatic couple. The Diwali was celebrated as a symbolic struggle for nations “to remove darkness for heading to a brighter world,” that Diwali stands for, which was reminded by Trinidad ambassador to the U.N. He mentioned that in Trinidad it is celebrated as a religious holiday with everybody joining so much so that roads get blocked to traffic. Our journey to the U.N. became enjoyable when our Uber driver was a Tibetan-Indian American wh...