For people of Indian descent living in India and across the diaspora, Diwali is one of the most widely celebrated festivals, according to The Hindu American Foundation. The festival, whose name ...

Diwali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. In a multicultural and diverse country like India, everyone has their own way of celebrating this festival. Even though their belief ...

There was once a prince called Rama and his wife Sita, there was also a wicked King Ravanna who was a great and powerful demon, he had ten heads and twenty arms and took Sita away from Rama where ...

The history behind the festival Guru Arjun ... The Sikh tradition says Guru Gobind was released on Diwali and this important event came to be celebrated as Bandi Chhor Diwas.

Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India - and for Hindus in particular. It is celebrated across faiths by more than a billion people in the world’s most populous nation and ...

Nov. 12, over one billion individuals will be celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights, according to AP news. Although the origin stories of Diwali vary across religions, the overarching theme is ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is coming back home. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have marked over nine months aboard the International Space Station. Despite their prolonged stay in space, the ...

And here at a Diwali celebration in Fiji’s capital, it’s a message that resonates. This is Sharda Nand, the President of the Fiji Hindu Society. “During Diwali all our friends and family ...