While October is packed with all sorts of events - Halloween, Oktoberfest, the clocks changing - for the country’s Hindu population, there’s one that’s circled in red in the diary: Diwali. The Hindu ...

Diwali, the festival of light, is a special time where we celebrate prosperity and unity. It is also your chance to revitalise your living areas and set the mood for warmth and sophistication. One of ...

Move over traditional diyas—this Diwali, it’s all about candles that look good enough to eat! From laddoo-shaped candles to ones resembling rasmalai, imarti, and gulab jamun, these dessert-inspired ...

Diwali is the five-day festival of lights, symbolizing the victory of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance and spiritual ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Sunday with a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country.

Hosting can be a lot, especially when part of the game is having the soirée you put together look effortless. In this series, veteran party-throwers tell us how they pull off their highly specific, ...

Beginning on Thursday, more than a billion people around the world will began the annual celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights that many consider to be the start of the new year.

Diwali wasn’t a big part of Radha Patel’s childhood growing up in Maryland. Her parents, though Hindu, weren’t particularly observant, and while the family attended Diwali celebrations and pujas ...

Diwali, the vibrant, Indian multi-day festival commenced yesterday according to the Hindu lunar calendar (it is also celebrated by Sikh and Jain communities with slightly different practices). For ...