Indian Festivals

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Indian Festivals

• There are lots and lots of them
• This means lots of school holidays ?
• I will show you two of the main festivals,
• Deepawali and Holi
• Deepawali is celebrated in the Fall
• Holi is celebrated in the Spring
• Both were celebrated in ancient India
• to give thanks for the harvest
• These festivals are also connected with Hindu
  religion.
• There are lots of different stories linked to
  both festival

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Holi

• It is the festival to welcome spring
• It is on the day of the Full Moon
• On Holi day we play with colors.
• We prepare buckets and barrels of colored water,
  water balloons, and pichkari a special water
  gun for Holi.
• When friends and family come, we spray colors on
  them or dunk them in buckets of color.

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Holi in March 2006 at my cousins place in India
when I was visiting my grandparents
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After the Holi Colors we are ready for some
good Indian food and sweets
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Holi Celebration in the evening, you get dressed
up to welcome a lot of visitors to your house and
offer them sweets
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Deepawali or Diwali

• The Indian New Year festival is called Diwali.
• It is on the day of New Moon.
• All houses and streets are decorated with
  thousands of lights
• There are lots of fireworks in every house to
  celebrate it.
• Diwali is a religious festival which celebrates
  the victory of good over evil.
• People believe that the burning lights burn the
  evil.
• They also believe that the thousands of lamps
  show Lakshmi the goddess of wealth the way to
  their homes, so that she can visit them and give
  them lots of money.

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