– Rattan Singh Gill

From my childhood, our family has been celebrating the Festival of Diwali with much fanfare and we always waited eagerly for this gala day without knowing much about its significance. Over time, I discovered many features attributed to Diwali which, indeed, qualify it as our cultural and national national festival for sharing happiness.

The rituals and varied versions of Hindu festivals have often been the target of ridicule for some motivated historians, atheists and of course, other religionists. But those precisely are the sustaining forces of Hinduism and have acted as solid defences against other faiths and fake ideologies. Hindu rituals are rooted in reality and science though some of them may be impracticable in the current milieu or might have undergone erosio

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