
Diwali Traditions and Date
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The author should have given religious aspect too else it becomes irrelevant. Religious beliefs drive festivals in all religions.
Thank you for a well written, factual article on Diwali. Growing up I called Diwali Deepavali. It was a time to look forward to fireworks, sweets and families getting together.
It is a time to exchange gifts, meet and greet old and new friends and family and celebrate another year of success and wish everyone for a future year of prosperity, peace, penance, perseverance and patience.
Happy Diwali!
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We recently moved to an area with a dense Indian population and we learned about Diwali for the first time. We and our kids love it. It’s provided a great teaching opportunity for our kids. The neighborhoods are so beautifully decorated and the concept and idea behind Diwali is so uplifting and transcends culture.
Inability to mention religious context shows your bias and fear of backlash. Would you write an article on Christmas without any mention of its religious context? A student doing that in high school would probably fail.
I think this is a very well written article, taking out the religious biases and indoctrinations.
Anyone, like millions across the world already have, will seek out the religious aspects if they so choose.
We have to many National holidays religious or otherwise In the next 100 yrs people will probably be taking more time off for holidays than actually working I favor allowing the Diwali custom to be recognized but not make it a National holiday
Soon there won't be any reason to attend school. It will be just one big holiday. I get that we want to be sensitive to everyone's culture but at some point, the kids need to be in class. Even these optional holidays force a teacher not to teach anything because they don't want someone to miss something so they teach nothing that day. It may come to a point where only statutory holidays are allowed or we make up time for these other days off at the end of the school year, but somehow kids need the time in class to learn. That's the point of going to school. Social studies aren't the entire curriculum, reading, writing, and arithmetic are.
School is still in session during the Diwali celebration. If a family chooses to keep their children home to participate and celebrate in their cultural or religious holiday, that is their choice. When my children were little they did not attend school on Good Friday (Easter) and it was important to our family that they participate in our religious and cultural traditions. We were not worried or fretting that they were missing schoolwork and were certainly not adversely affected academically.
Of course the two longest “religious” holidays are Easter and Xmas, I guess you would be happy for those to be just single day school breaks or not at all.
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