Cultural festivals empower ethnic, religious harmony: President Source:Ceylontoday Deepavali festival is a cultural celebration where the devotees extend wishes of enlightenment and share greetings with love and compassion. “In my view, cultural festivals of this nature provide great opportunity to build communal reconciliation and mutual understanding among the people and empower ethnic and religious harmony”, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. ...
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Deepavali Celebration has gone Global !!! – By Vasu Vasudevan Deepavali (or Diwali) is one of the most popular festivals celebrated mostly by Hindus. Deepavali falls in Autumn on the new moon day in the Tamil month of Aippasi. This is a very colourful festival for the millions of people of Indian origin living all over the world as it unites people of different regions and ethnicity to pass the message of peace. There are many legends underlying the reason for the celebration and they all have one powerful message which is the destruction of Evil by Good. One such legend recounts the tale of Naragasuran, the demon who was killed by Lord Krishna. When Naragasuran was dying, he prayed to Lord that people need to celebrate the day to signify the triumph of Good over Evil. In every house, Deepavali or the festival of lights as it ...
