Diwali: Hindu festival of lights celebrations – in pictures

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hindu devotees stitchery astatine a temple to connection prayers during Diwali, the festival of lights

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Ahmedabad, India

Traders execute rituals during Chopda Pujan, a wide supplication ceremonial dedicated to the worship of relationship books, for Diwali astatine the Swaminarayan Gurukul. On this time ledgers and caller relationship books are opened by the mercantile assemblage aft a peculiar supplication and worship earlier the idols of Lord Ganesha and the Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, to gain their blessings

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Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Hindu devotees execute rituals astatine a Hindu temple

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Hyderabad, India

Hindu devotees transportation banana leaves to decorate their homes during Diwali celebrations astatine a market

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Kathmandu, Nepal

Devotees worship a cow, regarded arsenic an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, during Tihar, the festival of lights that is celebrated astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Diwali

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Worshippers ascent the coloured stairs to commune astatine the Batu Caves temple during Diwali

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Kathmandu, Nepal

A Hindu devotee worships a cattle during Tihar

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Choti Chaupar, India

Artists instrumentality a selfie successful beforehand of the replica of the Hawa Mahal palace successful Jaipur

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hindu devotees commune astatine the Batu Caves temple during Diwali

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Ayodhya, India

People ticker a laser amusement connected the banks of the stream Sarayu during Deepotsav celebrations connected the eve of Diwali

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Bhopal, India

Indian women clasp sparklers successful Uttar Pradesh

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Selangor, Malaysia

A miss arrives astatine Batu Caves temple for Diwali celebrations. As Malaysia gradually eases its Covid restrictions, spiritual activities and prayers successful temples are allowed lone for fully-vaccinated individuals, with mask-wearing and societal distancing measures successful place

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Jodhpur, India

Indian women lighting lipid lamps successful Rajasthan

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Ayodhya, India

People airy lamps connected the banks of the stream Saryu. More than 900,000 earthen lamps were lit and kept burning for 45 minutes arsenic the northbound Indian metropolis retained its Guinness World Record for lighting lipid lamps arsenic portion of the Diwali celebration

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