Happy Deepavali, Festival of Lights.

Happy Deepavali to All Who Celebrates!

Photos taken at IPC Mall, Mutiara Damansara.

Diwali, Deepavali or Dipavali is the Hindu festival of lights, which is celebrated every autumn in the northern hemisphere (spring in the southern hemisphere). One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolises the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance". During the celebration, temples, homes, shops and office buildings are brightly illuminated. The preparations, and rituals, for the festival typically last five days, with the climax occurring on the third day coinciding with the darkest night of the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika. In the Gregorian calendar, the festival generally falls between mid-October and mid-November.
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I come from a multiracial and multicultural country, who still maintain separate cultural identities and celebrations. We are blessed to be able to embrace each other's cultures and celebrate them together as a nation. Although I do not celebrate "Diwali" or in Malaysia, we are used to the name "Deepavali", our Indian friends and family in the whole country are celebrating the Deepavali today, 27th Oct 2019.

I can hear fireworks coming from everywhere around the place I'm staying! It is considered as Public Holiday, so Monday will be an off day for the working class, and for the school, our government has given the school 5 days of holidays, so it will be a very long weekend here in Malaysia.

Photos taken at Aeon Mall, Bukit Raja Klang.

During the time of the festival, all our Malls will be setting up decorations like the one I have shown you in the photos around the mall. This is the best of time to see some wonderful floor drawing rice art, which called The Kolam which means "Beauty", a type of Indian folk art using colourful rice, chalk powder and chalk. Yes, you read it right, those are not coloured sands, they are actual rice! And they are all done by free-hand!

As far as I know in the old days, it is believed that in the olden days the reasons The Kolam was drawn in front of the house are meant to welcome Goddess Lakshmi and guests into the house or even bring prosperity to homes. The patterns are a mixture of motifs, who believed it can prevent the evil spirit from entering the house. The motif all have their own meanings.

I'm no expert of all these so do correct me if I am wrong in any of the information. I just love looking at the arts, and I only managed to capture two design so far, but I do hope you enjoy them!

Thank you!

All photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.

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