As the Hindustan Times points out, the festival dates are set by the Hindu lunar calendar to fall on the darkest night of the year. Each day marks a different part of the religion, but Day 3 (today, ...

Timothy ‘Tripp’ Slavish and Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Barger show off the Diwali crafts they made on Wednesday morning in their second grade classroom at Wyoming Seminary Lower School, after three older ...

In his early teenage years, Pariket Raval wondered why he celebrated Diwali, the Hindu holiday that his family marked with festivities. “I questioned why I was doing what I did,” recalled Raval, 17, a ...

Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India — and for Hindus in particular. It is celebrated across faiths by more than a billion people in the world’s most populous nation and the ...

Around one billion people worldwide and across the U.S. will celebrate Diwali this week. Diwali, also known as Deepavali and the Hindu “Festival of Lights,” is one of India's most widely celebrated ...

Diwali is a major holiday celebrated by many South Asian religious communities that will soon observe and participate in its festivities. What is Diwali? When is Diwali? Here’s what to know. According ...

Diwali is a major holiday celebrated by many South Asian religious communities. Its observance will begin this weekend and will last for five days. Diwali, the third night of the celebration, falls on ...