Diwali is essentially the biggest Hindu holiday of the year celebrating light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance. Cities and towns decorate their streets, and families decorate their homes with a variety of light displays. Shops have sales and school have Diwali celebration events. (If you put religion aside, secularly it's on par with Christmas in the US.)
My school also held a Diwali event with food, hand painting, NGO shops, and students performances by our choir, orchestra, and even a teacher flash mob. In addition this year, we brought a drama performance by students from the Dharavi slum who'd been working with one of our seniors as part of his IB senior project.
The high school theatre teacher and myself have been coordinating with the NGO Reality Gives and going every Sunday to their community center to work with the kids. They are enthusiastic, energetic, mischievous, delightful, inquisitive, silly, quick to laugh, and lovely - as all children should be.
They performed on stage for hundreds of parents and students at our school with confidence and afterwards we celebrated with lunch and laughter. So very proud of them and looking forward to continuing making theatre with them.
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