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Happy Diwali Everyone
- navinag 4y agoDiwali is one of the largest festivals celebrated by Indians.
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- gigaflop 4y agoHow are people here celebrating?
- danans 4y agoWith a row of LED lights!
- kragen 4y agoHappy Diwali!
- Nomentatus 4y agoI'm not Indian et al or Hindu, but I loves my Diwali music, so I'll be hitting my favorite youtube videos of it and looking for more. That's not a full celebration, granted; but I'd be quite sad now if the only seasonal music I got to soak in every year was Xmas music, although I like that, too.
- qart 4y agoCan you share some examples of such music? I'm Indian and ex-Hindu. There isn't any music associated with this festival around my parts. I'm curious to know if people of other parts of India (or ethnic Indians in other parts of the world) have associated some kinds of music with Diwali. I suppose the language would help with figuring out which part of India it's from.
- Nomentatus 4y agoDarn the first couple saved URLs are for videos that have been removed. I did buy one Lakshmi song last year on itunes, my favorite Lakshmi mantra, and it's still available (with lovely CGI): Sri Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra 108 Times | Powerful Mantra For Wealth & Luxuries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWlHwkOlfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWlHwkOlfM Note that I am not in a position to make any kind religious endorsement of this or any other videos! Consider the source! I'll hit that a lot, but it looks like I'll mostly be tossing "Diwali" and "Lakshmi" into the Youtube search function, perhaps along with you. PS - I swear that video was available at higher quality last year. It would be interesting to know the history here, as you say, since there might be, to some degree, a response to Christmas involved amongst the diaspora? Such a response apparently underlies the current Jewish celebrations of Hanukkah.
- qart 4y agoThe combination of "Diwali" and "Lakshmi" makes sense! It's been so long since I attended a Lakshmi worship ritual that I've forgotten what gets chanted. The traditional music is monophonic. The track you linked to definitely a modern re-interpretation. Maybe people are coming up with some seasonal music all around me, and I'm just unaware. The way that Coca Cola re-invented Christmas for Americans, maybe a handful of people are re-inventing Diwali celebrations all around me! To me, all these festivals mean I get to binge on sweets.
- Nomentatus 4y agoLast year there were Bollywood song compilations "for Diwali" around, that were excellent, as well. Since I don't get the words, I wouldn't have known that they weren't (or were) singing about Diwali themes.
- screye 4y agoHey genuine question : what does being ex-hindu mean to you ? I'm an Indian Atheist myself, but I never found my move away from Hinduism to be difficult or grating. My parents & community just sort of accepted it and moved on. If I had to be pedantic, I could call myself a Nastik/Charvak Hindu and I would technically be an 'Atheist Hindu'. I did have a "I refuse to do a namaskar or enter temples" Dawkinian emo-phase, but at some point I realized I was fighting against a bogeyman that didn't exist. My current opinion on the matter, is that Abrahmic conceptions of Atheism do not work in a religion that does not have blasphemy or any single source of truth. So, while a term such as ex-muslim/atheist usually messages a certain ostracization or scientism, being an ex-hindu doesn't immeditely mean anything to me. To use a favorite HN comment of mine : "If it's hard to tell the difference, it'll be hard to sell the difference".....and I can't tell the difference between a Hindu and an ex-Hindu. (feel free to ignore it. My comment does seem a little out of place in a festival celebration thread. But, I got curious)
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- kodah 4y agoHappy Diwali
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- jmclnx 4y agoI kind of wonder the same. Try in in December and see what happens :)
- ljf 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877571 (500+ upvotes and 200ish comments, but from Xmas '19) - happy Xmas posts have been very popular in the past, I don't hang around here as much any more to note if other religious festivals are covered much.
- mechanical_bear 4y agoWhat is “Xmas”?
- qorrect 4y agoAthiest Christmas
- acuozzo 4y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Xmas#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Xmas#Etymology
- MiguelX413 4y agoChristmas, but with Χρῑστός (Khrīstós) abbreviated to Χ. One can read even more about its history here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Xmas#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Xmas#Etymology
- mechanical_bear 4y agoInteresting to know that tidbit. Seems like maybe not the best way to call it though, as per your link: “ as of late 20th century considered disrespectful by some Christians, due to the absence of the word Christ.”
- norwalkbear 4y agoHappy Diwali
- ammut 4y agoHappy Diwali!
- tinktank 4y agoHappy Diwali to you.
- shadkhan 4y ago
- aliljet 4y agoHappy Diwali! Being in the bay area, I'm always curious why Diwali doesn't invite more burning-man-style light shows! To be fair to my neighbors, and in lieu of the wild hn-front-page-light-show, here's lighting a small diya to celebrate!
- ssiddharth 4y agoEtymologically, Deepavali is a Sanskrit word meaning row of lamps (Deepa means lamp). Diwali is a colloquial form used in Northern states of India, as the word in their language for a lamp is Diva/Diwa. Ultimately, there’s no difference as every Indian state has its own language so it’s all nitpicking. Because I’m a bum, I like to point out that South Indian (where I’m from) and East Indian states use the etymologically correct name, Deepavali.
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- fellellor 4y agoHappy Deepawali!