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Firecrackers went off, sparks flew, and earthen lamps glowed as the Hindu community in Pakistan celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights, on Sunday.
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community → go → Sunday
Diwali is celebrated on the new-moon night, known as Amavas during the Hindu month of Kartika.
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Diwali → celebrate → Kartika
Since the sky is dark at the time, the fireworks triumph over the darkness.
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fireworks → triumph → darkness
The festival also serves as a remembrance of other triumphs such as of good over evil, of knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair.
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festival → serve → despair
According to Hindu scriptures, Rama and his wife Sita, along with younger brother Lakshmana, took refuge in the forest after their kingdom was taken from them.
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kingdom → accord → them
Later, Ravana, a demon king from Sri Lanka, abducted Sita and took her to his kingdom.
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Ravana → abduct → kingdom
Rama and Lakshmana, with the help of Hanuman, raise an army that builds a bridge from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka to reach Ravana’s kingdom and rescue Sita.
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that → raise → Sita
They return triumphant after killing Ravana and are welcomed home by their people who lit clay lamps along their path.
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who → return → path
While commemorating the happy occasion, the Hindu community also decorates their home entrances, especially the floor there with pretty colourful designs known as rangoli.
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community → commemorate → rangoli
This ritual is associated with Goddess Lakshmi, the deity of wealth and prosperity, who is believed to visit clean and brightly lit homes on the day.
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who → associate → day
Muslims also join festivities to promote interfaith harmony, pluralism
So even though the main focus remains on lighting up the skies and one’s surroundings, there are also many preparations underway in the days leading up to Diwali.
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focus → join → Diwali
These include house cleaning and decorating, preparing sweetmeats, putting together new outfits and buying jewellery and gifts.
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These → include → jewellery
These preparations are also important but should not tire you so much that you are unable to enjoy the festival itself.
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you → tire → festival
Therefore, it is always better to prepare in advance.
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it → prepare → advance
This year, there were many Diwali markets all over Karachi to help people prepare for the festival in advance.
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people → be → advance
There was the biggest-ever Diwali Bazar at the Faizy Rameen Auditorium along with the one at the ground behind the Shri Swami Narayan Temple, at the Shri Ratneshwar Mahadev Temple in Clifton and also at the Port Grand where entrance was free for the Hindu community.
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entrance → be → community
As a good show of harmony and pluralism, many Muslims also enjoyed the festival of lights with their Hindu friends by lighting diyas and sharing sweets.
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Muslims → enjoy → sweets
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