Diwali

Diwali is the festival of lights. Diwali is when Indian’s play around with fireworks, and they also make designs with this powdery kind of material. On Diwali the girls and women wear saris and half saris. The men wear pants and shirts. We eat sweets on Diwali. The types of sweets that we eat (that are also my favorite kinds of sweets) are gulab jamun, Jalebi,, rava laddu, kaju barfi and etc. The story behind Diwali is based on a book called Ramayana. It’s about a prince named Rama who lived in Ayodhya. Rama gets sent to the forest for fourteen years with his brother Lakshmana and his wife Sita. They stay in the forest and then one day Sita got kidnapped by this bad, cruel king named Ravana. Ravana ruled an Island kingdom named Lanka. Rama fought Ravana and saved Sita. Then Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana went back to Ayodhya and the people of Ayodhya celebrated the day Rama came back to  the kingdom with fireworks and sweets. That day is now known as Deepavali and it is also called as Diwali.