Clad in traditional wear, flashing a 400 W smile and clutching tiny
colourful pouches of diyas and sweets, entered students, running up to the
teacher just to show her how good and different they looked on that one day.
It was thrilling to celebrate Diwali with our 7-year-old students.
Their energy and happiness rubs down upon you. It felt super to receive their
greetings and hugs full of cheer. They
couldn’t wait to share their sweets or decorate the earthen diyas that they had
carried along.
Students eagerly decorated the class entrance with paper lanterns and
some decorative diyas that they carried for this purpose. They then began the
painting/ decoration of diyas that they were so engrossed in that they just did
not want to stop. And so were born the clay dough diyas much to the pride of
their beaming creators. Stories of Diwali did the rounds.
While some found Diwali to be a
festival of endless pleasing of the gods, some found it to be the soulful
reason and season to burst crackers. Yet, there are a handful who shared the
true meaning of deepawali. In the words of children, ‘Diwali is a festival
where we rid ourselves of bad things inside ourselves and around us.
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