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Diwali is a fest of savings and pride to me

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Diwali is one festival that brings the utmost joy to the people of India because even if we want to stay away from it, the sound of crackers will definitely reach our ears and create a sense of celebration mood automatically. It gives pleasure to people celebrating it and also to those who are witnessing these celebrations. In the North, it is celebrated in the memory of the return of Lord Ram and Sita to Ayodhya after winning over Raavan, in the south it is celebrated to mark the victory of Lord Krishna and Sathya Bama over Narakasura, thus depicting a moral of victory of good over the bad. Source: Medium My father, as I registered in earlier articles, is an ardent Periyar follower, so he clings to the point that Narakasura is a Dravidian who was killed by Lord Krishna who is supposed to be an Aryan. With this funny sarcasm, he always marks Diwali as a ‘Black day’ to the Dravida people. But already I have registered that he was not a blind pseudo-Periyarist, so keeping away his sarca