The fun starts one month prior to Diwali
day itself. The work starts by cleaning the house, rearranging the furniture and
painting the whole house. It seems like we are creating a new energy in our
home to welcome Diwali. On Diwali Lakshmi puja is the main attraction for the
elderly people whereas children lookout for the best crackers. I used to start
crying for crackers two weeks prior to Diwali. My younger cousin brother and I
used to burn the crackers together. My aunt, uncle and brother with my
whole family used to have a Diwali day spent with each other. My uncle used to
be my example for buying crackers, he used to bring the latest crackers and I
used to be filled up with happiness just looking at them. This particular
Diwali that I have in my mind was extra special because my aunt, uncle and
cousin sisters had also joined us at our house. They had come from U.S.A and
over there my sisters did not have any experience of burning crackers. So my
aunt, brother and I had decided to show them what they had missed out on. We
had gone through with the exchange of gifts and sweets in the morning and had a
nice lunch. My brother and I started to bring the crackers together, in front
of our house. My aunt used to accompany us in this auspicious work. Then we
brought our two little sisters outside in the evening. We strolled with
them in and around our colony to show them all the decorations that
adorned each house because of Diwali. They were more than happy with that alone.
But we told them that there is a bigger surprise. So when we reached home, we
got to work instantly. We brought the candles and matchbox outside.
We made them stand at a distance and watch the show first. The
sparklers were the first in line, we moved them round and round to make
temporary lightning drawings in the air.
Now we called our spectators to burn crackers. Eager but
apprehensive they picked up the sparklers and lit them. They were mesmerized.
We let them burn an anar or two with their sparklers and they were beyond happy
by that time. Finally the time for the main crackers came up. The rocket and
the 3 feet long sparkler were the one for that season. When the 3 feet long
sparkler was lit, each and everyone in our house came out to look at the
beautiful sight. The rocket was taken to the terrace. A glass bottle was
arranged and then began the fun. We put the rocket inside the glass bottle and
with the sparkler we burned the wick and saw the rocket soaring in the sky. The
firework was amazing and as the five rockets were finished blazing in the sky
we looked for more. But they were finished and we weren’t really contended.
That is when our uncle came from behind us and surprized us by producing one
more rocket. This particular rocket was the best. From one rocket we saw
fireworks for fifteen times.
My cousins and I were uber happy by the end of our
celebration. My sisters got to know what was #GharWaliDiwali all about and the
highlight in the evening just made them celebrate it back in U.S.A as well from
then on.
Next came out the charkhari(a round
firecracker which when burnt revolves at a high speed making a circle of light around
it), some were not lighting at first and the ones which lighted in first go
surprised us. The ones which got lighted more of startling us made us the
laughing stock for our sisters.
The next were anar bomb(cone shaped firecrackers
which when lighted from the tip produce light high above itself), which were
lighted by our ever faithful sparklers. The light produced from each anar was
different. Green, blue, orange and yellow lights coming from them caught us in
the moment.
To celebrate GharWaliDiwali visit this site
https://www.gharwalidiwali.com/
GharWaliDiwali with Pepsi and Kurkure :)
GharWaliDiwali with Pepsi and Kurkure :)
1 comment:
Aww, this is such a sweet post. No holiday is good without family and I am glad yours was great :-)
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