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Deepavali (Diwali) Fireworks

Firework clip available on YouTube. Song is ‘Colours’ by Hot Chip

They were shooting fireworks near the port, to celebrate Deepavali (Diwali) I think. The last fireworks I remember was the LTTE sending attack planes and anti-aircraft guns strafing the sky. So this is an improvement. Deepavali is a Hindu festival, but like anything else people end up celebrating together. My neighbors had lights all around their doors. Muslims were wishing people on Facebook.

Deepavali is basically a Tamil/Hindu festival here, but probably my favorite thing about diversity is that you get a lot of holidays. Sometimes food even. In Sri Lanka you get the full assortment of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim holidays celebrated, with cultural and communist and global ones thrown in. Not a bad deal really.

Posted on Sunday, October 18th, 2009 in Colombo, Religion, Sri Lanka, Video.

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St. Fallen

2009-10-18 02:02:05

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Whimsical

2009-10-18 13:40:10

Nice to see! Thanks for sharing. Hopefully now that the war is over there will be more people to people contact.

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Sean

2009-10-19 20:10:25

Were these in celebration of Diwali?

Saw them from the CRC on Saturday and assumed they were being set off from the Premedasa Stadium where the Army was celebrating their 60th Anniversary with an ‘Army Tattoo’…

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indi

2009-10-22 06:04:12

@Sean

That is entirely possible. There were fireworks again last night. I suppose this changes the meaning entirely.

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greene

2009-10-25 08:40:26

epic fail

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