Christmas and Diwali

Christmas
There's a wide variation in Christmas traditions between families. And, of course, many Americans are Muslim or Jewish, or belong to other groups like Jehovah's Witnesses that don't celebrate Christmas. In the US Christmas is often more a secular holiday than a religious one, which is discouraging to many Christians.
A traditional Christmas celebration would include a Christmas tree with lights and ornaments, and often other decorations such as a wreath or outdoor lights. Christmas is the major retail holiday, and many families have large numbers of brightly wrapped gifts under the tree. On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus visits after the small children are in bed, leaving (often unwrapped) gifts for them. Often he will fill stockings hung by the fireplace with candy and toys. (For a book about Santa, see The Night Before Christmas.)Usually there's a large family dinner on Christmas Day with Turkey or Ham as the main course. Christians may attend a church service late on Christmas Eve, or on Christmas Day. (Many will attend church only twice a year, Christmas and Easter.)Hospitality is important to many during the Christmas season and there will be parties through New Year's Day.
America is multi-cultural, with members of many ethnic groups celebrating in their own unique ways. So, for example, a family of Mexican-American heritage will prepare and serve tamales on Christmas Eve. A family of Polish extraction will serve traditional pirogues and klatches. All of these traditions and many more qualify as a 'real' American Christmas.

Diwali
Whenever we talk about an environment full of light, the first name that comes in every mind is diwali. This is basically the festival of lights that is celebrated on a no moon night to make the dark night shine. This festival of lights is celebrated on the no moon day of Ashwin. This festival is celebrated through out India, therefore; you can see many colors of it as every region celebrates it in a special way. In some places, the celebration of this auspicious day starts from durga pooja and keeps on going until bhaiya dooj and goverdhan pooja.
The word deepawali is the combination of two different terms- deepa and wali. Deepa means lights, wali stands for string, and when those two words combine, they really make a string of light that enlightens the entire India. As it is one of the major festivals celebrated in India, it comes with various reasons of happiness for everyone. For kids diwali means complete fun as they get a chance to play with crackers. Not only kids but also many adults eagerly wait for this occasion, as they also get some relaxing time to spend with family, friends and crackers. This is the time when people can really relax and enjoy the delight of being with nearest and dearest ones. Variety of mouth-watering sweets and dishes that fascinate most of the food loving people is the other reason for what diwali is awaited. People enjoy various sweets and dishes during the entire period of this festival. For people who love to keep them indulged in spiritual activities diwali is the best time as for them there is almost the entire week to sit in front of god. The entire environment of this festival is all about sweetness, lights and enjoyment most probably this is the reason why not only Hindus but also people from all religions love to celebrate this occasion of light and glitter.
From a businessperson's point of view, diwali is the best time increase sales, as people love to buy things for them and their house in this festival only. No section of the market is untouched with the blessings of this festival either it is offline market of offline market. You can really find many surprising offers and schemes on numerous things, thus businesses do not leave any chance to attract their customer. From a customer’s standpoint, you can get the best deal in everything you want to purchase. Discount on every service and product is the biggest market attraction of diwali. After all this is the festival for the goddess of wealth so everyone should be blesses with prosperity.
Diwali is the time to celebrate but one should make sure that they take all sorts of precautions as this festival involves the playing with fire. Also, take care of kids and people around you who are not able to celebrate this devout festival. You can help them in enlightening their world too so that your diwali may get some more light and blessing of those incapable people. By doing so you will definitely get a real and gracious cause to celebrate this festival of light therefore accompany them in celebrating the festival and get a lifetime reason for lightening candles.

Pankaj