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Growing up in South Delhi, India, Diwali was easily my favorite holiday. In Christmas-like fashion, fairy lights enveloped homes and streets every year and presents for family, friends and neighbors sat in tall piles. If my sister, Kareena, and I didn’t put our things away, the Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha, the rulers of wealth and prosperity, wouldn’t visit our home, and my mother would scold us.
Diwali is known as the festival of lights for people of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh descent. Here are traditions, celebrations and customs for the holiday.
Shereen Bhalla is making the unusual transition from education director at the Hindu American Foundation to education director at the Anti-Defamation League.
Diwali has been celebrated in South Asia for 2,500 years. But in recent years, the Hindu Festival of Lights has resonated more broadly.
EXCLUSIVE Hank Azaria feels awful about his years-long portrayal of Apu — but there’s still a way he can get right with the Indian community which he, and others, feel has been harmed by the character. Shereen Bhalla — a rep for the Hindu American Foundation — tells TMZ … Hank doesn’t have to torment himself for his work on “The Simpsons,” or at least he doesn’t have to do it alone. Bhalla says she and the staff at HAF would love to have a sit-down with him. She tells us coming to the table with them would help Hank do a lot of the learning he seems very open to at this poin...