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India is known for its ethnicity, culture, languages and so on. One of the main festival celebrated in the southern part of India mainly in Tamilnadu, native to one the oldest language in the world - Tamil, is Karthigai Deepam. Just like how the whole world lits up during Christmas, we the people of Tamil Nadu lit up the traditional diyas in and around our homes. The diyas not only brings us the joy and happiness but also to believe and trust in positivity, there's a hope for something, to trust in the process and you'll find light at the end of the tunnel. This festival commences with the a high ranked priest lighting up the a long cylindrical diya on top of the sacred Thiruvanamalai, the same moment lakhs of diyas are lightened all around the state. This festival brings people together and it's not a festive celebrated only by Hindus but all people disregarding community, caste, and all those terms that tends to divide people of current world. Mainly we the people of Tamil Nadu have a way of drawing on the entrance of our homes just outside the main gates and is called kolam. One the main thing about this picture is that here the diyas are kept on top of the kolam and was drawn by my mother and you'll never seen a man bending down on his knees to draw this.Though the state has many paradoxes to be questioned, this festive brings us together, men lit up diyas and kids gather around to burst crackers those are leftover from diwali, we would like to go by the principle united we stand divided we fall. Here the diyas are made from the sand mainly clay and the thread those are used to lit up are from the pure cotton , dipped into the sesame oil that's traditionally made by the store in the next block. To me lighting up a diya gives a sense of comfort and contempt and I just watch them lit up and some get extinguished before I do while some withstand the wind. I just enjoy them being lit up, how they withstand , the time taken for the thread to get soaked in the oil so that it burns smoothly. Everything is admirable , the process matters more than the result.
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