(Originally posted on 30-Nov-14)
If there was anything I missed this year, it was Diwali. I missed being at home. Missed lighting the lamps. Missed the sweets. Missed the get-togethers. I asked everyone in my family to send me pictures of their Diwali celebrations to cheer me up.
Luckily for me, my friend and the family downstairs invited me to celebrate Loi Karthong with them - to go with them to the pond and float away the Karthong. During Loi Karthong, decorated "baskets" (Karthong) with candles and incense are set in water to float, as offerings to the water to wash away one's sins.
The celebration I went to was not typically traditional, though I did have a great time. We set our Karthongs afloat in the pond at the University. The family even kindly let me float a Karthong. Here are some pics from that day. (More on my Instagram feed - www.instagram.com/saividhyakannan).
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