For those of you who don’t know, Diwali is a major festival in India celebrating the return of King Rama from his exhile. It’s also known as the festival of lights and is celebrated with lots of lights and fireworks, and of course, sweets! http://www.rajkidelicacies.com/
I would highly recommend reading the Ramayana. It’s an ancient Hindu epic of King Rama’s exhile. His wife is kidnapped by Ravana, the demon king of lanka, and so Rama and his brother Lakshmana journey to save her with the help of the Monkey-God Hanuman. It explores a great many moral themes and it the quintessential hero’s journey. I learnt a lot about Hindu values from reading this epic (and from "other" sources...). The other great epic of India is the Mahabharata. More on that another time!
