Diwali 2021: The festival is almost there and so is the usual question of “What to wear on Diwali?” Check out the list of 5 amazing outfits that will make your festival memorable.
The festival of Diwali lies ahead, and with it comes a joyous time filled with celebration and glamour. But the usual question still tags along again, “What to wear on Diwali?”
Now is the time to search around for that ‘perfect outfit’ for Instagram posts, and make a memorable appearance in a dazzling ensemble.
Saree with ruffle details
Saree stands to be the go-to outfit for Diwali and with good reasons. A vibrant coloured saree with chic ruffle detail imparts a modern but traditional Diwali look. Match it with a blouse of choice and enjoy the festival in style.
Dhoti pants with crop top
Give a bold Indo-western look with the combination of dhoti pants and crop top. Pair it with a jacket, and juttis or heels, for a stunning ensemble. Perfect for all types of parties, let this be the style for your 2021 Diwali festivities.
Lehenga with asymmetrical layers
No more the same, simple lehenga pattern. This Diwali, try going off the route, and choose an asymmetrical hemline, a likeable colour, and maybe some dainty floral motifs. Make it your perfect outfit for the festivities.
Sharara with drape details
Choose a sharara that comes with an attached drape instead of carrying a dupatta. Go for a lively colour with enticing details that will make it your Instagram-worthy outfit.
Dress with classic embroidery
Keep it simple and stunning with a maxi dress featuring classic embroidery. Pair it with matching jewellery and heels, and be Diwali-ready.
Diwali 2021: With Diwali festival approaching near, the EBNW Story guides you to select the best gifts for your loved ones:
As the festive time is round the corner, everyone is seen preparing for the festival and the most challenging part is to select right gifts for your friends and families.
Gift is just a gesture to show your love and appreciation to your loved ones but why not gifting our loved ones with some unique, innovative and eco-friendly products?
During festivals like Diwali, environment gets polluted with crackers.
So, let’s make our bit to alter the trend by making up our mind to show our love to our beloved ones while caring for Mother Earth too!
Let’s take a look at some of the best eco-friendly and sustainable gift ideas:
Boutique Unisex sustainable skin and hair care gift set:
There are people in your friends and families who love to pamper themselves and take great care of their body and skin. For them, this is one of the best eco-friendly skincare gift options to choose from.
The gift set consists of four amazing products, an antihairfall shampoo and serum, one flawless skin lotion and a whitening and brightening cream which is Unisex in nature. This care gift set is best as a Diwali gift whom your loved ones can use after Diwali exhaustions.
Plantable stationery Gift Kit:
A little stationery nerd is hidden inside every age group no matter if you are a school kid or an office worker. While gifting these eco-friendly stationery products, we are reminding our loved ones to be a responsible consumer. What can be a more good option than this plantable stationery gift kit which consists of all sorts of seed paper postcards, handmade paper notepads, paper pencils with seeds at the end. ‘Seed Paper is handmade paper made from waste cotton scrap with seeds embedded in them. They can be wet and planted post use to grow herbs, flowers and vegetables’.
The Green Tea Box:
A simple yet alluring design tea box contain six green teas and an elegant infuser for all the tea lovers you know. This Diwali, gift a box of health to your loved ones. This tea box is packed with durable environment friendly paperboard and contains hand-crafted Darjeeling teas. The six different organic teas includes- organic green, organic rose, organic turmeric ginger tulsi, organic chamomile, organic mint and organic jasmine. With a wide variety of flavor, this can be the best classy gift option.
Cute Silicon lamps for kids:
Diwali is one of the favorite festivals for kids, who look forward to receive gifts from their elders with excitement and joy. This Diwali, gift something unique, memorable and environment friendly product to your kid. A little gift can also give them a lesson for life which they will follow in their future and one of the most cutest options can be silicon lamps. They are energy power saving and environment friendly and come with different figures. The cute product runs on battery and has a USB charging unit too. It emits soft light that kids can sleep with.
Eco-friendly clothes:
How can we forget fashion when it comes to Diwali gifting and this Diwali, let’s switch to Sustainable fashion not just as gift but buy yourself clothes from sustainable fashion brands. Gifting someone clothes from such brands can be a great idea which will promote sustainable fashion and consequently, influencing people to be environmentally conscious. There are many sustainable fashion brands in India which you can choose from- B Lable, No Nasties, Mix Mitti, Mio Borsa, Brown Boy and many more. These brands offer voguish clothes which are 100% organic cotton, carbon-negative or are recycled from leftovers, defective and surplus fabric leftover pieces. Some of the brands also donate portion of its profit to preserve wildlife and natural habitats.
Beautiful candle holders :
Diwali, known as the festival of lights, gets its name from clay lamps (deepa). People buy clay lamps but a little more beautiful idea to gift your loved ones can be candlestand or tealight holder.
ANANTAYA has a beautiful range of attractive lamps, candle holders. The Umaid series of exquisitely crafted objects are made by the spun-brass metal workers and the traditional marble-turners from diverse communities combining their skills to create new products with a tapered silhouette and delicate lines. These gifts are environment friendly because you don’t need to throw them after one use. They can be used every year to decorate your house during Diwali.
Roop Chaudas, also known as Choti Diwali, falls on Chaturdashi of the Krishna Paksha, and is celebrated to remember the triumph of Krishna over Narakasura. Know more about its date, significance and rituals.
Roop Chaudas, also known as Choti Diwali, is celebrated on the second-day in the five-day long festival of Diwali, with early morning religious rituals followed by festivities.
Roop Chaudas Date this Year
Celebrated a day before Diwali and a day after Dhanteras, Choti Diwali is falling on November 3 this year. It will be followed by Diwali, Padva and Bhai Dooj.
Roop Chaudas Significance
Falling on Chaturdashi, 14th day, of the Krishna Paksha in the Hindu calendar month of Ashwin, Roop Chaudas is celebrated to remember the day when asura Narakasura was killed by Krishna, Satyabhama and Kali.
Krishna and Satyabhama fighting Naraka’s armies (Painting from Metropolitan Museum).
According to the Hindu mythology, Narakasura was the ruler of Pragjyotishpur (province to the south of Nepal) who kidnapped 16,000 women, stole the earrings of the heavenly mother goddess Aditi, and usurped some of her territories. Enraged, a war was waged against him and he was beheaded by Krishna with his Sudarshana Chakra, saving all the women and bringing back Aditi’s earrings. Thus, this day is also known as “Naraka Chaturdashi”.
Marking the triumph over the demon, this day shines a light on life, pushing away all the darkness and evil that has been creating a chaos in life, and abolishes laziness through its positive vibes.
Roop Chaudas Rituals
On this day, the puja is performed with oil, flowers, and sandalwood, and coconuts are offered to Lord Hanuman with prasada of sesame seeds, jaggery and rice flakes (poha). Delicacies are prepared from poha, which is taken from the fresh harvest available at the time.
On October 25 the first airplane themed restaurant opened for public in Vadodara, Gujarat. The restaurant is called ‘HighFly’ and is located on the main road near the highway of Vadodara city near Tarsali bypass. The owner of the restaurant is Mehmood Mukhi. HighFly opened with an unique concept of giving its customers a experience of being in a real Airplane. People who have never been into flight will also get an amazing experience of being inside a plane while enjoying good food.
Lets know some amazing facts about this airplane themed restaurant:
Highfly with a sitting capacity of 104
1. This is the first airplane themed restaurant of Gujarat which is located in Vadodara.
2. This is world’s ninth aircraft themed restaurant and India’s fourth.
3.The restaurant is build from a Airbus 320 which was bought from a company in Bangalore at the cost of 1.40 crores.
4. The parts of airbus 320 was purchased in scraps and brought to Vadodara, Gujarat in dismantled condition and later on was turned into an airplane themed restaurant with the help of technicians.
5. The plane was purchased back in 2019 and was ready to be designed as a restaurant but covid-19 pandemic hit and the project has to stop.
6. The airplane themed restaurant has an capacity of 102 people at a time with a sitting of 18 people on the left wing too.
Highfly with a sitting capacity of 18 on the left wing
7. The airplane restaurant will give its customers a real in flight feels with a aero bridge entry and welcome by airhostess. There is also safety announcements inside the plane which makes you feel that you are inside the plane in reality.
8. There are total of 40 staffs working inside the aircraft and all waiters and servers are dressed as airhostess and stewards to give a real flight experience to the customers.
9. There is also a waiting longue outside the aircraft for the people waiting for their reservation.
10. All covid guidelines are followed inside the airplane resturant for the sake of safety of people.
11. The food rates are kept affordable for the people of Vadodara, all the foodies and food vloggers now got a new amazing resturant to experience good food with an amazing airplane themed ambiance.
12. There is plenty of food options inside the restaurant, from Punjabi, Chinese, Continental, Italian, Mexican to Thai all these options are available for the coustomers.
Flying bike has now become a reality and its booking has also started.
Japanese drone-making startup ALI Technologies has launched the bike and its booking.
The company started a demonstration flying video of the world’s first practical hover bike XTURISMO Limited Edition and has started accepting bookings for the XTURISMO Limited Edition from 26th October.
The company will develop 200 units of this flying bike under which the XTURISMO Limited Edition is priced at 77.7 million yen (approximately Rs 5.10 crore) which includes taxes and insurance premiums.
During the live demonstration, the XTURISMO Limited Edition flying bike was seen soaring through the air in front of the Fuji Racing Track.
It was also seen slowly forming an eight-shaped figure in the air.
XTURISMO Flying Bike and its speciality
The XTURISMO Flying Bike or Hover Bike is powered electrically with an internal combustion engine (which runs on petrol). The company aims to bring a full electric version of this flying bike by 2025.
XTURISMO Flying Bike and its weight
The weight of the XTURISMO flying bike is around 300 kg, it measures 3.7 meters in length, 2.4 meters in width and 1.5 meters in height. At present, only one pilot can sit in it.
Dhanteras marks the beginning of the festival of Diwali. It is surrounded by 3 legends that are the reasons for the celebration of this festival. Khushneer Kaur reports more on its historical significance.
Dhanteras, also known as Dhanatrayodashi, falls on the first day that marks the beginning of the 5-day festival of Diwali in India. Celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksh in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, people buy gold, silver, property, automobile, and other such precious goods.
The 3 legends of Dhanteras
Dhanvantari imparted the wisdom of Ayurveda
Lord Dhanvantari, the God of Ayurveda.
Dhanvantari, considered to be the Hindu God of Ayurveda, was an avatar of Lord Vishnu who imparted the knowledge of Ayurveda for the betterment of mankind and helped to get rid of the suffering of the diseases.
According to the Hindu mythology, during the time of Samudra Manthan, when Gods, alongside demons, churned the elixir of life, or Amrit, in an ocean, Dhanvantari appeared carrying a jar full of the nectar in one hand and a sacred text about Ayurveda in the other.
He is also said to be the teacher of all the physicians, and is worshipped on this day to remember his wisdom.
16-year-old son of King Hima and his wife
The horoscope of the 16-year-old son of King Hima predicted his death by a snake-bite on the fourth day of his marriage. When the day came, his newly-wedded wife laid out all her ornaments and many gold and silver coins at the entrance of the sleeping chamber, and lit as many lamps as she could. She did not let her husband sleep, and kept him awake by narrating stories and singing songs.
When the lord of death – Yama arrived at their door in the guise of a serpent, he could not enter because of the heap, and was blinded by the brilliance of the ornaments. So, he climbed on the heap and sat there the entire night listening to the songs and the stories.
In the morning, he silently went away as the time to take the Prince had already gone. The Prince was saved by the intelligence of his wife, and the day came to be celebrated as Dhanteras.
Due to this, the ladies light lamps on this day that burn throughout the night, and wish for the long lives of their husbands.
Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the ocean of milk
Churning of the ocean of milk by both gods and demons.
According to the Hindu mythology, in the ever continuing struggle between Gods and Demons, when both of them churned the ocean of milk, Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the sea holding a pot of gold in her hands, radiating youth and beauty. She was accompanied by Lord Kuber, and so, both of the deities are worshipped on this day.
Diwali 2021: Wanna know which other countries celebrate the festival with high zeal and fervour…Here comes the list of other nations which celebrate Diwali with much enthusiam. Riya Shahi reports…
Diwali or deepavali is the beautiful festival of lights, which symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”. Diwali is one of the popular festival celebrated in India every year during the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November) and is associated with Lakshmi, goddess of prosperity.
Not only in India but Diwali is being celebrated in several other counties around the globe especially in the parts of Asia and South America with much enthusiasm. If you think that this festival is only limited to India around the Hindu’s population, then you are wrong. Many countries having a large no. of Indian population as well as countries where there are very less Indians, celebrates this festival with different rituals.
Let’s take a look at countries that celebrates Diwali just like India:
Malaysia
Malaysia where Islam is considered to be the official religion, celebrates Diwali very beautifully and this festival is under the public holiday here. Diwali is popularly known here as ‘Hari Diwali’ and is celebrated here with much enthusiasm by offering prayers to god together with family, exchanging gifts , sweets and wishes and not with buring crackers, as it is banned here. The festival is worth seeing in the area of Kuala Lumpur where all the celebrations are at outside of the homes of Hindus which give literal feels of India.
Singapore
Singapore is the one place which celebrates Diwali just like is it celebrated in India. Celebrating Deepavali as a public holiday this place lights up and the entire place is decorated by lights,colorful flowers and rangolis. Singapore has a favourable Hindu population who celebrates this festival with same rituals, happiness and enthusiasm.
Indonesia
Indonesia also celebrates Diwali and follows the same rituals as India. There is not a fair share of Indian population here but the festival is popular in the area of Bali where people burn crackers, release laterns and perform other rituals of Diwali.
Mauritius
Mauritius is one place with a large Hindu population and Diwali is celebrated almost a week and just like India, Diwali is declared as a public holiday here too. The hidu community along with non-hindus celebrates this festival with much joy and happiness and perform the rituals of Diwali. People here celebrate the festival with their family, lit lamps outside their home and burn crackers to spirit the day.
Fiji
Fiji celebrates Diwali with same passion and zeal as it is celebrated in India. With a hug number of Indian population, Diwali is one of the public holiday here and is celebrated by a large number of people. People by new clothes, sweets and decorate their homes an streets. Parties are organised on large level to celebrate this festival together with a lot or people.
Nepal
Nepal which shares its border with India, and is one of the country with many similar festivals that we celebrate here in India. Nepal has a huge amount of Indian migrated population. Nepal celebrates Diwali as ‘Tihar’ with same significance. The festival lasts for five days and each day has its own importance. The celebration includes decorating houses with lights, exchanging gifts and offering prayer to goddess Lakshmi. Diwali here is considered as the second biggest festival.
SriLanka
Sri Lanka One of our neighbouring country with a huge amount of Indian population and a history behind the origin of the festival, celebrates Diwali with greay excitement and zeal. Diwali is one of the biggest festival here and celebrated with lights and sweets.
Canada
Canada with a huge amount of Indian population and known as ‘Mini Punjab’ celebrates Diwali with much joy and excitement. Diwali here is not considered as a Public Holiday but is still celebrated in many cities in towns by Indians as well as non- Indians.
Photo of the year 2021: Watch this father son picture where Syrian dad without lower limb is happily playing with his son born without wither upper or lower limbs.
Photo of the year 2021 which has won the best picture award at the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) 2021 comes as a heartbreaking picture showing a Syrian father playing happily with his young son born without either upper or lower limbs.
Mehmet Aslan, a Turkish photographer captured this image and titled it as the ‘Hardship of Life’. The picture was taken near the Syrian border in the district of Reyhanli in Hatay, a province in Turkey.
The picture shows Munzir, father of the kid who lost his right leg after being hit by a bomb during a walk through a bazaar in Idlib, Syria. He is seen swinging his young son Mustafa in the air.
Mustafa, is also pictured smiling widely. He was born without lower or upper limbs, due to tetra-amelia, a congenital disorder, caused by medications his mother Zeynep had to take after suffering from a nerve gas attack during Syria war.
October 26 is celebrated as the Jammu Kashmir Merger Day and is called as the Accession Day to commemorate merger of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the union of India.
On this day, the last Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession in 1947.
Seventy-four years ago, soon after India and Pakistan got their independence, the month of October 1947 witnessed massive activity as Instrument of Accession was signed on 26 October, which ensured the merger of state of Jammu and Kashmir with the union of India.
Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession at Amar Palace in Jammu on October 26, which India’s last Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted on October 27.
Maharaja Hari Singh signed the instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947, in which the state of Jammu and Kashmir joined the Union of India.
• In Clause 4, the Maharaja declared accession of the state to India.
• Clause 5 declared that terms of the instrument were invariable, and can’t be changed with amendment of any law/act etc. without the acceptance of the J&K legislature by a supplementary instrument.
Madhuri Dixit Nene, instead of posing in a beautiful outfit, posted a good food, good mood photo on her Twitter and Instagram accounts on the occasion of Karwa Chauth.
On Sunday, Madhuri Dixit Nene posted a “good food equals good mood” photo on her Twitter and Instagram accounts, relishing a hearty meal on the occasion of Karwa Chauth.
Her healthy platter included some delectable vegetables like chopped zucchini, a pan sushi on the side, and a preparation of Faba beans. Madhuri used the hashtags “SundayFunday” and “SundayMeal”.
Earlier, Madhuri has posted many photos posing with delicious platters of healthy foods and drinks, her favorite being tea, which she once said she takes very seriously on International Tea Day.
Taking her health and fitness so seriously, there is no question why the Bollywood actress is still so graceful at the age of 54. She eats healthily and teaches her fans to do so as well.
