Deepavali or the Festival of Lights, marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year. It is calendar on the 15th day of in October,November in the Hindu calendar. Diwali celebrations can last for about five days.
Vocabulary
festival
meaning in English
festival of lights
calendar
celebrations
beginning
a list of planned events
Festival, a community gathering to celebrate something in particular
the point of time or space at which anything begins
an event ordinarily celebrated by a community
and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela or eid. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.