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Festivals and I

Festival is fun time. It is also time to think :

• You should not enjoy alone. You should enjoy in the company of friends and relatives.
• You should share your things with friends.

• If you have a poor friend, you should help him enjoy with you.
When you help others, the joy of celebration becomes manifold.

In India, a large number of festivals are celebrated. We can divide them into
two groups : religious festivals and national festivals.

Religious Festivals

Basant Panchami

Also called Saraswati Puja , Basant
Panchami is celebrated to mark the

arrival of the spring season. People,
especially students, worship

Saraswati, Goddess of Learning. In
many places, people wear yellow

clothes and fly kites.

Diwali

Also called the festival of lights , Diwali is an important festival of the
Hindus. It falls in the month of October or November. It is believed that

Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after a fourteen-year-long exile. People
clean, paint and decorate their houses. In the evening, they light their

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