Every year the occassion of diwali celebration could be matched with sound of firecrakers. Homes are well decorated and earthen lamps are lit. Sweets are distributed and puja is done. Diwali could be called as the most glamoures festivals of India. For the people who don't know diwali, diwali is celebrated with same enthusiasm as Christmas in US.
The ancient story of how Diwali evolved into such a widely celebrated festival is somwwhat different for the people living in different part of the country. Afterall India is such a vast country. In the north, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and the surrounding areas, Diwali is the day when King Rama's coronation was celebrated in Ayodhya after his epic war with Ravana, the demon king of Lanka.
By order of the royal families of Ayodhya and Mithila, the kingdom of which Sita was princess, the cities and far-flung boundaries of these kingdoms were lit up with rows of lamps, glittering on dark nights to welcome King Rama and Sita who were in jungle(exile) for 14 years, ending with an across-the-seas war in which the whole of the kingdom of Lanka was destroyed
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