Diwali – Gifting Festival is Here

Diwali is one of the most celebrated events in India.Diwali is also known as “Deepavali” which meansthe rows of light. Probably it is one of the most awaited occasion as school and colleges go on a long holiday for the so-called “Diwali Vacations”. Many people plan trips to their native place or plan a leisure trip for the vacation.

Very few people might be aware of the striking similarity between Wedding Celebrations and Diwali Celebrations. Both are a marathon of events. For both wedding and Diwali families and friends get together and the mood is joyous. Food delicacies are mouth watering. Shopping of clothes, jewellery to are on top priority in the list of activities just before Wedding and Diwali. Gifting is an important activity both for Wedding and Diwali. The major difference in gifting between the two is, for Diwali major gifting happens in corporate domain whereas in Wedding it's social gifting.

Nevertheless, during Diwali,the gifts are purchased and gifted socially too. Most popular gift items for Diwali are Dry fruit boxes, Sweets and Chocolates. “Bhai Duj” is an occasion during Diwali where both brother and sister too give gifts to each other. The gifts those are trending for these occasions are imitation jewelry, Mithai combos,Ganesh thaal and much more. It's interesting to note traditional sweets like Ladoos, Sonpapdi, Petha and snacks like chakli,sev are popular and preferred gift over chocolates sent to relatives abroad from India. Lots of gift sare been send from India to the US, UK and Australia. Online shopping has made things easy for all of us that we can send gifts to our loved onceat a single click of button that too without having to compromise to browse a large variety of gift items for both social or corporate event.Talking about the gifting in the corporate domain, the trend is for packaged and branded dry fruits in beautifully decorated Hampers. Glass crockeries too is an evergreen gift category.

One of the lesser known fact about Diwali is, it is celebrated in other countries like Trinidad, Myanmar,Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and it is a national holiday. Thus Diwali is not only confined to the celebration in India but is much bigger in a sense. Once again we would like to summarise this article with our comparison of this event with the wedding which has all the elements of happiness, social bonding, gifting,rituals, indulgence into sweet and food delicacies which creates a life time memories.

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