In India people do not celebrate Halloween as we do in Europe and America. They believe and celebrate their own holiday, which is with similar meaning to Halloween.
The festival in India that corresponds to the Halloween here is called Diwali. It is one of the major Hinduism festivals and is truly pan-Indian. The festival of light is observed with tampled services. This includes recitations and singing of sacred texts. The Indians celebrate this holiday according the lunar calendar. In our Georgian calendar the time corresponds to the late October and the beginning of November. This is the time when the autumn ends and the winter begins. For many Indians that is the time when the commercial New Year is coming. This is the reason why the people clean their homes, and also light oil lams which usually are placed along the parapets or float them in the rivers.
Hundus believe that the dead people live on. This happens when the souls are reincarnated in the bodies of other people. The people wear their new cloths, exchange gifts with friends and relatives and invoke the goddess of prosperity and fortune, Lakshmi, to bless them. The |Bengal Diwali believe and honor Kali, the goddess found in many religious. It is believed that she is the five-millennia-old Creator-Preserver-Destroyer of the Universe, the womb-and-tomb primal mother. According many people and stories her breath is the university’s pulls, she gives the birth of the world and her energy drives the cosmos. Usually she is described with wild hair, wearing necklace of skulls, with red of blood tongue. People say that she dances on cremation ground ecstatically and that she is the one who gathers the souls of the dead people as seeds and then gives them new live.