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Wednesday 26 October 2016

Best Diwali Beautiful Gifts to do Something Different

The Hindu festival Diwali is about to come and each person celebrate this festival in its his/her own way in India. This is the time for family and friends, coming back to home, and spreading the joy. Today, we are thinking that what spreads more joy and happiness on Diwali. On Diwali each person buy dry fruit boxes, sweet boxes, clothes, silver pieces, regular jewellery, or Diwali hampers. Let’s start something new in this festive season to gift your families and friends.

1 – Copper Utensils


Instead of traditional utensils, try something different that will shed a rosy glow in your loved one’s kitchen. There are many copper vessel salesman in market, you will find online shopping, that can provide you with the most beautiful and unique gifting options for your families.

2 - Earthen Pots


The second one is Earthen Pots. The designers earthen pots are also the best Diwali gifts. If you are a good painter with brush, paint it with little painting. So that it can be used in multiple ways like show pieces, flower pots, flower vases, or a simple knick knack container.

3 – Innovative Table Lamps


Beautiful and kitsch table lamps may be a cool choice to give as a gift, rather unusual gift as well as an interesting way to light up the halls and bedrooms. Unlike other Diwali lighting, they can use it all year round!

4 – Unique Diyas


Innovative and beautiful Diyas is another better option that spread the Diwali joy and also light up the homes. These Diyas may be earthen but in cool, interesting designs, or they can be metallic and slightly edgy looking. A set of such beautiful Diyas should be a pretty cool gift for this Diwali.

5 – Beautiful Candle Stands


In the festival season of Diwali, each person goes to market to buy candles. Therefore, you can win this round of Diwali gifting some cool and funky looking candle stands. But take care that the design and color should be matched with home décor theme.

6 – Diwali Cupcakes


Friends, Sweets have great importance in Diwali, but instead on going traditional sweets, why not gifts of cupcakes with Diwali theme?

7 – Cool Card Games


If you ask any uncle or other person what he looks forward to the most on every Diwali, and it will be those fun card games that are a riot of laughter and joy. Then why don’t you gift some interesting and Diwali themed knick knacks – like magnets, key chains etc.

8 – Bracelet Watches


Diwali follows right after Dhanteras, which is why there is such a surge of people rushing to buy jewellery presents. Set the mark a little different. Instead of buying your mom or sister or any other amazing woman in your life just another piece of jewellery, why not gift her a designer branded bracelet watch?

9 – Kindle


Your bookworm friends will tell you that you can never go wrong with the gift of the written word. So why not just gift a Kindle, which will bring them the joys of hundreds of books!

10 – Paintings


Every house needs some amount of artwork to adorn their walls. You could take a cue from that and gift your loved one a piece of beautifully painted artwork to hang up on their wall. Even better, if the painting is something meaningful for your relationship. It would add character to their home, as well as make them smile every time they look at it and think of you.

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Friday 21 October 2016

Dhanteras: Important Day During Diwali to Buy Gold, Utensils & New Clothes

Dhanteras’ is such a festival which falls just one or two days before Lakshmi Puja – the Diwali festival. The people also know this festival by the name of ‘Dhanatryodashi’ or ‘Choti Diwali’. The festival Dhanteras is celebrated as the symbol of wealth and prosperity.


According to Hindu calendar, Dhanteras is the first day of Diwali festival that most probably falls one or two days before Lakshmi Puja. The festival Dhanteras comes in the month of Ashwin, and is observed on 13th Lunar day according to Hindu calendar. The day has special and great importance for businessmen who buy gold ornaments on this day. The people also purchase new clothes and utensils for Diwali on this auspicious occasion.

How to celebrate Dhanteras?


On this day some people do shopping of gold and new clothes, and in the evening lit the lamps and welcome to Goddess Lakshmi into their homes. After the Lakshmi Pujan, females of the house make rangolies. Apart from this, the devotional songs and Arties are narrated, and various types of delicacies are prepared. The people are also worship of Lord Kuber together with Goddess Lakshmi on this auspicious day. Goddess Lakshmi is regarded as the treasurer of wealth. The secret of worshipping both is in the prospect of increasing the benefit in business. Each individual buy something including jewellery, Gold, silver, clothes, or utensils according to their budget.

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Mythological Stories about Dhanteras


This is the story about 16 years old son of King Hima whose horoscope predicted his death by snake bite on the fourth day of his marriage. The whole day his wife did not allow to let him sleep and laid out all her precious ornaments in a basket & kept it in the entrance with lit lamps all around it. Her wife continued singing songs so that her husband could not asleep.


On the next morning, when God of death Yama arrived at the door of her room in the form of serpent, his eyes were dazzled with the brightness all over. Yama could not enter his house and in the next morning silently left the place. Hence, the prince got saved with the cleverness of his life partner and thus this day is observed as Dhanteras. According to various legends, Gods and devils churned ocean for Amrita, Dhanvantari – the God’s physician, emerged out of it carrying a jar of elixir on the auspicious day.

Special Traditions and Preparations


Dhanteras is an auspicious day and occasion when business places are beautifully decorated and lamps are lit for the entire night. This festival is a huge one for all Hindus and they celebrate it with great zeal.

So don’t wait go ahead and get the spark of gold in your life. HAPPY DHANTERAS TO ALL