Our family used to celebrate Diwali with such elaborate joy - weeks of preparation, homemade sweets, oil lamps everywhere - but the last few years we just go through abbreviated motions and nobody talks about how different it feels. The festival that once filled our home with light and laughter now feels like an obligation we're all performing for each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
The living tradition has withered into hollow ceremony, but no one dares name the loss for fear of seeming irreligious.
“Where Are You with Hindu nature traditions?”
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