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Last week was the week-long festival of Diwali. Once a celebration only for the Indian diaspora, today huge numbers of other Britons join in. Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain celebrated the festival at homes, in street parties and at prominent landmarks like Trafalgar Square. Diwali receptions were hosted by Britain’s industry leaders, corporate businesses, members of parliament, and even Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. As a Hindu, and director of a small publishing business, I also celebrated the festival with my family and conducted a traditional sacred account book ceremony to mark the start of the Hindu New …read more...