HYDERABAD: After two years of Covid-induced lockdown lull, Diwali, the pageant of lights, was celebrated with grandeur, with folks from all walks of life exemplifying the real spirit of town’s famend Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb.

The pageant was celebrated with a substantial amount of enthusiasm, from lighting ‘diyas’ to cleansing houses and adorning them with lights, LEDs and rangolis.

Adults and youngsters dressed of their greatest conventional garments visited temples. Earlier than setting off firecrackers within the night, a particular prayer was provided to Goddess Lakshmi.

The gatherings of family members and mates exchanging items and sweets had been bathed in nice and vibrant lights and earthen lamps. In comparison with prior years, candy outlets did roaring enterprise as throngs of individuals flocked to them, whereas cracker outlets had a cracker of a time.

On the day of the celebration, the marketplaces in Begum Bazaar, Badi Chowdi, Normal Bazaar, Chikkadpally, Dilsukhnagar, and Medidipatnam had been crowded with buyers.

Quite a few hundreds of individuals descended upon congested bazaars to buy, reigniting the Diwali spirit that had been muted over the earlier two years attributable to Covid-19 limitations. Flowers, lanterns, and candles had been being bought at a frantic tempo within the marketplaces so as to adorn houses and companies.

Fireworks had been set off all all through town, with Banjara Hills, Himayatnagar, Basheerbagh, Malakpet, and Osmangunj seeing significantly noisy avenue celebrations. Quite a few vibrant fancy crackers had been set ablaze by retailer homeowners, significantly those that dealt in gold ornaments and treasured stones, from Gunfoundry to the tip of Abids Highway.

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