Diwali
25 October 2003, 3:13 PM
I hope this is a good Deepavali (Diwali) for my Hindu friends out there!
I got invited to a celebration this evening by the Indian students here on
campus, so I'm looking forward to breaking my diet with a few Indian
sweets. Yum. :-)Found some recipes on The
Hindustan Times web site. Oh geez, I could go for some rasmalai...
[Update: So I was good to my diet and didn't have the sweets. Actually I
didn't have anything because I wanted to make sure the student group had
enough to serve everyone - they had a HUGE crowd. There were a lot of
people from campus Indian/Pakistani community (small in this town, but
still enough to get a cricket match together) and lots of non-South
Asians, staff and faculty mostly, from the Computer Science Department and
the IT Division where a lot of these students take classes or are
employed. The Ballroom was absolutely filled to the brim. It was neat too
- I just got an invitation and didn't know what to expect. The students
put together a program that was rather educational (several classical and
traditional dances, several songs - both classical and modern,
explanations and fashion show of different styles of dress, poetry and an
invocation). It was extremely well organized and rather nice.]