Divali (H...

Divali (Hindu festival-type-thing about triumph-of-light-over-darkness which I probably need to have explained to me again before I can explain it to anyone-- don't tell my mother) is this Friday. I like Divali as much, I think, as I like Christmas, which is a lot. People come over, some of them just for the food (curry!), but most of them stay and threaten to burn our house down with a (very pretty) combination of unsteady hands and dozens of little oily cups of fire, also known as deyas. It's probably dangerous-- our carpet caught a bit of a fire two years ago-- but we can't be stopped. Not just because some of us are religious, or because it's traditional, but because it's too much fun. And, well, we try to keep the deyas away from the house as much as we can...Juniatha