By Marcus Smith ’27, Student Correspondent<\/p>\n
The Hindu festivals of Diwali and Navratri occurred in October with commemorations across Indian communities in the Scranton area.<\/p>\n
At The University of Scranton, these festivals hold significance for a large part of the community and the University\u2019s Asia Club hosts a celebration of the holidays each year.<\/p>\n
Diwali is the annual celebration of good triumphing over evil, commemorated as a festival of lights.<\/p>\n
For Sofiya Magar \u201928, a marketing major from Scranton and\u00a0the vice president of the Asia Club, it is more than just a religious ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s about unity, gratitude and the light we share with one another, bringing our community closer together through understanding and celebration,\u201d Magar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The celebration included a presentation on the origins and significance of Diwali and Navratri, food catered by Aramark, traditional Indian dancing and henna painting.<\/p>\n
Even though Diwali is an Indian celebration, it is celebrated in many places all over the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiwali is celebrated across the world by millions of people, not only in India but also in many other countries where South Asian communities live,\u201d Magar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Marcus Smith ’27, Student Correspondent The Hindu festivals of Diwali and Navratri occurred in October with commemorations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14819,15704,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-23642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-diwali","tag-navratri","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}