The drab mist in New York was little match for the holiday at hand: Diwali, the festival of lights that symbolizes the triumph over darkness. The multi-day festival has secured a sturdy foothold far from the Indian subcontinent in places with significant disapora populations — like New York.
, but the drab mist was little match for the holiday at hand: Diwali, the festival of lights that symbolizes the triumph over darkness., the multi-day festival has secured a sturdy foothold far from the subcontinent in places with significant diaspora populations — like New York.
The many sweets shops of the Queens neighborhood, known for its South Asian community, were packed to the gills with little room for movement. In the stands outside Apna Bazaar, a grocery store, a sea of small clay pots and wicks for Diwali lamps lay alongside fresh bunches of cilantro and above bags of onions. Handwritten blue signs advertised Diwali specials for everything from 40-pound bags of rice to ghee, tea and pitted dates.
Outside a Patel Brothers grocery store branch, Bhanu Shetty has run a pop-up Diwali stall for two decades. Her son Pratik says the temporary Flowers by Bhanu stall typically draws around 3,000 customers over three days. She is more circumspect: "People come." Jackson Heights is a multiethnic, multi-religious neighborhood, and some stores still featured signs offering Eid sales. Suneera Madhani, the Pakistani American founder of Stax, attended the Diwali party at The Pierre as a gesture of South Asian solidarity. She says she would love to heighten Eid's profile in New York in a similar manner.
"Our generation has really embraced our culture and the expression of it," said another host, Anjula Acharia, Priyanka Chopra Jonas' manager.
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