The most beautiful of all Indian festivals, Diwali is a celebration of lights. Streets are illuminated with rows of clay lamps and homes are decorated with colours and candles. This festival is celebrated with new clothes, spectacular firecrackers and a variety of sweets in the company of family and friends.

CRACKERS: Bursting crackers with friends is an important part of a Diwali party, so make sure that you stock up on crackers when your friends come home. Avoid anything that makes noise; instead, opt for the phuljharis, sparklers, charkis and so on. They are bright and colourful, yet don’t make noise.

During Diwali, people wear their finest clothes, illuminate the interior and exterior of their homes with diyas and rangoli, perform worship ceremonies of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and wealth, light fireworks, and partake in family feasts, where mithai (sweets) and gifts are shared.

Yes definitely, they take showers and clean themselves like normal. I’m not sikh but have sikh roots. The idea is just not to cut any hair on the body, though there are different interpretations and levels of strictness on that. The number of times they wash their hair is just down to the individual.

The Sikh is required to undertake the following observances: Wake up very early in the morning. Bathing and cleansing of the body should be performed.

Actually according to sikhism rules it is mandatory for a SIKH to cover their head and in order to do so Sikh men have to tie a turban and sikh women must cover their head with a Piece of cloth that is popularly known as CHUNNI. No. All Sikhs do not wear turbans.

According to Persian records, Guru Arjan ate meat and hunted, and his practice was adopted by most Sikhs. The Sikhs did not eat beef and pork but ate boar and buffalo.