Follow the Southampton’s adventure of Marguerite and Guilhem from the IEMN-IAE, Nantes, France.
Summary Episode:
Drum rooooooll! It’s Diwali! Discover a little bit of Hinduism culture.
Music:
Generic soundtrack: Koh Lanta Theme
Music theme: N’to – La Clé des Champs
We have tried to take the comments you made about our past video into consideration again. We tried to make this video as short as possible while being relevant enough.
You will notice that we had to use images from different Channel in order to cover the event and provide interesting information’s support. Please find attached the original videos before footage:
Update News | London celebrates Diwali in Trafalgar Square 2016
IBTimesUK | Diwali 2015: Watch the UK celebrate the Festival of Lights
10 Downing Street | Diwali Reception 2016 at 10 Downing Street
Episode’s script:
Last Sunday took place the Hindu festival of light – Diwali. An important celebration in the Hindu calendar, Diwali symbolises the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.
Taking place over a period of five days, Diwali is a time for decorating buildings with lights, firework displays, wearing new clothes and exchanging gifts – often sweets and dried fruits.
In London the mayor, Sadiq Khan hosted a massive celebration in Trafalgar square while the prime minister Theresa May held a reception at 10 Downing Street to mark the event.
As we wanted to see how the well-established Hindu community celebrates Diwali in Southampton, we came along to the Vedic Temple on Sunday evening, where fireworks were set off.
As you can notice, the celebration was many times more modest than in London – and actually pretty dangerous as fireworks were set off very close to the crowd.
After long minutes of intense smoky fireworks shooting, the faithful headed toward the temple.
Entering this sacred place was a great opportunity to get to know a little bit more about Hinduism culture and highlighted the strong diversity of our host city – Southampton.
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