Wasn’t it yesterday? Isn’t today the preparation for the other bit that I can’t pronounce, their new year. I wished my chum up the paper shop happy diwali yesterday (he had his caste mark on). It’s a happy festival of light victory over dark, a bit early over here, ours takes place around Dec 21st and Christians jumped on it to promote the birth of their prophet.
Nothing to stop you celebrating with them, they certainly don’t mind, Hinduism is a very broad church which is more than can be said for a certain other religion, they just haven’t commercialised it to the extend the Judaeo Capitalists have ours, happy holidays…