Bangalore is one of the mega cities of India and it used to boast the status of “City of Garden”; but now it’s a different story and this garden city is well-known today as IT hub of India. However, technological advancement has not deterred people's zeal and zest to celebrate Indian festivals like Diwali. Bangalore folks welcome this festival of light with a real spirit of celebrations, and enjoy each and every ritual and festivity during these five days. Bangalorians are full of swagger and therefore, they flaunt lot of style & spectacle in their festival celebrations. Colourful lamps, sparkling fire-crackers, trendy apparels and innovation in food & sweets – this is the way they greet this vibrant festival. The city plays host to many migrants, who have settled in Bangalore for jobs & business; and this has created a multi-cultural fabric of city, which is colorful and diversified.
Due to its metropolitan nature, all festivals in Bangalore become cultural confluence for locals, who had warmly greeted people from every corner of India. Diwali is an occasion, when people send Diwali gifts to Bangalore to their relatives & family members living in Bangalore. Since they are net savvy, they use online shopping portals to dispatch Diwali gifts to Bangalore.
As happens in other parts of India, in Bangalore too people clean their houses, buy new clothes for every member of family, light lamps and fire crackers. The jubilation starts from dawn and continues till late night as they believe that firing crackers would avert darkness from their life. Legend goes that king Bali boasted of his incredible powers and to shatter his pride, Lord Vishnu took Vaman (human being as dwarf) avatar and asked Bali to grant him three steps of land. Bali, a renowned patron of Brahmins, agreed to fulfill Vishnu’s wish. On this, Lord Vishnu resumed his colossal figure and covered entire heaven and earth in just two steps; for the remaining one step, Bali offered his head for Vishnu to put his third step. Thus, Bali was defeated by Vishnu and this conquest is celebrated on the fifteenth day of darker side (new moon) of Ashwin month.
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