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20 October 2009
Diwali: from south India to Sheffield
Abhinav Ramnarayan, who graduated from the MA Print Journalism course in 2008, remembers a 2007 festival of lights held at the University of Sheffield in this article in The Guardian national newspaper.
"How about some sweeties, luv?" the girl said as she passed around some makeshift mysore paa and ladoos, traditional Indian sweets, side by side – bizarrely enough – with crème eggs and chocolate truffle. The scene was Diwali, or Deepavali, 2007 at the University of Sheffield, where South Yorkshire's Indian community had congregated at Moonlights, one of UK's largest commemorations of the festival of lights. Every aspect had been lovingly recreated down to the last detail – we even ended with the ubiquitous fight between north Indians and south Indians about whether Tamils should be forced to learn to speak Hindi, the national language.
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