This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Diwali, also known as the festival of lights ...

Pranita Panda of Yarmouth makes coconut laddoo, a traditional Diwali sweet she learned from her mother. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Pranita Panda stood in early November in her ...

Come Oct. 28 -- the new moon of the lunar Kartika month -- Mandira Bhasin Thorsen and her husband, Eric Thorsen Jr., will light candles and hang festive lights to celebrate Diwali, Festival of Lights.

For Vijaya Selvaraju, Diwali celebrations while growing up in the suburbs of Toronto centered around her mother’s home cooking — namely, the sweets. “My mom has a South Indian catering business, and ...

A few years ago, I found out from a DNA test that I’m about 19 percent South Asian—from southern and eastern India, results said—and I just had to learn more about that culture I never grew up with. I ...

Around 2,500 years ago, someone in India had the inspired, world-changing idea to extract granulated sugar from sugarcane juice, thereby creating joy. True, it was not the most long-lasting sort of ...

As Diwali lights begin to twinkle across homes in India and around the globe, something unique and magical happens in the kitchen. The sound of a wooden ladle swirling through ghee, the smell of ...

For many New Yorkers from the Caribbean, Diwali is marked with sweet treats like prasad. By Ramin Ganeshram Even though Seema Singh’s home in Richmond Hill, Queens, will be filled with sweet treats ...