Diwali, The Hindu festival of light
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Indian Muslim students light earthen lamps to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at a school in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Diwali will be celebrated across the country on Nov. 5.

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Indian Muslim students light earthen lamps to mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at a school in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Diwali will be celebrated across the country on Nov. 5.
A woman holds a firecracker during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010.
Children light firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010.
A Pakistani mother from the Hindu community offers flowers at a local temple during the Diwali celebrations in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is being celebrated across the country.
A child reacts as a firecracker lights up during Diwali celebrations in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is being celebrated across the country Friday.
A Nihang, or traditional Sikh warrior, stands in front of an illuminated Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine, ahead of Bandi Chhor Divas, that coincides with the Diwali festival, in Amritsar, India, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The day marks the release of Guru Hargobind from a prison and his return to Amritsar where he was welcomed with thousands of lights and lamps.
A firecracker lights up the sky as candles and lamps are seen lit across a field ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Diwali will be celebrated across the country on Nov. 5.
A Nepalese Hindu woman worships and offers fruit to a cow, regarded as an incarnation of the Hindu Goddess of prosperity, Laxmi, during the Tihar festival in Kathmandu on November 5, 2010. Hindus across the country worship cows on the third day of the Tihar (Diwali) festival which commemorates the time when Hindu god Lord Rama achieved victory over Ravana and returned to his kingdom in Ayodhya after 14 years in exile.
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