Can India’s most popular festival bring together the disparate South Asians of Canada?
For Vancouver’s Milan Singh, Diwali is the fun and sacred time of year when she says “all my friends crash my parents’ house” to hang out, pray, eat her mother’s food and deliver some of it to nearby relatives.
The “festival of lights” is a rare and wonderful “convergence” of religions and ethnicities for the 28-year-old Indo-Canadian Hindu, since her friends and ...