Deevalli is the most important festival of the Hindu calendar. It celebrates, in the Hindu mythology, the victory of Good over the Bad. It is practiced throughout India, neighboring countries and, more generally, around the world inhabited by a Hindu community.

During Deevalli festival, a profusion of small oil lamps or candles illuminate the three nights from Friday to Sunday. Besides traditional culinary recipes, it is the opportunity to wear new clothes: festival of renewal, similar to the Western New Year.

Day too often spoiled by the noise of firecrackers, sometimes almost bombs, and other fireworks, recent habit of expressing the joy, but with the result, each year, killing hundreds of people, often children, and too many cases of burns.

Volontariat celebrates Deevalli too, but as the light festival and we purchase useful things and try to convince parents not to give in to the pressure from their kids to buy firecrackers.

At our farm of TTK, the only sounds come from children of Nila Illam and Souriya programmes [at least those who did not return to their family homes], plus all those adults and children who came to celebrate Deevalli with them; we were nearly a hundred between Saturday and Sunday. These days are filled with various games in small groups of children: badminton, cricket, cycling, makeup, card games and educational games very popular.

On Saturday, at dusk, the highlight of the festival, all gathered in the play ground to sing, dance, play together; then to sacrifice to the tradition, we offer various small pyrotechnic sparks giving Color white, green or red ... under the strict supervision of adults. The festival ends with a small firework, punctuated by oh! and ah!

Until late at night, when all were sleeping at TTK farm, we could still hear the distant noise of firecrackers and fireworks, burnt by all the villagers around:
The money for their livelihood going into noise and smoke!