This week, the Desi community around the Bay Area — and the world — is celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali. These five days of festivities honor more than just India’s Lunar New Year. Diwali ...

Every year for Diwali, Hetal Vasavada’s parents used to pull her out of her New Jersey elementary school to visit friends and family living nearby. The colorful South Asian holiday is the Hindu ...

Diwali (or Deepavali or Dipavali) is the festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists in the autumn to signify the victory of good over evil. This year, it falls on Monday, ...

Inspired by burfi — a fudgy, milk-based South Asian sweet — Hetal Vasavada makes a pistachio bark topped with melted white chocolate, edible flowers, and just a touch of 24-karat gold or pure silver ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Billions of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists worldwide are preparing to celebrate Diwali, also known as the "festival of lights." This year, Diwali begins Thursday, Oct. 31 ...