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BITS PILANI - Goa Campus

One of the fastest-growing  festivals ,  Waves  the Cultural Fest of  BITS PILANI - Goa Campus  is one of the top-rated College  Festivals  of the country. Let's not talk much about its history which can be known from Wiki also. Instead, I'll just mention a few of the best things which ever happened in the country.  Last year, Waves was the first-ever College Fest to associate with  Sunburn  and together hold  Sunburn Campus , a pre-Sunburn event in the Campus, which later went to other colleges too! It won't be hard for you to tell at how high a rate, the current graph is tending to rise. And since it's Goa, it's getting a mix of how  amazing  celebrations can be like. :P  None of the fests have ever seen such a peak in so little time. The best part about  Waves  is that  not even a single penny  is funded by the government unlike many big cultural  festivals  in India. Everything from b...

Deepawali

  Diwali   is the  Hindu  festival of lights, usually lasting five days and celebrated during the  Hindu Lunisolar  month  Kartika  (between mid-October and mid-November).One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the  spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance". The festival is widely associated with  Lakshmi , goddess of prosperity, but regional traditions connect ito  Sita  and  Rama ,  Vishnu ,  Krishna ,  Yama ,  Yami ,  Durga ,  Kali ,  Dhanvantari , or  Vishvakarman . In the lead-up to Diwali, celebrants will prepare by cleaning, renovating, and decorating their homes and workplaces with diyas and rangoli. During the Diwali people wear their finest clothes, illuminate the interior and exterior of their homes with  diyas  and rangoli  (oil lamps or  candles ), offer  puja ...