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Spokane’s Hindu community gathered to celebrate the victory of Dharma Saturday night, with dancing, skits and traditional Indian food.
More than 200 people from Spokane, Pullman, and some from as far as Montana, gathered at the Comfort Inn downtown to commemorate the sacred holiday, which is known as the Festival of Lights. During the festival many Hindus place lamps around their homes to symbolize good (light) over evil.
In the U.S. Diwali fell on Nov. 3 this year.
Several local Sikhs joined in Saturday night’s celebration. Sikhs celebrate Diwali to commemorate the release of their sixth guru from captivity.
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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
