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Dispatches from Kolkata

Sweet Diwali

By Sandip Roy
Published October 18, 2022 at 9:40 PM PDT
An array of Diwali sweets
Sandip Roy
An array of Diwali sweets

Diwali is not just the Indian festival of lights. It's also a festival of sweets - eating them, making them, gifting them. But now old traditional sweets have disappeared from the Diwali hampers.

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