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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
As the city that never sleeps prepares to usher in the festival of lights, Nadisha Daniel captures the celebratory mood on camera.
Amid the bustle of Mumbai, the City Light market in central Mumbai is always overflowing with stalls selling various types of lanterns, diyas, stickers of swastikas and foot-prints of Goddess Lakshmi, rangoli powder and stencils for rangoli designs among other knickknacks.
Seen here are vibrant lanterns hanging by the side of the road for passersby to admire and buy.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
A man takes his time in picking a lantern from the assorted bunch on sale.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
A giant lantern in the process of being made; the lantern-maker hurried away as soon as he saw the camera.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
A little girl busily tries to untangle the strings of two tiny lanterns.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
Two lanterns await their turn to be hung up on display like the others.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
Stalls like these crowd the footpath with their assortment of lanterns and diyas as the traffic whizzes by.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
Customers do their yearly Diwali shopping, deciding on the various articles they require for their homes.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
These dynamic diyas sit packed together, stacked up each bubbling with their own design and sparkle.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
An upside down view of lanterns on sale.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
Two little boys excitedly give the finishing touches to the lanterns before they're put up for sale.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
A woman sits making the new-spangled plastic lanterns shaped in flower designs.
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IN PHOTOS: How Mumbai gears up for festival of lights
A schoolboy on his way home admires the festive lanterns.
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