The Diwali preparations are in full swing in the city. The market was seen flooded with huge footfalls here on Monday. As Diwali is on Wednesday, Bhopalites are already in a festive mode as they shop for various items in the market.
On Diwali people make their homes more welcoming and fill in the cheerful atmosphere with diwali home decoration items. Weeks or months before the diwali festival, everyone starts decorating, designing and decking up their homes and have already prepared shopping list for diwali celebration and so the shop vendors are also satisfied with the sale.
The preparation for diwali in State capital has taken a different and unique way. Where the market street is full with tasty eatables, outfits and other stuff, female participants are seen busy in buying all the traditional decoration stuff from the market vendors. Moreover, the shopkeepers also seem exited in selling such materials as the prices of these materials are taking up a hike.
Shopkeepers are busy selling clay diyas, terracotta showpieces, puja thaals, artificial flowers, idols of gods and goddesses, lamps and torans in every nook and corner of the state capital. The festivity of Diwali is incomplete without diwali home decoration. People are busy in searching for new ideas to decorate their homes. New wall shades, curtains, candles, diyas, lanterns and much more. People are ready to experiment with their home decor this diwali.
The rangoli stencils are in much demand these days among young girls. One of the shopkeeper, Wahid says, “These stencils are available in new shapes and designs for the buyers to create beautiful rangoli at home. These stencils are available in range starting from Rs 100 to Rs 500.”
A shop vendor Rakesh Verma said, “This diwali people are more interested in buying the traditional yet trendy stuff.
So I have a lot of varieties which could satisfy their taste at affordable prices. I have stuff beginning from Rs 150 going upto the range of thousands. As per my observation people are more inclined towards buying candle lanterns and traditional bandhwaras.”