Gone are the days when people prefer simple earthen diyas to decorate and illuminate their houses on Diwali. Now, the trend has totally changed and people chose the beautifully decorated multi-coloured designer diyas over the simple ones.
The market, too, is trying to commercialise this trend and has launched various designer diyas, which are brought from different places to meet this augmenting demand of people.
Vineeta Heera, a local vendor at Dhamawala area, said that the demand of designer lamp have increased immensely in the recent years. These diyas are attracting large crowd of people because of its beautiful shapes and colour. “We have specially designed these diyas in leaves, hand, kalash, flower and many other more attractive shapes. later they are designed by using different highlighting colours, which adds to their looks.”
Sushil Kumar Mittal, a local shopkeeper at Paltan Market, revealed that he has brought around 200 varieties of different designer diyas from different part of the State. He has also purchased diyas from other States, including Agra, Meerut of Uttar Pradesh and many other places.
Mittal said that these diyas are designed in a special ways using mud and different terracotta colours, which add on their beauty. This latest designer trend is emerging widely among the customers due to its attractive and cheap prices ranging from
`5-500, he added.
“I prefer designer diyas over the old traditional simple diyas and had purchased dozen of it in different colours,” revealed, Kavita Pathak an engineering student. These latest designer earthen lamp has become a new choice for us to decorate houses in a traditional cum trendy way. “Earlier, the old simple diyas were available in mud colour, but these designer earthen lamps have provided us with wide varieties of colours, thus adding into our decorations,” gushes Siksha Sharma a local resident of Rajpur Road.