is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year. The festival gets its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa/diya) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects them from spiritual darkness.

Patterns on the floor using colored powder or sand

The two largest settlements of the Indus civilization were

Little art survives from the Indus civilization; most is small sculpture. Perhaps the most famous aesthetic remnants of the Indus civilization are

a mausoleum with a mosque design constructed from dazzling white marble. The mausoleum contrasts sharply with the smaller flanking buildings, made primarily of red sandstone.

DIWALI is celebrated for how many days?

popular form of South Asian decoration on trucks

clay lamps that symbolize inner light

carved out of solid natural rock