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Travel | Festival of Lights
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Kartika
Poornima is a Hindu,
Jain and Sikh holy
festival, celebrated on
the purnima (full moon)
day or the fifteenth
lunar day of the month
of Kartika. It is also
called Deva-Diwali or
Deva-Deepawali:
the Festival of Lights
of the Gods.