Deepavali Day
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 
Here in singapore, we have a national holiday when our indian counterparts celebrate Deepavali .It’s a hindu festival where light overcomes darkness.
I watched a program called G-d is green recently shown here.It’s about how religions can help to reduce greenhouse emisssions worldwide and talked about hinduism from India too.
The host of the program from UK asked a few Indian folks about this issue and got some interesting reply..basically the answers he got was somehow fatalistic about the global consumer use of fossil energy and the harm it’s doing for us if we do not find ways to reverse the growing trend.
India has just started the industrial revolution in her cities nationwide and will compete and consume energy with China and the western world.How much damage and how long this trend continue remains to be seen..
I wish all hindus a happy deepavali and may the light shine forth in our search for cleaner and sustainable energy.



