Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Exciting Ways to Celebrate Diwali in Office

Diwali, the festival of lights is approaching near and you must be thinking of having a good time celebrating with your boss and colleagues in the office before joining your family, friends and neighbors for the gala later. This sure is the time to illuminate your office with lamps, lights and vibrant colors to spread positive energy and joy all around.

Your enthusiasm should reflect in how you dress, greet people and participate in decoration work and other preparations. Here are some exclusive ideas you can suggest and execute with colleagues, for not every day you’ll get to celebrate the conquest of good over evil!

Auspicious Colors of Rangoli 

Colorful rangolis have been a time-tested way to intensify the significance of this festival, and are still relevant. This Diwali, you can put forth the idea of beginning with making colorful rangolis to beautify your office in a traditional way.


Learn some new and easy-to-practice designs and include others to make the occasion equally special for all. Floral rangolis with multi-color art will be fine enough to become the center of attraction. You can also give ready made wooden rangolis a try as they’re becoming highly popular now.

Themed Clothing

Another creative idea that fits the occasion well will be themed clothing for all. You can, for instance, ask men to come in traditional kurta pajama and women to wear saris. This will in a way symbolize the belief of ‘unity in diversity’ at your workplace. If not every day, you can somehow honor the culture of the country where this festival originated and is celebrated with great enthusiasm by people of different faiths and cultures.

Cultural Activities

Organize a cultural function wherein all employees would willingly participate. Most businesses spend too much on musicians and singers for just a short performance, but you can instead ask everybody to participate by choosing to sing, dance or perform a variety of other activities. There is no need to give it a professional touch, for all you need is to have ‘fun’ by ensuring the engagement of each and everyone.
Street-food Party
Diwali is the festival of exchanging sweets and gifts, helping you to make workplace relationships sweeter & stronger. It would doubtless be a fantastic idea to arrange a small banquet party! You can arrange economical food caterers to set up small food stalls within the office.
You need not think too much about what food items to include, because street foods like paanipuri, chaat, tikki, vada pao and namkeen interest almost everyone. Also, it would be a refreshing idea to spend some time playing fun games after the street food party!

Lakshmi Pooja

No Diwali celebrations can be complete without Lakshmi Pooja, be it your office or home. In fact, Lakshmi Pooja is truly important when you are celebrating Diwali in your office. So, arrange a small Pooja for the well-being of all the employees, and peace and prosperity in the office.
Get a small idol of the Goddess Lakshmi, gently place it on the Swastika symbol and take everybody along to worship it with incense sticks, fresh flowers, rice grains and kumkum.

Happy Diwali! May your business flourish this year. 

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