UK’s Sri Lanka High Commission celebrates Deepawali

Sri Lanka High Commission in London celebrated Deepawali festival with participation of a huge number of Sri Lankan Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and Muslims.

The event commenced with Hindu religious observances by Kurukkal Shree who blessed Sri Lanka and the gathering.

High Commissioner Justice Nihal Jayasinghe addressing the gathering said, “I believe that there is another meaning in celebrating Deepawali today.

As Sri Lankans living in the UK - as British Sri Lankans, it is a way of joining your family members, relatives and friends in Sri Lanka through the umbilical cord of our culture. It is a way of remembering and revisiting our culture.

It is an expression of unity in diversity as Sri Lankans wherever you live. Moreover, I believe, it is a lighting of an array of hope for a peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka.”

Quoting from the Deepawali message of the President the High Commissioner stated that “As Hindus of Sri Lanka, join their fellow believers the world over in the joyous spirit of Deepawali, we are now at the threshold of a new era, where the suffering faced by the Hindu community will be a thing of the past; and they could all look forward to living in peace and harmony in the comfort and tranquillity of their own homes.”