00:00In Karimnagar, people do their Illa Vada in a cemetery to be with their ancestors.
00:13In the morning, they do Lakshmi Puja at home.
00:16In the evening, they come here.
00:18They clean and decorate their ancestors' graves every week.
00:26In the evening, they come here from 6 o'clock.
00:29When they are alive, they bring all the food items that they used to eat.
00:39We can see lamps on every grave here.
00:43Locals say that there are about 5 to 10 graves here.
00:47People come here on Deepavali because they feel like they are among their ancestors.
00:56We want to know where this tradition comes from.
01:01We have a Sudha chairman here.
01:05We want to know what kind of rituals are being performed here.
01:10This year, we celebrate Deepavali in cemeteries.
01:14We bring food items that our ancestors used to eat.
01:18We light crackers on their graves and celebrate Deepavali every year.
01:24This is our tradition.
01:26We have been doing this since our childhood.
01:30In our country, people do Lakshmi Puja.
01:33In Karimnagar, Karkhanda and SC cemeteries, we celebrate Deepavali every year.
01:38We clean and decorate our graves every week.
01:45Today, we bring food items that our ancestors used to eat.
01:51We clean and decorate our graves every week.
01:55We light crackers on their graves and celebrate Deepavali every year.
01:59We bring food items that our ancestors used to eat.
02:03Hundreds of families come here on Deepavali to celebrate their ancestors.
02:10We should respect this tradition.
02:13In the future, we should educate more people.
02:16Hundreds of families come here.
02:19You are celebrating Deepavali among the collections of ancestors.
02:23We should respect this tradition and continue it.
02:27Further, we should educate our ancestors in the future.
02:33This tradition exists in Karimnagar only.
02:36People bring food items that their ancestors ate.
02:44After that, they go home and perform the Meetha program.
02:48So, this is a special situation in our culture.
02:53We will definitely contribute to this in the future.
02:56We have now come to know that the festival is taking place in the cemeteries.
03:01So, in the coming days, we will have the Deepavali here.
03:05Because of that, they are saying that the festival is taking place among the elders.
03:10Reporting from Karimnagar, I am Ali Muddin from Tirupati for ETV News.
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