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Bowl of sesame oil with sesame seeds for the Diwali abhyanga bathDr. Satish Upalkar / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Soft Bengali sandeshBilljones94 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Bhai Dooj aarti thaliপাপৰি বৰা / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Five-wick brass diyaAmitbsws / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Clay diyas glowing on a rangoliBenoy / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Mixed dry fruits - cashews, almonds and makhanaSonia Goyal Jaipur / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
An earthen pot tied to a date palm to collect khejur rosh, the sap that becomes nolen gur, in Taki, West BengalBiswarup Ganguly / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · source
A halwai tending a huge kadhai of freshly fried golden boondi for laddoosSatdeep Gill / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Workers treading cashew apples in Chorao, Goa, as the cashew harvest is processedFredericknoronha / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
A plate of fresh fafda on newspaper at a farsan shop in Bhuj, KutchKartikMistry / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Sweet-makers in Bokakhat, Assam, rolling fresh pedas by hand onto large steel traysDr Vikramjit Kakati / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Plantation workers carrying their harvest baskets home along the road at Glenlorna, a Tata Coffee estate in CoorgPhilip Larson / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
A cook flipping a puran poli, the jaggery-and-dal flatbread of Maharashtra, on a hot tawaLetsgotoexplore / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Farmers boiling sugarcane juice into gur in a huge open pan in PunjabAmarvirbilkhu / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
A karigar making Rajasthani ghevar, stacking the golden honeycomb discs on a rackSalil Kumar Mukherjee / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Murukku being fried over an open fire in Tamil Nadu, a hand turning them in hot oilThamizhpparithi Maari / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Mamidi tandra (Andhra mango sweet) spread in long rows to dry in the sun under coconut palmsవిశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె. / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
A sweet-maker dropping hot sugar syrup onto a metal sheet, where each drop sets into a batashaTAPAS KUMAR HALDER / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Whole cashew nutsBilljones94 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Fresh kokum fruitsPhadke09 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Crisp chorafali stripsSaurinjoshi / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Squares of mohanthal on a plateDkgohil / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
An open box full of assorted barfi and mithaisecretlondon123 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Brown caramelised Dharwad pedhasUnknown / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · source
Piece of Mysore pak on a banana leafCharles Haynes / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Plate of Diwali faral snacks - chakli, ladoo, chivda and karanjiNitinberlekar / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Plate of Punjabi pinniDivas Grover, reprocessed by Off-shell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Bowl of Bikaneri bhujiaBilljones94 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Jaggery adhirasam from SalemThamizhpparithi Maari / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Peanut and jaggery kadalai mittaiZeel Patel / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Crunchy murukkuThamizhpparithi Maari / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Plate of Kakinada kajaB.K.Viswanadh / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Tray of motichoor laddoosGaurav Dhwaj Khadka / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source