Happy Diwali celebration by Incredible India in London

Diwali one of the most significant festivals in the Indian culture known as the “festival of lights” spiritually signifying the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. For many Diwali honours Laxmi, the goddess of wealth and fertility and for some the new business year will start. Lights, lamps, music, dances, food decoration and firework displays will be majort part of the festivities.

Veteran incredible snooker player of the 1970s and 80s, Dennis Taylor , compered the Incredible India Diwali festival at the Montcalm Grand Ball Room at Marble Arch, London, casts his mind back to the Ooty Club in south India, where snooker was originally invented by Army lieutenant Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, while serving in Jabalpur, India, in 1875, and had the honour of playing on the very table the sport began. He introduced, dances from several parts of India including Mohiniyattam. And Manipuri

“Without the Ooty Clun and that snooker table, I don’t know what I would have been doing. I might have been still back in Ireland working just in the local works. In my wildest dreams, I didn’t realise that one day I would be in India playing on the table where it all started.”