the festival of lights brings in a lot of hues and happiness in our lives diwali calls for not just parties and celebrations but a lot of shopping too be it jewellery utensils dresses or rangoli the markets of bhopal big and small are all stocked up with the latest festive items from diyas and lanterns to led and chinese lights besides dry fruits and trendy clothing and people are flocking to them in huge numbers to get their fillthis year we started our diwali shopping with some decorative items and i am surprised to see the variety that has flooded the market theres something to suit everyones budget and needs said student ashi dubey homemaker shubhangi dubey who was buying firecrackers for her tenyearold son told us my family doesnt support burning crackers so we only buy one or two small boxes for our kids i bought rangoli kits for myself and cant wait to get started sandhya khare who was buying jewellery along with her husband says we only have time to shop after office and so have done most of our shopping online now we are only left with the lastminute knickknacks we will be ordering the sweets from home as well and will get it delivered on diwali the sweet shops were filled with hampers of various shapes and sizes ranging from 50 12000 in price one of the shopkeepers dharmendra dang told us this year we an exclusive range of signature sweets which we have made using international dry fruits for example we have sweets made out of pishori pista and gurbandi nuts which have been imported from neighbouring countries decorative items seller sonu raikwars shop has items specially brought in from ahmedabad we get all the trending items from there and at a reasonable rate too we have chinese lamps and led swastikas which are very much in demand this yearmankesh prajapati who was selling diyas along with his wife said though the market was down a few days ago people are now pouring in day and night to finish all their shopping i hope that my business does well this year taaki hamaari bhi diwali happy ho jayepics vishesh sharma