
Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor
After lighting the lamp, told the kids this combined science& tradition: the practice is millennia old, but today the wicks are dipped in camphor to facilitate burning. The clockwise ritual mimics the sun rising in the east & the earth revolving around it: ancient Indian wisdom https://t.co/bSLfQGslPo — PolitiTweet.org