A song of light : a modern yarn about the Festival of Diwali

On the eve of a recent Diwali, (that glorious Festival of Lights), the cantankerous and vainglorious moneylender, Salaram Baiman, comes face to face with a Shakespearean truth, to wit : "There is a divinity that shapes our ends ..." The fantastical events he experiences transform his view of the world and of himself. The Goddess Laxmi, with her helpmates, illuminates his understanding of the true significance of Diwali and the moral imperative of...