Divali Nagar opens to modest crowds amid funding controversy

The Di­vali Na­gar opened to the pub­lic last evening, but the first few hours saw a rel­a­tive­ly mod­est turnout, with sev­er­al booths still be­ing set up and lit­tle ac­tiv­i­ty across the fes­ti­val grounds.

Guardian Me­dia ar­rived short­ly af­ter 5 pm and re­mained at the Na­gar for about an hour and a half. Dur­ing that time, there were no sig­nif­i­cant crowds, long queues at food stalls or no­tice­able traf­fic con­ges­tion.

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While rain af­fect­ed oth­er parts of the coun­try, there was no rain­fall at the Na­gar dur­ing the vis­it.