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Celebrations are sweeter when together!

Are you all prepped up to welcome your loved ones home to celebrate Diwali? Not just in Tamilnadu, Diwali is a festival of togetherness, where people who live far apart make sure they are at home to celebrate this auspicious festival. What is a festival if it’s not celebrated together?

Family gatherings make the Diwali lights shine brighter and the sweets to taste sweeter with all the love and affection that surrounds us. Diwali is celebrated as the festival where we celebrate the good over the evil in regard to the story of Lord Krishna defeating Naragasura. There is also another version where it’s the festival welcoming Lord

Ram to Ayodhya after the 14 years of exile. Our reasons might vary but we in Tamil Nadu, embrace this festival close to our heart as we hold traditions dated back to our great great grandparents.

Haven’t you seen Thirukkuzhal- one of the oldest Tamil language text with couplets quoted by the ones around us? That’s where we see the rich culture that lives within the Tamilians in spite of all the modernisation and digitisation. Tamil being one of the oldest classical language, I feel proud that we as a bank have our home ground in Tamil Nadu.

With around 175 branches in this culturally rich state, we have a huge base of our customers from Tamil Nadu. We as a bank embrace the art that has been nourished in the Tamil soil - classical music and bharathanatyam by being a part of such events that encourage the traditional art forms.

Let us get ready to celebrate the festivals that are coming up by upholding the pride that we are from Tamil Nadu. For all your festival purchases, we have a bunch of offers on our Equitas Debit Card. You can visit our website and check out the offers to avail these and make your festival more colourful!

Vignesh Murali,

Head – Marketing and Corporate Communications, Equitas Small Finance Bank

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