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REETA LOI LOOKS FORWARD TO CELEBRATING HER CULTURE, HER WAY
“Christmas gradually grew into a real celebration”
When I was a kid, we moved to Winchester, a beautiful English city and all-round great place to grow up. We were one of the first brown families to move there and it was a huge contrast to Southall, the bustling Indian heart of London where I’d spent my first six years.
My mum’s family are Hindu and my dad’s family are Sikh, and I’ve been raised celebrating lots of different festivals, including Diwali, the festival of lights, and Holi, the celebration of colour. Christmas didn’t feature massively in our house, apart from it being the only day we closed our shop and all got the day off.