What to eat at Diwali

Diwali, which falls this year on November 14, is a festival of family, fireworks and food. Here are the dishes to try to keep the Diwali flame alive in a COVID winter.

COVID has already put paid to regular Diwali celebrations. It was inevitable: eight people around the table to tuck into a Christmas turkey is one thing; a Diwali gathering involving your typical Asian extended family— aunts, uncles, fourth cousins and all — is quite another.

But, as a festival celebrating the triumph of light over darkness, we should all get in on the cheer and…