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Hello All and Happy Diwali,  It is fascinating to see fire crackers and lights all over Bur Dubai and it doesn't feel we are away from our home town in India. So many people from different emirates and far places in Dubai visit Bur Dubai specially in Diwali to see the great festival India has. I could hear fire crackers until 2.00 am in the morning and I was happy to see everyone enjoying, specially children.   Next day morning when I woke up and went to balcony, I saw few people cleaning the crackers left over and I felt these people also deserves a Happy Diwali, though it is their duty to clean but their workload increased massively. Everywhere there were burned out crackers and frankly who likes a increased workload! Now if you think this post is about criticizing people who burst fire crackers, but no! It is a trend to blame and criticize everything on internet which I want to stay away with. On the contrary, ...

This year is marked as Year of Giving by the UAE’s President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make a difference in the lives of people around us. UAE cabinate's website ( https://uaecabinet.ae/en/year-of-giving ) quoted, 'Giving is not limited to monetary donation, it is rather the difference we make in someone's life, in a society or in a Nation'. There are various ways to make a difference and we would elaborate on one of the ways to contribute to this initiative. Instead of arranging extravagant birthday party me & my friend decided to celebrate her daughter’s birthday with ‘Senses’ to mark our first Giving of the year. Senses is a residential and day care facility for special needs, I had heard about Senses but never been there. So picked my camera, few packets of chips to munch with children. We drove via Jumeirah road and it took us around 30 mins to reach, however it would take around 20 minutes via Shaikh Zayed Road from Burdubai....