Diwali diyas make way for Halloween costumes in spooky season
Halloween is on Friday – and from Delhi’s Khan Market to the housing societies of Noida and Gurgaon, the trick-or-treating spirit seems louder, quirkier, and more local this year.
The Allied Store is decked up for Halloween. (Anusree KC) As October winds down, Diwali diyas have made way for plastic pumpkin lanterns. In cafés, restaurants, and homes, the city is leaning into the spooky season with costume parties and decorations.
Halloween is on Friday – and from Delhi’s Khan Market to the housing societies of Noida and Gurgaon, the trick-or-treating spirit seems louder, quirkier, and more local this year.
The Allied Stores in Khan Market, one of Delhi’s oldest novelty shops, has turned into a Halloween hub.
The shelves are lined with ghost masks, spider webs, vampire capes, skeleton garlands, bats, and spiders. From the walls and ceiling hang plastic pumpkin lanterns, fake cobwebs, skulls, and severed, bloody limbs. Shoppers are sifting through costumes – Wednesday Addams, Chucky and Michael Myers costumes are the most in demand.
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