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A Diwali night they step out into
Diyas, fireworks, your photos — and a teddy too scared to light his rocket.
A Diwali street to stand in — diyas, lights, fireworks and your photos — and a nervous teddy whose rocket writes their name across the sky.
A housing-society street on Diwali night, decorated the way every street in the colony is. Diyas in rows along the compound walls, strands of lights hanging down whole buildings, star lanterns in the balconies, marigold torans on the gates, a rangoli at their feet — and the neighbours' fireworks going up all round.
They stand in the middle of the road and look around by moving their phone. Your photographs hang in gold frames on the porch of the house beside them, under a string of lights.
What happens when they open it
- 1
A teddy with a rocket
In the road stands a teddy with a fuljhadi in one paw and a rocket in the other. Tap him and he stands the rocket in a glass bottle. Tap again and he creeps up to light it — and loses his nerve. It takes a few pushes.
- 2
He lights it, and runs
When he finally does it, he turns and runs, falls flat on his face halfway back, scrambles up and makes it to their side with a paw over his ear, just as the fuse runs out.
- 3
Their name in the sky
The rocket goes up over the street, bursts, and bursts again — and writes "Happy Diwali" and their name across the sky in sparkler light. Then your message.
Who it suits
- Family in another city who can't be home for Diwali
- A brother or sister you'd normally be bursting crackers with
- Anyone who'd laugh at a teddy too scared to light his own rocket
Worth knowing
- This is a premium design. Making it needs a Google sign-in and one premium credit, and it stays online for 90 days. The person you send it to just opens the link — no account on their side.
- Photos are optional. Up to five hang framed on the porch; send none and the porch gets Diwali prints instead.
- Turn the sound on: the crackers, the rockets and the fuljhadi's fizz are part of it.
- On an iPhone they tap Allow once so the phone's motion can turn the view. If they'd rather not, dragging does the same thing.
- Your photos stay private. The street is only reachable by someone holding the link.
Occasions it's offered for
Send this one
Write your message, get a link, send it however you'd send any link. It takes about five minutes. It's a premium design: you sign in with Google and use one premium credit, and whoever opens it needs no account.
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