Parineeti,Aditya ring in early Diwali at Times Square

Crowley said that the festival of Diwali symbolises "enlightenment over ignorance" and brings people of differentrace and ethnicity together.Against the backdrop of recent hate crime against Sikhs in the city, Crowley urged the crowd to keep the community in its thoughts, saying "they are under great duress recently in US and we have to do more to enlighten our American people as to what the Sikh community is really about."