Diwali wishes
For the brother posted somewhere else, working through the festival, or studying abroad. Written to include him in the day rather than to wish him from a distance.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Happy Diwali, bhai. Your share of the mithai is being guarded, loosely, and won't survive the week. The terrace is full and you're missing the good part of the evening. Hope your day is a proper one wherever you've ended up. Ring when you can.
Continue writing with message 1Happy Diwali. Nobody here can rig the lights the way you do and it shows badly this year. Wishing you a full house, an easy festival, and a better twelve months than the last lot handed you. Eat something sweet on my behalf as well.
Continue writing with message 2Happy Diwali. Whatever else the year has been, I'm glad it's you on the other end of the phone tonight. Hope you get a real break out of this week and not a working festival. Come home for the next one. That's the whole message.
Continue writing with message 3Happy Diwali, bhai. The crackers next door started at six in the morning, Papa has already delivered the annual speech about noise pollution, and nothing has changed since last year. Hope your Diwali is louder than ours and twice as well fed.
Continue writing with message 4Happy Diwali. The best one we had was the year the power went out and we sat on the terrace with just the diyas and nobody complained even once. Thinking about that tonight. Missing you here more than I'd usually admit to in writing.
Continue writing with message 5Happy Diwali, bhai. Your mithai is technically being guarded, but I wouldn't count on it lasting the week. Nobody here can rig the lights the way you do and the terrace is honest about it. Hope you get a real break out of this festival rather than a working one, and hope the year ahead is easier than the last.
Give him a job he is missing. Nobody can rig the lights the way you do is a better Diwali message to a brother than any wish, because it says the house is worse without his specific contribution rather than just emptier.
Keep the sentiment to one line, at the end. Brothers read a long earnest card once. Two funny observations about the day followed by come home for the next one is the shape that gets kept.
Something with the day in it, not a picture of a diya with his name typed on top.
Write his Diwali cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.