The K shaped recovery of India
https://www.localcircles.com/a/press/page/india-consumer-spending-survey-2022
It shows that 33 odd percent families will spend over 10,000 this festival season while 35% families of our country wont spend anything this Sep/October
This indicates that while some dont celebrate Dussehra Diwali but given that its major shopping/sale season they still wont spend.
It is likely that pressures of petrol diesel price, food price and price of medicines/healthcare and every thing has squeezed the household budgets.
Government should understand the issues and then try to resolve this situation. more