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The festival of lights is here and it is also a period of auspicious buying and gifting with consumers splurging on gadgets, white goods, apparels, jewellery and more.
However are the consumers willing to shell out money this time? Or will they hold back their budgets owing to an overall economic slowdown? Here's a ground report from Ankita Saxena.
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