What is Dalidar Bhagao? Discover why people in Bihar beat a bamboo soop early morning after Diwali to symbolically drive away poverty and welcome prosperity." name="description">window.pageLoadStarted = (new Date()).getTime(). Diwali celebrations do not end with Lakshmi-Ganesh Puja and the lighting of diyas. In several parts of Bihar, the morning after Diwali is associated with a lesser-known folk tradition called Dalidar Bhagao, in which people symbolically drive away poverty and misfortune from their.