dear Jay,
sorry to mention but this photo could be fake because of the following reason:-
1) if you see the photos properly , you could easily saw various zones being lighted up in single color either red, green or blue. Geographically on zone almost represent one state . so its not possible for a whole district, city or state to have a same color lighting arrangement through out the state. even if we assume it is so, then TV news channel must have been shouting on the event of diwali and u know there was no such activity.
2) By mistake or intentionally they have shown srilanka but not kashmir. USA and almost all christian country accepts kashmir as a territory of India. So there is a very rare chance of silly mistake.Even if America does not accept Kashmir as an india territory they will never show srilanka in indian territory. This actually seems to be the mistake of one guy who edited and created this photo.
3) if you see the photograph , it seems the map of india is being uploaded on the pagemaker or any such software , various zones were selcted and colours were filled. This map represent less Diwali more HOLI. EVEN IF YOU EXPAND THE PHOTOS YOU CAN SEE KASHMIR HIDING IN THE BACK WITH NO COLOUR. IF THIS WOULD BE A REAL PHOTO THEN EITHER THE WHOLE KASHMIR WOULD HAVE BEEN DELETED FROM PHOTO BY NASA OR IT HAS BEEN MADE INVISIBLE . U CAN IDENTIFY BOTH CASES.
I hope you will not mind My observation.
Regards,
Rahul Vijay