Durga Pooja - Panchami.

Panchami  

       Winter is on its way. It is incredible to see the time fly away, as if I blink my eyes and a day passes by – another blink – the month changes. October has completed its first week with periodic threats of heavy rains. The nip in the air can be already felt and it gets keener and intense till finally the sweaters and blankets are out. The term “moderate” for the weather in the city seems obsolete, now everything occurs in extreme, may it be rains, heat or the chill – everything!

       However the biting cold months ahead brings a lot of festiveness along with them.

       The Navaratri is about to begin. Nine days for Ma Durga, Garba for Gujaratis, Dhak and Dhunachi naach for the Bengalis and finally the Dussera – Ravan Wadh – for all, however when talking about Incredible India and its unity in diversity, it would be fair enough to simply say Navratri for all!

        Sometimes I wonder how sublime as well as eccentric, it is to experience the fact that we Indians get along so well and soberly with each other irrespective of the creed and culture we follow.

       Festivals remark an enthralling and subtle mix of our cultures, ascents, attires, cuisines and compatibility. So don’t get surprised if you find a South Indian win a Garba competition or a Maharashtrian perform Dhunuchi naach – it is possible in India.

A  boy performing Dhunuchi naach.

         The crisp of new clothes, glitter of the spectacular decors, flamboyance of the happy faces, with smiles ranging from one ear to another, explicates the resplendency of crazy Indian fairs; yes it is amazing and amusing. Festivals bring us together and keep us together.

    Amidst all the Zest and Happenings, I’m sitting here, in my tiny and absolutely unperturbed room with my lappy on my lap and accounting notebook besides, waiting for that fortunate stroke of serendipity when hesitation to study would vanish, the targets would be completed and I would find myself in the Pooja Mandap listening to the uproar of Dhank and indulging in the mesmerization of the smoke, smell and view of Dhunuchi naach. However this seems a bit impossible because here I’m busy blogging pointlessly and obsessively. Always it has been so - since years – unchanged, the clash of the dates of exam and Durga Pooja or commencement of exams right after it. It is exasperating.  Later Arj.