Category: Rhythm Indiana
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Blame it on Bhaang!
“I’m pledging to #KhulKeKheloHoli this year by sharing my Holi memories atBlogAdda in association with Parachute Advansed.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPMjKIUNGDI Parchute and BlogAdda and media have declared Holi as one of India’s happiest festival. Well, that depends, on Your concept of India Your concept of Happiness. For me Holi is a festival of dread. One reason being it is the…
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A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya
Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…
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A Crappy Affair
World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact…
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A little light on Deepavali.
Banditu deepavali siri sobaganu pasarisi lokava belagutali.– this is a popular kannada poem that translates to Deepavali arrives bringing with it abundance and light. We have been celebrating Diwali in the same age old manner for hundreds of years with crackers, oil sweets, heavy unhealthy food gambling and what not… are we really Sunita I…
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Saddula Bathukamma
https://parwatisingari.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/bathukammadurgashtami/ The ninth day of Bathukamma is also the last day of the festival and is called Saddula Bathukamma. On this day the Bathukamma is immersed into the water. Conical creations of cow dung decorated with flowers is the Bathukamma, this is a folk art. The immersion is done with great devotion, accompanied by rhythmic…
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