Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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Who changed me…
My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” … Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to…
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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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creating a serene home to invite comfort.
I am listening to my friend’s to client she is detailing her plans for carpets, curtains, she had images of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. i wondered about her partner, and if she had done the same with him/her, drape the person over a…
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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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Bathukamma@Durgashtami.
Sometime back I was researching the nature related festivals in southern India. The floral tributes of Onam ruled the roast, somewhere between the lots I found a lesser known festival of Telangana One very interesting festival I came across was called the Bathukamma, and it is celebrated in the state of Telangana. This is a…
