Category: Reluctant Hindu

  • footprints on the sand.

    #Sadasexy https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=nft-m45r6I4 what is the “Kasam” I want my husband to take… well none. For promises, are lot like impressions the second one does not really count for much. The moment you make someone promise anything it is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. Let us assume, that I ask for…

  • The Discarded Gods

      mornings I am rushing to Vasco, for classes at MES College, but since the drive is beautiful and I belong to generation that has to be 5mnts ahead of appointment I leave home a little early. I get off at chicalim take the local to zuarinagar and walk down. The bus-stop at chicalim used…

  • A little light on Deepavali.

    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…

  • Saddula Bathukamma

    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…

  • Bathukamma@Durgashtami.

    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…

  • Bombe Habba@ Navaratri.

    Bombe Habba@ Navaratri.

    Naada Habba, the land gets festive, the triumph of the Durga over Mahishasura Mardini, this was what navaratri meant to me, it meant the best of music Kutcheri, the vibrant classical dance festival, visiting friends to see the doll display. most important the ten days of holidays. Navratri is back and it is rather sad…