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Category: Reluctant Hindu

  • Nagarapanchami

    Nagapanchami August 7th 2016 The worship of the snake god happens all over India and other indigenous  cultures. In the Tulu – Malayala region it is very vibrant since it is essentially the snake territory. We have the cult of Nagamandala, the Nagapatri and other folk rituals which tell the stories connecting nature-animal-man.  Most families…

  • Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    The first day of the brand new calendar year is  an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find ones own life charged emotionally with refined energy and enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and rules of the game called LIFE. Today is the onset of new…

  • 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…