Durga Puja 2009

another durga puja is over.... if i am right, this was the 21st durga puja of my life and i celebrated it with the same zeal and enthusiasm as for the 20 before this one.although many of my friends were missing this time, and they had their own silly excuses for not making it to home this time, but that perhaps made me spend more time with my parents.as far as my grey cells work, this was some 4-5 years later that i once again went out with my mom and dad for the regular puja parikrama on almost every day of puja this time. the RADHA MADHAV MANDIR puja, thats the closest to my house had erected a superb idol of godess durga, which truly reflected her power..!

the puja started with saptami and i had a very bad start as for me, some indigestion caused serious problems on the first morning of puja.the evening i spent at the aforesaid place watching the very famous "dhunuchi naach".

the next day ashtami, started for me with pushpanjali and the evening was dedicated to my friends with whom i had a nice time galloping the local pandals.

navami has always the usual meaning for me... nice food as after almost 8 days of eating vegetarian food, we had a nice feast in the house and believe me, the mutton was awesome..!

come dashami and the morning generates a feel in you that the long awaited durga puja is finished..!

starting the day with writing durga naam on mango leaves, watching mom n other married women from locality play holi with sindoor and ending it with friends, u already start to miss the last 4 days....

really durga puja was over with cries of "asche bochor aabar hobe..!!"

here is a picture of the durga puja i am talking about....

review: 2 states

just read chetan bhagat's new novel which is called '2 states'. the book looks good(i wont call it awesome as i did in the case of the previous 2 novels and later got thrashing), but believe me, its awesome.i would really love to know if it is really all what happened to him and his wife before their marriage.as usual, his language is his best tool which at some places fills up the voids in the story.funny as ever,at some instances he makes u laugh your heart out.moreover i got the feeling that it is a continuation of his debut novel FPS, though the characters in the two novels aren't same.
it is quite well known that FPS was'nt fully a work of fiction as chetan tried to make his own college life story a base before adding the masala in it.
2 states is by far chetan's best effort since FPS and to me, it is like one of those light mood hindi movies that you would love to watch with a few cups of coffee and a bucket of popcorn not including the usual tissues for a change.... :)

welcome back

finally i am back again...posting after a year and a half n that too i felt like posting when i felt really angry upon a set of people.
well..recently i was going back home on my diwali vacations and faced a unique situation.was on a bus, going to catch another, had an hour at hand and was stuck in a 2 kilometer long traffic jam!
could you just imagine a situation worse than this..?
anyways yours truly was on a clear cut mood not to miss his bus back home and took some very bold decisions(which included walking almost a km with my heavy bag on my shoulder) and thankfully, finally got my bus..
i think there must be anyone else cursing the person responsible for this more than me.. our great politician miss mamata banerjee.she and her unique ways,this time she decided to call on roadblocks on several points and removed all the grease from the wheels of the city.many people cursed her, many even praised her(maniacs) but i felt like %#@###*^&..... u guessed it right.... ;)
india and its politicians....could not stop me from going home on diwali....!!