Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Drab Monotony of Habit

Oh! I’m just tired of this austere routine—study, study, study! Play, play, play! Is there nothing else other than all these? Who likes such a kind of a daily timetable? We have been bound with fetters to our humdrum routine and it is most unlikely to get out of such a mess before reaching a “ripe” age. Sometimes I think of surmounting all barriers and breaking free into the “meadows” of “William Henry Davies”. I can guarantee at least 60 out of 100 would like rid the drab monotony of habit from their lives. (I recall I had already indited earlier on this subject.) Two or more trips to the countryside per month would benefit us a lot rather than sitting in front of the idiot box all day or scratching heads at your workplace or even getting choked in the suffocating atmosphere of the kitchen. Instead, we might be able to have a look into the bucolic side of the world.

Aare life hai to jeeo, khulke jeeo!

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Maha Astami


The day started with my brass hats nagging me to get up; it was already nine when I got up. A "Panjabi" and a "Pyjama" were all that were needed to gather at the Mandap just to deliver the so-called "Pushpanjali". A lousy job for an atheist! The night saw nothing very "isspecial" at the marquee but only the moppets' boogeying at the music being played and cracking the crackers; without much interference of the "gun-powdered cap roll" guns the night spelt serenity.

Nothing much to speak about but "Something" wishes its readers a very happy "Mahashtami"!

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Subho Bijoya

    Subho Bijaya everyone! I earnestly apologize for the post being published quite late on the 3rd day after Bijoya Dashami. The day seemed lachrymose for our fervent believers who could not contain the rolling of tears down their saddened cheeks and had to wipe them off every moment. But they comfort themselves with the thought of the return of Goddess Durga every year, the mother of all Hindu Goddesses. The people, mostly youngsters, accompany Goddess Durga to the immersion site with boisterous celebrations and incessant beating of drums and submerse her with shouts of "Durgs Maiki - Jay" which still keep reverberating through our ears. Atheists too, devote their time to experience the divine delight behind watching the "aratis" and observing all the pertinent décors of the Puja Pandals with their respective families and above all, the statue of Maa Durga. Doing "pranam" to our brass hats and "kolakuli" with our middlings are sine qua nons to Bijoya; fulfilling them is a bit tedious (frankly speaking!).

    ADIEU Maa Durga and sayonara everyone!

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Maha Navami

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    Due to unavailability of time, this post could not be completed J

    Sorry for the inconvenience……..

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Maha Saptami

    Yes, it's the 1st day of the Durga Puja '09! A dreary morning it was with only a few people occupying the Puja marquee. With my friend, I reported there by noon; only to see ten or eleven people lazily occupying the chairs and chatting with each other. Competitions and programmes were conducted at night (although I could not devote much time to watch all those "spectacles"). At night I went to see the "pujas" at Mahananda, Sanhati More and many others. Unlike all other years, this year's Saptami was not that interesting; moreover, I was amazed to see the Puja Mandap having a paucity of "devotees" on which day? That too the25th of September, Saptami!    

This post didn't flow swiftly as such, isn't it? Yes, I could not acquire much things to tell you but I indited what struck my mind.

Waiting to see the Mandap teeming with people on the 26th, Mahastami or Maha Astami.

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