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Blogs That I Follow.

  • http://navallanga.blogspot.com
  • News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
  • Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
  • News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
  • Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
  • Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Of Ceremonial Functions.




I had attended an 80TH birthday celebration of an aunt of mine recently.The son of the aunt had arranged a number of functions for this celebration.Of these the concluding day function was Bhagavat seva.Though it was called colloqually that it was actually 'Bhagavathi" seva as the invocation was for the Devi.

I liked this pooja very much as the decoration around the lamp on which Devi is invoked was superb.Of course the format followed is usually the 'Sri Chakra' figure done with Rangoli powders or kumkum and turmeric powders with flowers in abundence with a new sari wrapped around.

I see in these functions relationships getting renewed and the underlying sense of the "we" of the family.Perhaps that is what the westerners miss when family does not get recognition there.

Jayamala.
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