Happy Diwali

A prosperous and happy deepavali .... wished my chittappa when he came home around 4 PM with chitti and my sweet cousin..
we were totally engrossed in the 2nd ODI between india and pakistan..and my other chitappa also came home to celebrate deepavali with us. generally deepavali is celebrated in south with all the family members getting together for the entire day and bursting crackers...and as usual, the day long television shows play spoil sport and on top of it we have the ODI happening in Mohali, do you expect us to move away from the television screeens!!!

All we needed was a brilliant spark.. from someone.. an iota of motivation to move away from the screens and go out and explore the evening.. and it came from my chitti.. she casually mentioned about fireworks show at the triplicane parthsarathy temple and we all were game to go there and watch the spectacle, though we were a little doubtful about the show happening would be continuing till 8 in the night....we all took a chance..

when we reached the temple premises, the utsavar was already at the merku veedi and a huge crowd was already there to watch the fireworks show..
" brilliant, awesome, mind blowing"... no words to explain what we saw..... it was sheer brilliance .. a confluence of religion and modern logistics management.. they made sure than at no point of time during the 6 hours walk of the utsavar around the temple, the sky was without a display of the most expensive fireworks.

we were very close to the firing zone, and we saw the efficiency with which they kept firing the crackers in all directions.. we came to know from one of the vadhyars that the community there spend around 1 Crore of rupees every year just for that one night... my god!!!.. we did not believe it at the beginning.. but u have to see the show to actually believe it ...

it was raining ashes and all of us were covered with potassium, magnesium and what ever that goes in to the making of a cracker..... we stayed there for around two hours and we never had the heart to come out of that place.. though it was expected to continue for two more hours...

a great deepvali.. a great way to end the day.. though it was a great compensation to the grand celebration we had last year when all the five brothers and their family went to srirangam to celebrate the deepavali with my grand ma...

one wishes to do such things every year... but doing it different every times.. makes u want more of deepavali ...

shabaa ippove kanna kattudhe.. mudiyala.. too good.. and i am feeling sooo sleepy as if i was a part of the firing squad.. :)