diwali mubarak

Diwali is my favorite festival and i wish all of u, my dear friends a very very happy and enjoyable year ahead :) May your homes and heart always be filled with the light of love *hugs*

a day at the Durga Puja

October-November are the months of festivals in India. and one of the most important festival in northern and eastern India is the Durga Puja. the little Bengali dominated enclave of C R park is the heart of Durga Puja celebrations in New Delhi, the capital of India and the city i call home :)

Bengali's are the people who take their festivals seriously, with the Puja being their biggest and most important festival. The arrival and stay of Mother Goddess Durga during nine days of Navratri is celebrated in many other parts of the country, but nowhere with this fanfare and
passion.

If you are in Delhi at around this point of time, it is highly recommended that you pack one day of your life visiting different pandals (venues) and pay obeisance to the Goddess. gaily dressed crowds, lots to eat, lots to click and yeah, so much to observe and marvel at, these are the
things that make my Durga Puja celebrations.

hope you'll like a few glimpses of my day in these pics :)


 

my Holi-day at the office

we celebrated holi at the office on Tuesday. i came prepared in the morning itself, wearing a chaka-chak white shirt, waiting all the way for some kid to throw a water balloon or some colors on me before i reach office. but sadly, delhi's kids are not so daring anymore. there is an absolute lack of the holi-spirit in the bylanes of this city now-a-days.

dejected by this lack of application, i kept on working till the early evening when Sanpreet came and suggested that our IT guy Arun is distributing free gulal (dry color) to people who agree to be colored by him. both of us quickly grabbed the opportunity and there started our in-house Holi celebrations. had so much fun after a long time. smeared everybody i knew with colors. by the time i reached home, i was drenched in dry colors!


in the first photo, it is me waiting for some unsuspecting target to go by with Umananda my fellow copywriter being the partner in still unhappenned crime! in the second pic, the holi players gang! from left to right, back row, first a guy i don't know, then Umananda, then me, Deepak - one more of my copy talent, then Ritika, Sabu and the new trainee girl whose name i still don't know! in the front row there is Rajesh, our chai-wallah, then Vipra and then Sanpreet.