Posts Tagged ‘Ravana’
An incongruous Halloween this year
This year has progressed at a breakneck speed and I am catching myself unprepared every day. Halloween felt equally unprepared. Imagine a politically charged year with the election day less than a week away. Then imagine trick o’ treating, which has struggled in the aftermath of pandemic. Add to it the fact that the day coincided with Diwali, a festive and vibrant festival of lights. The incongruity of it all added to the confusion, I wasn’t quite sure how to celebrate.
But I was determined to improve upon last year. I watched Babish eat and rank 60 candies (link) to rank his personal favorites. Last minute scouring the web for four of his favorites, we managed to get our hands on nerds and sour patch. Result, the kids declared our house, the best house ever. Check.
I scrambled last minute to set up the decorations. After racking my brain between Halloween and Diwali, I decided to go on a tangent with Buddhist prayer flags. Check.
Who moved my wife? – Ramlila in New Delhi.
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In 300 BCE, it is said, lived a thief, a kind of a highway robber called Valmiki. One day he tried to rob a sadhu, a wandering holy man, who had nothing to offer him so he gave him a mantra ‘Mara’. When Valmiki , in his distracted moments chanted it, he realised he was not saying mara-mara-mara but rama-rama-rama and that’s when he decided to write down the story of Lord Rama into an epic called Ramayana.
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