Winter Season.....Festival season....??

dhin tang dhitang dhin tang dhitag...dhoopp dhooph dhiip dhiip .....chhic chhic chii these are the decibels in air ... As the rain bids goodbye, winter says hiii ....and so does the FESTIVE season with Ganesh festival which lasts for 10 days.

All creative minds of various Mandals erect Pandals for Ganeshji with various themes and decoration in Pune, these are open for all to view and appreciate. Its amazing to see the creativity of the artists. Societies and residential complex organise many activities to socialize like fancy dress,Ek minute antakshari dance performance etc etc (whatever tv shows they are inspired with..I remember the KBC days too...so..basically anything) women call each other for haldi kum kum ( I attended 1 yesterday), attend aarti's (the aarti will be byheart by the last day :0)). Its fun.
After ganesh festival we will have Navratri and Dassera...which wud again be full of fun and dance. We dance till we drop...(its good time for the young lovers too, all the romance blossoms here ...he he he he),
After dassera will be Diwali ..The festival of Lights, The Festival of Nerolac & Asian Paints, The festival to tuck in lots of calories, The festival of fireworks.
Its amazing to see even after so many years the reliving of welcoming Lord Ram back to his kingdom being performed..(Such thing can happen only in I N D I A).

Hardly the calories consumed would be shedding that we here christmas carols and see Santa on the main streets distributing sweets.. My friend invites us home and we tuck in calories (read as lot of cake) again :).

Then will come the new years eve....lot of partying , dancing roaming on streets and wishing each other at midnight (in modern age...with the cell phones net congestion too), then will be Lodhi or Sankranti, 'tilgul ghya god god bola' time which will be followed by the festival of colors....Holiiiiiiiiiiiiii, and then my birthday.

By this time summer is on its way. All the festivals are over..of course some chintuk pintuk festivals are there in summer or rains, but these are the main ones.

On similar lines if we think of USA , even they have festivals in winter starting from the Independence day, followed by ThanksGiving then Halloween, Christmas and New Year.

Have u ever wondered why do all these festivals come up just in winter.

P.S: Monday is 'Ganesh immersion' , making it a long weekend........am gonna immerse myself in the tides of Goa for the weekend.