Along with the vegetation the season has their own specialty of cuisines as well the varied aromas the production of variety of fruits and vegetables in accord with the seasons just enhance the mood, in this pace the festivities also take a toll…
During the long monsoon season we hardly get to celebrate any big festival after Ram Navami which is also termed as untimely puja of Maa Durga or ‘Akaal bodhan’, then the saga of journey by our very known brother sister trios the Jagannath Yatra or the Rath Yatra where Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath takes a hilarious ride on the roads of Puri a city in Odisha along with it almost everywhere it is celebrated with much pomp and valour, then there is a momentary halt the onset of puja’s again starts with the celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi which takes on for 3,5 or 9 days as in INDIA we start every new aspect in our lives with the puja of Shri Ganesha or ‘vighna harta’ or to define it as problem eradicator any occasion will begin only after the worship of this ‘elephant headed’ entity again for this elephant head there is famous story but then that’s a different aspect will talk about it later but then one, are significant thing comes in to dominance by this that we Indians have affinity for every animal as if you see closely and make a research out of it in India we worship from cow to serpents to rodents, to avians and of course other carnivores and herbivores like lion, tiger, elephant etc so all of this points towards our affinity and firm connection towards our genetic makeup, heredity line the DNA codes the lives of our ancestors and that how we are strongly connected through all of this to the ultimate nature the base of just everything…
to be continued…