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.. yet again! I think I stopped counting anymore the number of festivals I've been missing over the past few years. But you cannot really avoid Diwali. Can you? It is something special.  Though I was and am not so much into fireworks because our little puppy is scared of them, I still love the feel of the festival surrounding me while everyone else celebrates it.  That is what we miss here. Fireworks happen only on New Year's. And if we hear them any other time, we have to look through the news to know why and where it happened. We still do have a small Indian community that does the fireworks on Diwali, if permitted. We feel a lot of country-sick rather than home sick during festivals. Just to avoid this, instead we dress up, meet at events, have loads of food and do some fun. Ahh that festive food back home.. how much I miss it! I can't even..! This is the story of our lives.   Happy Diwali everyone! Coming to the outfit, this lehenga is a gift from my neph...

"Dance can be a profession, it can lead to stardom. Of course it can. But it can also be a process of meditation. It can be therapeutic. It can be a way to grapple with our own inner fears and demons. It can be a purely physical endeavour. It can be a purely mental journey. It can be a self-realisation of one’s cultural roots. It can lead to spiritual fulfillment. Indian classical dance is all this and so much more! Little wonder that even the gods danced in India. They too probably realized that it added value to their bliss in heaven!"                                                                                                                               ...

Is it October?? And Diwali already?? This year is definitely flying by. Its going to end in 2 months and I have got too many things to do and too little time. So nothing much to say except wishing everyone a happy and a safe Diwali! We sure are missing all the festivities in India. But making some time for gatherings with friends and having some delicious home made Indian food. You have fun people! By the way, excuse me for the not-so-focused pictures. I too hate them but you have to live with that when you get bad photographers in your life. And when some photographer is better than having no photographer.

T his is what I started feeling half an hour before the end of the World Cup 2011. Usually I don't watch these matches so regularly and this is the first match I watched in the World Cup 2011. :) Good that I watched and I could feel the awesome feeling of winning.. Our guys rocked.. It is such a great feeling for everyone in the country and proud to be Indians.. Bleeded BLUEEE.. Love you guys!! GG played so well and I am liking him right now :P  BTW, Happy Ugadi to all.. I am missing this festival this time.. I love the foodie thing we make on this day (sweet+salt+sour+bitter).. my mom will prepare all these things :(  Pria...

i always wanted to be in the US for the christmas eve.. i felt lucky to be here this yr.. dnt knw but i m sumhow attached to this festival.. even in India i luv visiting churches, my frens place to see their decorations, christmas tree n al.. so i thot i wud hav a grt tym here, may not b wit my frens (as dint plan fr any trips this time) but atleast wit ppl around.. but evrything was quite opposite.. i cud feel the smell of christmas here aftr thanks giving.. as this is the only festival they make here, they all look excited the whole month till the next yr.. all my colleagues made their plans n eagerly waiting fr their trips.. i had to work the whole week as i was the only stand-in left for all of them.. i cud see all busy in getting gifts for loved ones.. my office was decorated aftr thanks giving n it was luking so colorful n pleasant like this.. these r frm my SLR.. i loved these shots.. i clicked these pictures before christmas, the last day when i was all alone in o...

hpy Diwali 2 all.. wish u lots n lots of fun wit crackers, sweets, family, frens.. blast out ur diwali.. dnt think to stop polluting the environment n al.. dnt bothr ppl saying stop polluting n start saving.. thr r so many othr ways 2 save earth.. if u agree wit thm, they wil soon ask us 2 stop driving.. so hav fun n an audible diwali.. :) n do take care.. luv.. Pria :) P.S: Picture by Pria's SLR :)

We all celebrated our Ganesh chathurdhi with so much fun, devotion & love towards god.. but it is painful to see that we trash the same god.. a n  email i received and thot it would be worth sharing..  this is the situation we see after 11days of the festival.. Is this.. IDOL  worship ? IDLE  worship ? or IDEAL  worship ?  The Day after ..    Would you like your Gods bulldozed like garbage? or dumped like this? and treated like this ??  left to rot for scavengers to feast ...     ? Lying at your feet... Helpless.. Abandoned by worshipers! Maimed ? Desecrated ? And you create a hue and cry when some  statue  in your city gets 'desecrated' ? You burn down busses and call for bandhs ? Was that statue a GOD, OR Is this GOD  only a Statue  ? You decide.   Wake Up ! This is our GOD ! unfortunately, i cud nt save my God..

hi guys.. happy Ganesh Chathurdhi n Ramadan.. hope u all had gr8 festivals.. i knw it will b fun making puja, reading out mantras n story of ganesh jhi, having lots n lots of sweets, watching movies n all.. my mom sometimes used to make me read out the story.. n it was all a fun coz we were never been able to read properly coz its in our mother tongue n it wud be like some tongue twister.. :) this time i gave chance to my cousin.. i still remember whn we were kids, we used to go around our colony 2 see all the statues n collect prasadams.. :) it was really fun.. missing those days.. :( heres our today's ganesh jhi.. :)   n also Eid Mubharak 2 all..had lots of Haleem this time.. yummmyyyy!!! :)

May god gift U  all the colors of life, colors of joy, colors of happiness, colors of friendship, colors of luv & all other colors u want to paint in ur life. H a p p y H o l i !!

hi bloggers.. wish u al a vry hpy Shivratri.. i think i m late in conveying the wishes coz i m in the US n so the time delay.. :) anyways hope u al cud do fasting n stay awake the whole night?? i knw its difficult.. bt whn i was a kid i cud do al these things n dint feel much difficulty.. we wud go to temple early in the morning n hav some milk or something fr brkfast n my mom wud try to keep us for sometime witout food.. if we cud do we used to continue or if nt as usual stomach ful of lunch n dinner.. :) we were staying in a colony tht time.. in order to keep the ppl awake thr, they used to play movies al the night in an open theatre.. this is the awesome experience for me on Shivratri.. we al cud come early frm skool n get ready to watch those movies.. al the kids in our lane wud go first n keep places for family thr at the theatre.. we used to njoi al these things.. aftr al we r kids.. noone bothers bout us.. they play mo...

I wish all my bloggers a great chilling 'Merry Christmas' n happy holidaying.. !! :)