From "Koel toh puro chom chom Durga" by the random phuchkawala outside the doctor's chamber at Mahalaya to the endless plans, dressing up, meeting people after ages, anjalis, late late late, bhog, checking the kartiks of the crowd and what not! Pujo is almost over and off I go ghurte. And just in case I die, Remember Me =P
and somewhere I am not very happy about not being able to do the boi chhoyano this time although the sudden dark neighbourhood at ekadoshi after the timely and untimely brightness during pujo is depressing.
And while I go, I shall miss.

Neither the best of times nor the best of health

But

MAHALAYA works like Magic!

“Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala
Bura Na Milya Koi
Jo Mann Khoja Aapna
Toh Mujhse Bura Na Koi”

There was once a time during the growing up years of blame games when I first heard this ‘doha’ from Maa and I need not mention that she explained the meaning too. I never, as a matter of fact NEVER read/ wrote Hindi except for the three exams at school every year. Maa always read out the stories that were there in the syllabus the day before exam and THUS I still have no idea of whether to use the “Badi e” or “Chhoti e” in whichever spelling.

 Having a Mamabari at Madhya Pradesh made me over confident about my Hindi skills, I never cared to read things myself and thus the spellings always pulled my marks down. (But to the person who thinks ‘pheeka’ is stale, I knew and still know MORE of Hindi :D )

So as I was saying, Mahalaya is almost here, Momma is on a super cleaning spree AGAIN! :@
From somewhere came out this book of “Kabir k Dohe” and I reread the only ‘doha’ that I know absolutely correctly.

“If you need someone to blame
Throw a rock in the air
You'll hit someone guilty ”

And if you just thought this post is about something concrete and leading to something even more concrete. Bleh :P

To Life... AMEN!