Durga Pooja

The festival season has started…Durga Pooja last day celebrations are here. So i had to pay a visit with my Baangali friends. This whole thing is new to me. It was pretty different.

All Baangalis were there. (O yeah what should I expect in Durga poojo ..thats how they say). We already started going rounds before we could enter the temple. Bcos of parking problem all cards were forced to park in bike lane. It seems its customary to donate some money to gods hundi and SJC PDs coffer. You have to get 2 tickets - one poojo ticket and another parking fine ticket.

Then we said hello to god, chanted some slokas in Baangali  and had prashad and preet bhoj (i would call full meals). Atmosphere was like family reunion rather than the usual pray-to-god-fearfully-and-get-out feeling in south india.