Deepavali, the festival of lights
switched off lately was enchanting like each year with dose of firecrackers,
sweet, snacks and sharing... even I felt little lonely this time, the memories
caught up with fire of previous years of delight, cherished. The day began for
me as usual except the constant roar of bombs which kick started the explosion earlier
than the allotted period (between 6am-10pm) to blast firecrackers; it’s
impossible to imagine a Deepavali without noise of cracker... but maybe one day
mind set to appreciate the silence on Diwali.
The day was
spent partially in front of the television watching those advertisements and
special programs that flashed in-between, but the interesting part was the ‘Pattimandram’
(poet’s discussion) on who helps a lot – younger ones or elder ones, in general
and the speakers were all well brought up the points at discussion with a lot
of sensible humor. It’s good to see many younger ones joining the discussion latterly
and they all draw a greater attention and develop an interest towards their
attitude on Tamil and discussion.
Like every
year, the neighbors shared the happiness by distributing sweets and snacks,
prepared by them or bought from the shop; I enjoyed tasting them all at great
zeal and we also shared the traditional sweet and snacks – Athirasam and
Murukku – made by mom, to cheers the festival spirit. I sent few SMS to friends
as wishes and called out one of my best friend from Tirunelveli and it is
something we usually do during either of our festivals and it was wonderful
talking to him as well his mom who is so beloved and heart full of blessings
for others.
It was a day I
haven’t touched the laptop and switched off the television sometime after the
noon and in the company of boom, mind took backspace for a moment triggering the
roll cap memories and time spent together with kith and kin. In the evening we
left to our grandma’s sister house for lighting some firecrackers and they live
in Neelankarai – the down south of Chennai, and they hold much space for leaving
fireworks and the area itself beholds a lot of firework display during Deepavali
give me some wonderful opportunity to capture the colorful sky.
We spent more
than an hour watching the various Arial outs bursting into the sky and illuminating
the moonless night into many twinkling lights and radiant colors, which was a
remarkable sight ones in a year. I well know its disadvantages and noise and environment
pollution but I couldn’t stop myself enjoying the display of fireworks and this
time I got a wonderful camera to shoot much pretty photos.
Will post more
on the firework display later...