Dadhich Uvaach

So after a huge success of the last post  (before anybody protests, let me remind "success means different things to different people") and enormous public demand (I have the gift to read people's unexpressed thoughts) and having survived the TOUGH fast I am back with the part 2 of the Fasting and Feasting in Singapore. Let me start from where I left in the previous post. I slept with all my mind and house filled with the delicious aromas of the fasting dishes and happily dreamed eating those one-by-ones tastefully with the divine rhythmic chants of  Har Har Mahadev . In the morning, I was getting ready for the office when Amisha casually asked me about the address of the Lord Shiva temple so that she and her friends can visit the temple later. I will leave it to the Cricket connoisseurs to declare it a "clean-bowled" or a "stumped" as even after spending one-and-a-half years here, I have no clues about the whereabouts of "orthodox" sacred ...

Once you leave India, you leave many a things behind, a lot many in fact, which you keep missing every now and then. One such thing is the joy of celebrating festivals. In India, you know for weeks in advance which festival is coming up, the exact dates and times of pooja , the exact items needed for pooja and upvaas and start preparing for it leisurely. But in Singapore, it has happened to us many a times that we just called our parents or relatives to discover that they are busy celebrating some festival and we in Singapore have no clue about it. So, this time Amisha was quite conscious to not miss any of the teej-tyohaars and celebrate them in the best possible way in Singapore. She was doing quite well, but as it happens, she declared it on the night of 11th Feb, in her usual last-minute-but-cool-down-dude way, that we are celebrating Mahashivratri tomorrow. We will just need to fast for the whole day and pay a visit to a Shivji temple. Now, whoever has ever "casually...