badi mushkil se use waapas laaya thaa ! now deepu is back in hyderabad : ( .. these last days of puttur would get this lonely ... i never thought. Anyway with a lot of time at hand i m trying to do some proactive work before i leave this place. A wonderful place it has been and during the rains it is a different world all together. We would both be missing it this monsoon. I m now spending most of the time with memories of those wonderful days.
Summer is slowly catching up in puttur (the typical coastal weather) but the only solace being things getting much worse in many other parts of the country. This part of the year is also filled with festivities here... especially the "jaathraas" and all these conclude before the monsoon. The last one being the Puttur Mahalingeshwara Jaathra... beginning today and concluding on the 17th night... and the last night is a not-to-be-missed event. More than a lakh of people gather to pull the chariot amidst a spendid display of state-of art- fireworks. People in this part of the country are very orthodox, pride their culture, language(thulu), folk arts (yakshagaana) ... and hold their festivities in the same granduer that they were being held a few hundred years ago, in addition to being highly literate and economically very progressive. If i m still hanging around here for the jaathra... i'll bring u some pictures of that sea of humanity.
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Thanx for your comment...... i wish that he'd come back too.
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