Shapu - Always lost in memory lanes...

  India is changing…. MERA DESH BADAL RAHA hai...   already changed a lot !!   Before I go forward, I request my dear readers to please take this in a positive spirit and am sure that someone OR so many will tell me alternatives to the issues I am discussing.   However, I am fully aware of them, but would like to put the facts … is the sole purpose of this write up.   As you all know I am currently based in Karnataka and staying in a place called Saidapur near Raichur.   This is my home away from home for last 6 months.   Last week travelled from Pune with a big baggage as Navratri is approaching and we all follow fasting (change of food you can say), then also perform some religious rituals to pray Goddess Nav Durga in all her forms on the the 10 days.   I have written a big write up on how the Navratri festival is celebrated in my family, if anyone is willing to read, can forward the same OR you can refer it on my blog http://shapu2021.b...

 I lost my larger Oxygen cylinder….. Miss you Raju Srivastav !! While you survive, live a happy healthy life there are multiple factors around which support you directly indirectly.  We all have born, grown and brought up in a small places and have witnessed the rural life around us.  We never exposed to the advanced culture those days.  Initially, Radio was the only way of entertainment at home, but we have had loads of restrictions on it even.  Only a senior generation was allowed to listen “Binaca” geetmaala on Wednesdays and other late evening musical programs. It was exclusively meant for the Akashwani news at various time points in the day.  Days have passed and TVs have come in (initially black and white boxes – Onida and Optronix and so on).  Then it was an era of colour TVs and from Surabhi and other popular shows have been replaced with multi cultured serials of various regional languages and the era changed.  We belong to a region where...

 एक अनोखे आणि कुतूहलात्मक गौरी पुजन खरं तर हल्ली या सोशल मीडियावर गौरी या विषयी इतकं काही लिहून झालंय की विचारूच नका. श्रध्दा, नाती गोती, कौटुंबिक सोहळे, या निमित्ताने आमच्या भगिनींची होणारी धावपळ, देखावे, गौरींची विविध रूपे, दर कोस दर मजल तिच्या साजरे करण्याच्या पद्धती. माझ्या हाती आलेले सर्व लेख मी आवर्जून वाचतो अन या सणाच्या निमित्ताने होणाऱ्या अनेक गंमती जमती, प्रसंग आणि सश्रद्ध भावनेतून केल्या गेलेल्या सणाची महती आणि त्याचं प्रासादिक फळ हे सर्व अनुभवायला मिळतं.  काही लेख वाचताना तर मला असं ही वाटून गेलंय की ही जणु काही आपलीच कहाणी आहे की काय.   पण आज मी एका आगळ्या वेगळ्या गौरीपूजनाविषयी लिहिणार आहे.  आमचे एक स्नेही, मित्र आणि सर्वांचे लाडके श्री मुकुंद गोस्वामी आणि सौ. नभा मुकुंद गोस्वामी यांच्या घरच्या गौरीपूजनाविषयी.  गेल्या वर्षी एक सुंदर गौरी चा फोटो मी मुकुंद च्या स्टेटस ला पाहिला अन आश्चर्यकारक रित्या त्याला विचारले अरे हा फोटो कसला, तर तो अगदी सहज म्हणाला ही आमची लक्ष्मी / गौरी आणि हे आमचे पुजन. त्या फोटोविषयी थोडेसे - आकर्षक लाल रंगाच्या साडीत ...