Another noisy neighbourhood temple festival. Indicates the convergence of enough followers of yet another village God, all of whom couldn't afford to go back to their village for regular festival. Individual economic necessity and collective insensitivity ensures mindless excessive noisy ugly festival. Fireworks indicate the arrival of the corrupt local politician that exploits the inability of someone to go home with easy money. The priest chants whenever the recorded music stops, must be well paid. The neighbourhood men await eagerly the end of the day cinema music singing troupe concert when wild drunken revelry is accepted as part of divine experience and hired impoverished traditional dancers are humiliated in their poverty to dance in the roads as part of the night long procession. God within awaits this new tamasha to subside so as to resurface.
we are all capable of small moments of insights that raise questions beyond the daily work situations...here we share some of these. moments of satori