During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
This one is the Ganpati from our colony - The Chedda Nagar Ganpati.
While the decor is usually something quite...well, ...just decorative, this year, the young lot organizing the festival seem to have had some interesting ideas..... not really surprising, considering the kind of issues on at the moment.
The idea is a balance between development and the environment, as depicted by the scales behind the Ganesha
On the left is the typical skyline of Mumbai - with skyscrapers and factories, complete with the roads built over the sea..
On the right is a typical village scene....
All in all, a simple display, one which suggests no solutions, but better than the usual run of the mill decorations... Samhith loved the houses and the roads, and has come up with lots of ideas for Navaratri!!!
While the decor is usually something quite...well, ...just decorative, this year, the young lot organizing the festival seem to have had some interesting ideas..... not really surprising, considering the kind of issues on at the moment.
The idea is a balance between development and the environment, as depicted by the scales behind the Ganesha
On the left is the typical skyline of Mumbai - with skyscrapers and factories, complete with the roads built over the sea..
On the right is a typical village scene....
All in all, a simple display, one which suggests no solutions, but better than the usual run of the mill decorations... Samhith loved the houses and the roads, and has come up with lots of ideas for Navaratri!!!
Festival wishes...
ReplyDeleteThey really get creative and its so wonderful to see these themes, visit the pandals and be a part of the festivities ...
ReplyDeleteHappy Ganesh Chaturthi:)