Deepawali's Greetings!!!

May this Deepawali, the festival of lights, bring more joy, peace and prosperity to you & your family and the world we live in.

Some Passing thoughts:-

Over the years, Deepawali enthusiasm is changing or I am getting older? Probably both....

After a long hectic day in office (added 1 hr in traffic for commuting back to home) , we wished to buy some thing at the eve of Dhanteras. Good part was that the gold shop keeper was not willing to entertain people who was asking for any thing in silver make. All the shop keeper employees were entertaining customer who was asking for gold coins. I too waited for 20 min and decided to leave the shop without purchasing any thing for Dhanteras pooja, Just thought we shall pray and do the pooja without any new items.

After the Dhanteras-Pooja with my family, I slipped in to childhood memory and realized that how things are changed in last 25 yrs.... or more in last 10 yrs.

I remember when we were there in Railway Qtrs, every year we use to have white wash through the railway department and we use to pay for powder distemper for living room and rest of our house use to be painted with "Choona + Neel". Kids used to do the cleaning all the old stuffs of house what parents use to assign them, then comes the charms of decorating the house. At present most of us we go for high end enamel paints and house doesn't required to be painted for 4-5 yrs. Stuffs are parked in over head lofts. I miss the freshness of every year white wash, though I can not afford also.

For sweets, we rely completely to Karthik sweets wala since this shop is behind our house and quality is OK. No more making sweets & namkeen at home. No involvement of kids in sweet making too. Again what kids are missing the involvement and I feel guilty. How can I pass on values of "team a family", if we do not do all these things.

Now in bhagam bhag zindagi my wife doesn't forget the following: doing pooja with family on these occasions also creating some excitements in Kids which is needed very much, otherwise there wouldn't be any difference in normal day and the day like Deepawali!!!!!

Once again wishing you a happy and safe Deepawali !!!