Festivals and celebrations
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the tradition of bringing home an idol of Lord Ganesh or Ganpati for a ten day festival. The idea was to foster a sense of community and nationalism with skits, bhajans and motivational and spiritual discourse . Today the celebrations have changed with political sponsorship and Bollywood colouring the idea of… Read more
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Today is Parsi New Year and Wow Dinga and Little Po are home as their schools are closed for this very special holiday. The Parsis, as we all know are originally from Iran. They landed in Sanjan as a boat load of people wanting to escape persecution, looking for a place where they could… Read more
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Yipee! I’ve made it to a WOW Post after a long long time The three stages of love Valentine’s it seems has become a very Indian festival. Yesterday, I was walking down the road behind two houseboys and couldn’t help overhearing their conversation. One boy told the other that he was going to ask for… Read more
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