Dussehra symbolizes the win of good over evil
For the first time in last two years, we went out in the occasion of Dussehra or Vijayadashami. It was good to see people are no more worried about Covid to celebrate this occasion. Unfortunately, the rain is the spoiler this time, though it was little better in the morning. We visited few places to see the decorations, and started with the nearby place.
After seeking the blessings here and taking the prasad, went to see another famous pandal, which was a little far. I was not expecting a lot of crowd, as we went during the day time. Usually the crowd is huge in the evening, because of very beautiful light decorations. But I was wrong.
If you see that left most road in this picture, its full of vehicles expanding more than a mile. That too, when it ideally should have been have only few cars. So instead of entering that road, we decided to move on straight on the highway over-bridge and see it from the top.
Then we moved on to the next nearest celebration, which was almost similar in look and feel, but a miniature version.
Apart from the beautiful decoration, the other interesting item to see was the moving Sudarshana Chakra, which you can see in the video. Definitely some contribution of technology there. Moving on to the next stage, that was a GOLD CLASS presentation.
These are all real silver and gold - if you think, these are cosmetic. Every year, they add values to their asset, in a planned manner to add more gold. And isn't the workmanship beautiful ? So many people would have worked on this for last few months.
This being at the center of the Capital city, there were crowd coming in from every corner. And I am sure, because of the weather, you see only this many people, else it would have been easily 20x of what you see. And they will be definitely there by evening.
The small boy has a bigger responsibility on his shoulder.
And that Ferries wheel brings a lot of memories - even today I enjoy it. My daughter loves it as well, in fact only she and me sit, my son and my wife are scared. But they were very hungry and did not like to walk before eating, so we tried to find out a place to eat.
I never thought, it would be so competitive to get some foods. We had to wait for more than 30 minutes to get a seat and then another 30 minutes before we got it served on the table. The food was not up to expectation, but that is what happens, when demand increases.
And you know what happens after eating food 😀, they wanted to go home and take rest after doing a little shopping at a very nearby H&M shop.
And this was all the fun, but then the morning was quite busy with the vehicle Puja. I have posted about that tradition earlier, so will share the pics this time. I choose to do a face lift of the car, by going to a nearby servicing center and this post is part of my google review : https://goo.gl/maps/eZ8sgmZr2h3Yq6DA8. It was an amazing experience and I will go back for a engine detailing service. As its getting older, it needs more care !!
My daughter did lot of help to get this done, and that is how they learn these traditions. Hopefully, Vijayadashami will bring in all good news for all of us.
And the festival is celebrated in mega way in the adjacent city of Cuttack, which is a cultural heritage. Feel free to enjoy some nice captures in this thread :
