I saw a procession outside welingkars today, it was a tamil festival called panguni uthiram. It just stunned the people passing by due to the pearcing done by them on their body.
They were going to walk right upto antop hill. People who have kept a vow keep on joining the procession, they have some puja at shivaji park and later move towards antop hill.
The pearcing done is called kavadi.
The healing from pearcing takes 2-3 days. The mark remains on the face and body. Ther is some white powder put on the place where pearcing is done which comforts them.
Story behind kavadi it is there in the below link.
It is celebrated in many countries around the world.
http://www.sttemple.com/STT/english/thaipusam.asp
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
My trip to Diveagar
Recently we had been to not much know beautiful place called Diveagar. It is a village situated on the bank of the arabian sea. It is filled with coconut trees. Unlike alibaug beach which has lot of big stones which come rolling in the waves, the beach at diveagar is calm and there are hardly any stones rolling.
The entrance to this beach is one of its kind. There are beautiful lush green trees around and in the middle there is one small opening to the beach.
Water though seems muddy and black, it is due to the colour of the sand.
There is a Suvarna ganesha temple in the village.
We didnt had any location in mind just kept on asking the locals of the places we could go. We went to Dighi which is around 30km from here. There is a beautiful port being constructed at Dighi for majorly for exporting Ores.
From Dighi there is a direct motorised boat service to the Janjibar fort. But it runs only after it gets 40 passengers. If we need a special trip then we have to pay 1200 rs. So we were sad that we would not be able to visit the fort. We came to know later that there was a boat service to Rajpuri and from Rajpuri we can go to Janjibar on the cloth boat which runs every 15 min.
We had a good time at the fort. We experienced a good sales pitch by the boat driver cum guide.
The fort is beautiful and there is a logic in each and every construction of the fort. Here I realised that why small children should be accompanied with their parents under strict supervision while visiting such places. A small child in his own mood was running from windows to windows in the fort, when he suddenly realised that this window takes him directly into the sea 50 ft down.
We had a tough time while returning when our car was down in middle of no where. No network. Later we managed to call the mechanic to the site. Spend the entire day at the mechanic garage as the part was not available in the nearby town.
Later at the end of the day we were shocked to hear that the place where our car was down, was the place where maximum accidents took place.
There was a diya pinned on the tree at the site, we didnt realise it then, we said it is illogical, only later to find out from the mechanic.
We praised GOD for the safe journey when we reached home.
A beautiful place. A must visit once if tired from the regular places like matheran, mahabaleshwar.
The entrance to this beach is one of its kind. There are beautiful lush green trees around and in the middle there is one small opening to the beach.
Water though seems muddy and black, it is due to the colour of the sand.
There is a Suvarna ganesha temple in the village.
We didnt had any location in mind just kept on asking the locals of the places we could go. We went to Dighi which is around 30km from here. There is a beautiful port being constructed at Dighi for majorly for exporting Ores.
From Dighi there is a direct motorised boat service to the Janjibar fort. But it runs only after it gets 40 passengers. If we need a special trip then we have to pay 1200 rs. So we were sad that we would not be able to visit the fort. We came to know later that there was a boat service to Rajpuri and from Rajpuri we can go to Janjibar on the cloth boat which runs every 15 min.
We had a good time at the fort. We experienced a good sales pitch by the boat driver cum guide.
The fort is beautiful and there is a logic in each and every construction of the fort. Here I realised that why small children should be accompanied with their parents under strict supervision while visiting such places. A small child in his own mood was running from windows to windows in the fort, when he suddenly realised that this window takes him directly into the sea 50 ft down.
We had a tough time while returning when our car was down in middle of no where. No network. Later we managed to call the mechanic to the site. Spend the entire day at the mechanic garage as the part was not available in the nearby town.
Later at the end of the day we were shocked to hear that the place where our car was down, was the place where maximum accidents took place.
There was a diya pinned on the tree at the site, we didnt realise it then, we said it is illogical, only later to find out from the mechanic.
We praised GOD for the safe journey when we reached home.
A beautiful place. A must visit once if tired from the regular places like matheran, mahabaleshwar.
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I was wondering today as to why typing the above URL was taking me to Shaadi.com, I tried 5-6 times, I cursed Shaadi for hacking my blogspot.....
But later i realised that typing BOLGSPOT instead of BLOGSPOT takes me to the Shaadi.com Site.
Good Marketing trick.
But later i realised that typing BOLGSPOT instead of BLOGSPOT takes me to the Shaadi.com Site.
Good Marketing trick.
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