The DIWALI Dhamaka...

I woke up early in the morning due the hue and cry raised by the maid. No, it wasn't because she had broken mom's favorite crystal piece and nor was it because she wanted a hike of salary. It was because of her announcement of leave for a week during Diwali. Such proclamations hit you best when they are made early in the morning when you are not even out of bed. Suddenly it dawned to us that Diwali...umm, THE Diwali was approaching! Besides the wonderfully smiling lights in the house, loads of eatables, and numerous of free gifts (sometimes on purchase worth Rs. 10,000/-), there is an altogether another scenario to this otherwise gleeful festival.

Dressing up like nomads right from the morning and extending a hand of help to parents is not an easy task to be done! It includes setting up of an entire 'workshop' of things required to do the cleaning, shifting of household stuff from one place to other (which is usually expected from a 20 year old boy), and cleaning up your own personal room before anything else (after all charity begins at home..umm, room...). As soon as Mom starts going hysterical about the dilatoriness of the young generation, you rush towards your room to attempt cleaning it yourself, to save it from being raided by her. After all, she would never understand the importance of old CDs, numerous types of chargers of different kinds of devices, and the significance of entangled wires (which sometimes we ourselves forget) in our wired lives.

But such the is the magic and miracle of these beings called "Moms", that we always happen to lose this battle and at the end of the day we are happy to see the results, when the Living room actually finds its literal meaning. Diwali is definitely an eventful festival and more than just those five days, it covers almost a month of our year.  The house resembles a battlefield with all the weapons of mass 'construction' piled up in a corner right now, which would soon end up being lighted beautifully expressing the delight on the return of Lord Ram... :)

Every person in this world needs to see an Indian Diwali before dying. This is after all, just a beginning to this beautiful festival. A lot is there to come, including my blog posts on this amazingly awesome festival...

Adios! :)