imagine our very own bagh bazar is having a street festival with an entrance fee of rupees 300.. how will they man all the gullies leading to bagh bazar? anyway this is how it looked last night
and yesterday we had kukur puja. we lined up the dogs with the bait of an omlette each to sit through the puja
truly every kukur does have its day!
laxmi puja afternoon and muwa is preparing the puja sama for the evening's puja
while i am in the kitchen baking cake.. part of the bhai tika treat for dajis
meanwhile priya and aakash were making laxmi ko paila. pretty neat joint venture it was with him making the sole and she the toe prints!
guiding laxmi the way home to the joshi coffers
time for aarati
even ghantaghar was dressed for the evening
after the puja
waiting for dinner
then the crackers begin.. priya makes a perfect O
and then does an approximation
amar and tulasa make jilebis
bhunchampa and jhirjhirey
priya does a snake
and zooms to the window to show mami and muwa and baba who did not venture out into the cold (made chillier by the weird afternoon thunderstorm)
tulasa's turn
ganga with her jhirjhirey while the twirly wirly seems to be burning itself into a spider!
then it was time for asking for bhaili from the elders inside. we danced and we sang and sang and sang
finally muwa's khajanchi appeared at the window...
jyoti arrived right then with deepak babu
and even had some fun with jhirjhirey
inside the room we tried to extort some more money from the elders singing ourselves hoarse... baba offered us to take his kurta
finally we got a topping on the initial bhailo!
outside patakas were going on like crazy (shows we are out of the conflict now!) and kutu had his ears up and his tail tucked in
annochh didn't seem to mind.. probably didn't hear anything old dog that he is... munu was hiding under the bed
jyoti tries to fathom miss moti
mami was feeling fagged out
a little bit of tihar cheer!
