ganu...

namaskar,

Tonight will b loud, tonight will b smoky, it will b a drowsy, frenzy, dizzy, crazy night of our GANU'S visarjan... Well poor Ganu would again be traumatised with the blazzzzzing halogens blinding his tiny eyes...Wonder how will he watch his bhakt's worshipping him and look at their problems in life with swollen eyes? ahh and those ear blasting songs "ae ganpat....chal daru la..." and "kombadi palali tangadi dharun langadi ghalaya lagali" on thousand watt stereos, banjos and keyboards. The dhols, dholkis, dholkaas, drums....bands....Grrrrrr.

The 'laxmi bombs,lavangi pataka ladis' will make his huge ears deaf with such high decibals of senseless music. a puuuuuuuuurfect receipe for numbness. And yessssss we wud have to arrange for a skin specialist for our Ganu for his sensitive dermacare rashed with all the gulal and ettars and heavy gold n silver ornaments...tones of silk draped around and yessssssss not to forget heaps of flower garlands on him...i just pray he does not get allergic to pollens all of a sudden.

Ofcourse not to forget the gastro intestinologist for curing the poor mans upset stomach after gobbling trillions and zillions of modaks, pedhas and mithais.... Does he understand the importance of choosing fruits over the sweet prasad offered to him? And we shudnt forget to keep an oxygen cylinder handy just incase he gets a respiratory problem due to inhaling the smoke from lakhs of agarbattis, dhups, fire crackers, diyas Etc.

We like to check Ganu's patience with the slow traffic, changed routes street blocking pandals and no entry boards. Even after being our favourite deity, he isnt spared from standing in a loooong que for thevisarjan.

And post operative care after the visarjan in order to carefully dispose off the remnants of our dear ganus memories... uff.... so much for the 11 days of worship.....let me call my nutritionist to take an appointment for my ganu to keep him on a diet and also take a gym membership for him for working out for the rest of the year in order to keep in shape for fullfilling the wants,needs and greeds of thousands ofbhakts and navas which they have seeked for...till next year. crazy???? but true...

P.S. a friend of mine called up to convince me on going for a weekend trek with him...i asked him to comedown to mumbai instead.... a walk down juhu , girgaon or dadar chowpatti would be as good as climbing the kalsubai.... isnt it?