vijaya dasami 2005

It was just another day at office, i thought. But it was not "the-just-another-day" at office.
It was dussera, also called vijaya dasami.

I came to office at 9.45 am. The office was fully decorated with flowers(banthi poolu aka marigold). When i reached my pc, i discovered that it was decorated too.
There were flowers on the monitor and kumkum and gandham put on the monitor.

When i turned around, i found the same on every PC. I started working after having a cardamom tea. Mail box was filled with greetings.

After a while, office boy came and applied gandham on my forehead and invited me to the "Durga Puja". It was set up in the reception of our office. There was a photo of goddess Durga, embraced with a golden yellowy garland. The place was filled with bananas, incense sticks, karpooram, coconuts, and deepam.
Our administartor Lt. Col. Prasad started the pooja with sanskrit shlokas. After that he broke the coconut and offered aarathi. We prayed Goddess Durga. Sweets distribution marked the end of the Durga pooja.

It was a nice moment and i felt nostalgic.

The funniest part of the whole is when the smoke alarm in our office was activated due to aarathi. Thank God, they are working :P

C ya,
vg...