Bikash
Choudhury
After bathing my mind and soul on the moonlit night came
down for a sound sleep in the company of moon and blinking stars light years
away; but, up very close in the minds eye. Our imagination is what differentiates
us from other mammals in this planet. When sleep took over the being and made
the body and mind as good as corpse, no ilm. But, when the alarm clock reminded
at 4 a.m, felt alive; however, the intoxication of sleep just likes of McDowell
Premium whisky (a favorite drink of mine once upon a time) coxed me to ignore
the alarm and so winked a sleep for another hour and got up to prepare for the
journey to Bindu Sagar at old Town of Bhubaneswar for the traditional boat
launching ceremony of we Odias- aka maa bai….. by that time, it seemed entire
city was already awake as the crackers were going up with deafening sounds.
After a wash in hot water and little puja at home left by 6 a.m with winter endowed blowing from south making the
body and sensation that much warm. While driving down from Patia where I leave
saw the rising sun in deep orange little above the ground behind the fields in
a distance near east coast railway HQ. But as we proceed the beauty of sun did
not leave us in our journey as it pops up now then to apparently remind us that
we can’t get away from his blessings. By the time we reached the shores of
Bindu Sagar a huge crowd already jostling with each other and the baritone
voice of Raj Guru, Prasnna Patsahani coming clearly from the sound system; it
was the Boita Bandana Uschava that he was addressing. Quietly got down to the
water to launch our boat with betel and betel nut and a diya. The boat
navigated in the water among thousands of boats into the centre. We had a
darsana of Lord Siva and returned to home in between a break fast of Sambar
Idli at famous south Indian joint at Ashok Nagar. Hope all is well with the
World.
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