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For any bengali child, “Kola bou” is always fascinating. She is popularly known as the wife of Lord Ganesha. Another story says, she is the manifestation of Maa Durga. Durga puja, the biggest bengali festival doesnot start without embracing the “Kola bou”. It is a young banana tree, draped in a white saree with red border. And after the puja is done, like a bengali wife gracefully carries the vermilion on the parting of her hair, the Kola Bou (banana wife) also sports vermillion. Different sources have varied opinions about Kola Bou. Haridas Mitra says that the Kala bou is intended to serve as a symbolic summary for the nine types of leaves (nava patrika) that together form a sacred complex on Durga Puja. The officiating priests who carry out the ceremony tie a bunch of eight plants on the trunk of the plantain tree and it is the grouping of all nine plants that constitute the Kola bou. According to Martin-Dubost, the Kola bou does not represent a bride or shakti of Ganesha, but rather is the plant form of Durga.

This was the first time I saw something as this.. and it was an over whelming experience. I got to see the dark blue of the sky giving in to the golden glow of the sun rise, while I kept listening to a friend of mine. The cool breeze, the river bank, the “Dhaaker gur gur”, the sky of the Indian autumn and it leaves no space left to make an awesome morning, an awesome start to the Durga Puja.

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A snippet of the conversation with a “pir baba” of Jama Masjid, Delhi (2011). Coupled with photographs shot at Eid 2012, at Red Road, Calcutta.

He asked,”what does your heart wish for?”
I was unprepared for it.
I said, “safety, peace, stability”.
He : “Who does not wish for it?”
I sat there finding no answer, a slight smile on my face, questions in my mind, afraid to spill it out.
He said, “We all want safety, we all want peace within ourselves and stability. What do we pray for?”
I said, “We pray to the Almighty, to tell him our needs, and thank Him for what we get in our lives”.
He said, “Everyones’ peace.. for stability all around us. For us to prosper. For us to feel Him, for our true knowledge.”

As I grow, I understand what the eminent citizens of our society make the common people believe. They polish for us the better picture, which dwell in our hearts.

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Happy Diwali friends, keep this safe. Let Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi bless us all with the richness of wealth and of wisdom. Share this if you like the photograph.

 
Hinduism, the oldest religious tradition across the globe, and traditions older than history, since time immemorial, has evolved and sublimed within the realms of Human conscience. Believed to have formed of diverse traditions, it is considered to be the oldest living tradition in the world. Not only this, some historians are of the opinion that Hinduism is the root of the emergence of the other religions as well, though the proofs have been pretty much debatable and controversial.
Shiva, the God of Destruction is considered as one of the major Hindu Gods in the Hindu Triad.
This is the most appropriate moment to mention about “the Auspicious One” as this being the Shraavan month, as per Hindu Calendar (Last week of July to 3rd week of August), with the entrance of Sun into Cancer, and it is celebrate across the nation as the annual pilgrimage of His devotees.
According to the Puranas, Shiva is also known as the “Neel-kanth” as He drank the poison which emerged out of the giant snake, Vasuki, during the battle between the Gods and Demons for the “amrut” or the nectar of immortality, and with His yogic powers He managed to stop the poison from going further inside His body, but then again, His throat took the colour blue and since then He is worshipped as “Neel-kanth”.
May Shiva bestow upon His devotees unconditional love, kindness, graciousness and the power to overcome their “samudra manthan”.

 

 

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Standing by the window, seeing the world getting drizzled by the mighty clouds.. I feel the translucent crystal drops of rain as I gaze outside the window with my warm cup of coffee. I see the beauty that surrounds me..the flickering tall trees pushed away by the strong winds…the blurred chatter of children as they play in the rain…the pleasant odor of the soaked soil… the twirling of sluggish earth worms on the road sides …while I observe this as a silent lover, I feel “one” with the mother nature.

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