deepawali with flowers on trees

[Anadish Pal]

Enjoy the cracking fresh air, if you stop blasting it!

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[Usha Srinivasan]

Thanks for the Deewali card with a message that I will send to many more.

Usha Srinivasan

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[Anadish Pal]

Thanks for the appreciation.

Anadish

[ajay mahajan]

:)  

thats a very apt and good one anadish....

i share the experience...

so lets stop blasting it and start enjoying... 

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Anadish Pal <ana...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Anadish Pal]

Thanks Ajay.

We continue sharing so much even without using any electronic means!!

Best wishes,

Anadish

[nandita]

This is so beautiful. I wish we could have a poster. I am looking for someone who can print this for me in coloured print-out for every classroom.

This could also be the beginning of a diwali card drawing and growth of consciousness initiative for  children.

You should see some of the paintings that the MCD children did in the afternoon programme that Navakriti hosts for them before Diwali. To begin with, all had crackers and then when we talked about the environment there were other exquisite rangoli paintings and paintings of nature. I have no words to describe the beauty and splendour of those paintings..

But I realised that bursting a few crackers or lighting a few sparklers were deeply entrenched activities of celebration -- maybe we could start be lessening the tie and intensity we devoted to that. Then another thought struck me.

Why were we even lighting so many diyas? Was not even that an excess if you thought about the poorest homes? Why not have one diya for each house and have a prayer for light in the soul?

I shared this beautiful PDF with our teachers in navakriti. We were all deeply enriched by the visual.

May the Divne through your work light up a million hearts,
pranam,
nandita

[ajay mahajan]

great idea... 

and the rangoli and overall engagement sound wonderful too...

will come see the paintings

treeslovepeace

ajay 

[ajay mahajan]

:)

am actually very concerned abt the kind of noise and levels we make as a society.... not the right one's..!

the noise levels this diwali in my part of town, new friends colony, South East Delhi were no joke..

cracker bombs going off at a regular above 100 decibels.. till past 12 midnight..  in the sky on the ground...

 the breeze saved many of us from unbearable pollution levels.. tho people still got asthma attacks..

what if there wasnt a breeze or there was an atmospheric inversion effect coinciding...

the one's causing it didnt seem bothered.. nor the govt.. nor so many of us...

animals were traumatised, i cant even imagine what the birds wldve gone thru...plants..? theyre all caked in dust and soot..

its only the rain that keeps saving our air... and us... and we keep doing the air version of muddying the waters.. how long..

as a human i struggled some..and thanked the breeze 

 

why cant diwali the fireworks part, if it has to be... be celebrated at a small or big community level...     

 

what is the kick that so many get from bursting a big bomb or strings of them...

and each their own... we're more individualistic than the americans.. in some respects atleast...

 

someone needs to look at the socio psychology of sound, noise, horns, crackers, bombs...

in a language that people understand..,

 

could terrorists bombs, war bombs like cluster bombs and bunker busters and atomic bombs be a logical progression... ? 

 

meanwhile can we atleast see some action to stop needless loud honking and trumpeting...

 

still hoping

 

ajay

 

 

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anadish Pal <ana...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Anadish Pal]

@Nandita

Kusos.

Very heartening observations. I may just add some more interesting facts on the history of Deepawali. It is actually very correct to just have one Diya lit the whole night. The old village and Adivasi roots to the festival were about lighting a single Diya and to keep awake to have it safely glowing the whole night -- the magical intent was to check for any evil forces trying to extinguish the flame and to ward off such forces. If by chance the flame would get extinguished, it was considered a bad omen. Subsequent to that night, came the day of Govardhan Puja, when all the cattle were anointed with oil, especially their horns, and the cowherds were rewarded; the tradition still continues with your local postman turning up for Bakhshish on that day.

From my wife's native traditions in the villages of Katra in Jammu to my assistant's Oraon traditions in Eastern India (the festival is called Sohrai in Oraon), the core beliefs are the same.

Most probably, if Rama story actually happened, Rama must have timed his return to Ayodhya to coincide his stepping into the city on the eve of Govardhan Puja ot Sohrai -- thus making his return more auspicious for himself.

SO IT IS AFTER ALL JUST A SINGLE FLAME BURNING THE WHOLE NIGHT. IT"S CURIOUS HOW ISAC ASIMOV WOULD HAVE CALLED NANDITA"S INSIGHT A LEAF FROM PSYCHOHISTORY IN REVERSE AND CARL JUNG WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO NOTE IT AS ONE OF HIS ARCHETYPES SURFACING. IT's VERY INTERESTING THAT HOW WE COULD REALLY  GIGURE OUT WHAT WENT ON IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF OUR FOREFATHERS, MAY BE, BECAUSE OUR GENETICS HELPS UP THINK THE SAME WAY AS THEY DID HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO!

Thanks,

Anadish

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM, nandita <1nan...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Naina Abrol]

Hi
this diwali flowers wish was very good i posted on my fb
for every one
Naina

[ajay mahajan]

as i said before it is a great one liner... and yes... cld make a great poster....

an early start to the next diwali...  such msgg can make a difference...

anadish, wld you like to explore, have a go... at such a way of sharing other issues that you deeply relate to.... like whats being done to our urban trees... 

Soil has been banned in Delhi 

It must be always be airborne 

as Dust

If you see it anywhere, 

Kick it up

And don't leave any space for soil or ex-soil (dust) to settle... 

like open earth, grass, trees

Contaminate it with malba and concrete and then cover it... 

Just keep kicking blowing sweeping it Up

And then wonder why there is so much dust and soot

If you feel the dust and smoke particles arent enough

Its the perfect season of leaf fall 

to heap lots of leaves and burn

and yes plastic burns well... 

the fire must keep burning and the smoke too must rise

festivities musnt end

On a different note: 

(Leaf burning is banned by court orders and govt orders and covered under EPA(in a particular section), and SDMs have been/are authorised to levy fines: CCF Sinha told me after i raised the issue recently... he said to contact the Env. Dept. Can some of us, Ushaji pl., take it up with Env dept. They cld issue Good effective newspaper ads.. with no.'s of who to complain to... and also write to the SDMs to take action. And to MCD etc to instruct their mali's and sweeping staff to desist from this practice or face fines and penalisation(these are the two biggest categories of regular leaf burners. In recent yrs, fires in neighbourhood garbage dumps have also become a regular feature in the two big leaf fall seasons of autumn(Now!) and late spring... As the leaf fall season has just begun.. the time to act is Now. there is already a haze over the city from dust and smoke as the rain hasnt bailed us out yet. 

treeslovepeace

ajay