Today is Karkala Laksha Deepostsava at Sri Venkatarama Temple. Also, popularly known as Karthi Punnav among the GSB community. So, I would be off to karkala today afternoon.
Infact, I was in Karkala yesterday too for the the “Talayi Divvo” function. (Well, if you are Karkalite, you will know what “Talayi Divvo” is! :) ). Have clicked some nice snaps of the function. Will post them once I am back tomorrow.
1 comment | November 21st, 2005 at 01:06pm
Me back in office. After a long time, i stayed away from a comp!. No mails, no net, no blogs, no bloglines for full four days. Really surprised at the speed at which these four days passed by!.
Ok. Let me quickly describe my mini vacation.
We left for karkal on 13th May (i.e., Friday). Initially, we had planned that we will start by 8.30 AM, but somehow we could start only at 10 AM. Reached Karkal by around 11.15 PM. Directly went to Uncles house at Sanoor (3 kms from karkal)
This time around, we decided to stay at a hotel in Karkal. There were lot of guests at my uncles house due to the wedding celebrations that coincided with the carfestival. So, we had booked a room in Hotel Prakash @ karkal (near to Ananthashayana temple). The room was decent enough, but the building plan sucked big time (a pillar in the middle of the room!. think about it ! :) ). But service/facilities/food etc were decent. We checked in at around 2 PM.
At around 4 PM, we went to the temple area. Friday was ‘Hod-Teru’ (final day of the car-festival). The crowd was quite a lot and we decided not to take the camera. :( So, no snaps of that day. The function went on gracefully. It has its own beauty!
The next day was “Vokul” (holi). This time around, i did take my camera along with me. I got some good close up snaps of Lord Venkataramana.
Lord Sri Venkataramana of Karkala : Abhisheka @ Ramasamudra : Vokul day (Click to enlarge)
Devotees taking the holy dip along with the Lord (Click to enlarge)
Lord Sri Venkataramana of Karkala : Alankara (Click to enlarge)
Lord Sri Venkataramana of Karkala : Alankara (Click to enlarge)
Lord Sri Venkataramana of Karkala : Alankara (Click to enlarge)
Panoramic view of Ramasamurdra (Click to enlarge)
One more Panorama (Click to enlarge)
At home, things were getting tuned up for my cousin sisters wedding on 16th May. On Saturday (14th May), we had a small Mehendi function at home, followed by some fun! :).
Mehendi on one of my cousins hand (Click to enlarge)
On Sunday, there was a function at the Groom’s house in the afternoon (Udida Murthu). So, all of us went there. Evening we had the Phool Muddi function at the hall. It was fun. Some of the kids performed some dances (and then even the bride groom danced! :D).
Stage at the Wedding hall : Fully decorated (Click to enlarge)
Coconuts used during the wedding rituals (Click to enlarge)
My experiment with light bulbs :) (Click to enlarge)
Monday, 16th May was the wedding. Around 1500 people turned up. Crowded. Hot. The function went on smoothly. We could have our lunch only at 4 PM i guess!. We could reach home only at 5 PM. After spending some time at my uncles house, we started back to Mangalore at around 7.30 PM. Reached Mangalore at around 8.30 PM.
Now back in office. The four days passed by quite fast. Now back to work. Had quite a lot of mails in my inbox. Cleared almost half of them. Still have lots to clear.
25 comments | May 17th, 2005 at 07:34pm