I had the distinct pleasure of walking on FC road just as the warkaris started coming and ended up getting a Darshan close up of both the Tukaram and the Dnyaneshwar Palkhis towards the end with some friends.
I won’t write too much right now but here are some pictures!
As always the welcome Rangolis and the first group making its way up FC Road.
Some interesting personalities……
and some really cute children in traditional atire!!!!
(All photos taken and being shared with the express permission of their parents)
The highlight had to be the amazing Rangoli designs!
The artists were drawing them so fast and yet so accurately!
some more…….
But this one was clearly the overwhelming favourite!
Can’t not take Darshan of “Bappa” and then enjoy a walk on an empty Laxmi Road!
As the sun was going down….
The crowds started gathering……
The warkaris started growing in number as well as the number of photos being taken!
The police were doing an excellent job of managing the large pool of people, participating in the Palkhi and get captured by their colleagues!
The Tukaram Palkhi was the first one…….
with the Dnyaneshwar Palkhi being the last with some mini groups in between.
I was there a total of 4.5 hours approximately.
It was a blissful experience to take it in.
I hope to walk from Alandi to Pune sometime, and then Pune to Saswad after that!
A lot of people complain about the “disturbance and inconvenience”
To them, I say “Mauli Mauli”
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Prior to 1859 Nagarathars worshipped a Vel (spear), a representation of Lord Muruga, under a tree. The Vel was kept under a Pipal tree (Arasa maram) at the bank of a tank (pond). Fresh water from the hill emerged as a waterfall and filled the tank.
The temple was built on 04.04.1859. Chettiars community bought the land, from the estate of Mr Oxley, the first Surgeon General of Singapore.
The temple in its original form was of a simple structure. In 1878, two separate sanctums were built for Lord Sundareswarar and
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Amazon is the exclusive provider for Thursday night, while CBS and FOX carry the games at 1.00 and 4.15 PM, while NBC and ESPN have the prime time games at 8.00 PM.
The games initially scheduled for Sunday Night Football (on NBC) and Monday Night Football (ESPN or ABC) are tentatively scheduled.
Only Sunday afternoon games (or those listed as TBD) are eligible to be moved to Sunday night or Monday night,
Sometime in the early 2000’s a young Maharashtrian musician realised that Marathi songs were not being played on the FM stations, as they were not commercially viable.
He decided to address this situation by making a landmark Marathi song.
He took a unique approach. He decided to make that the sole focus of his life.Over the next 18 months, he did not take up any project.
The other decision he took was that it would be done with the best singers, in the best recording studio and with the most talented musicians.
He also planned to do a mass funding for this mainly to create an awareness movement and able to do the best he can.
A friend of his came home and he ran this idea past her. She immediately gave him a ₹500 note and was one of his strongest advocates throughout the project.
Mumbai: the city of dreams, Local trains and now Metro, Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar!
Must be a mammoth task to govern it and I was fortunate to get a first hand view of the flagship of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation today, thanks to @Khaki_Tours!
Most people will@say Mumbai was formed by the amalgamation of 7 islands, but in reality there were 23 of them.
A large part of the city is reclaimed land and 2/3 feet under sea level, which often causes flooding during monsoon, often unfairly blamed totally on the BMC.
The BMC as we know it extended upto Mahim and Sion till 1950, when it was extended upto Jogeshwari and Mankurd/Bhandup.
Later it was extended upto Borivali/Dahisar and Mulund a few years later.
But first we must go a few centuries back to understand the history!