"Festival Season Started"

Festival season has been started officially. I enjoy festivals because we get time to be with family and friends and we can taste variety of sweets and yummy food !.
Mahalakshmi is the goddess of wealth and prosperity.

The Hindu festival by the name 'Vara Mahalakshmi Vrata' is celebrated on a Friday that falls before the full Moon day of the month of Shravanamasa. Women will perform this Pooja to get prosperity, health, wealth and knowledge for the family.

The way of celebrating this festival differ from place to place. As I belong to southern part of karnataka. I would like to share my this year ecperience as I stay 600 KM away from my family but still I follow the same tradition which I learnt from my mother.

The way of celebrating this festival differ from place to place. As I belong to southern part of karnataka. I would like to share my this year ecperience as I stay 600 KM away from my family but still I follow the same tradition which I learnt from my mother.


Festival will start Early in the morning after taking bath, The place where puja is performed should be cleaned thoroughly. And decorated the place with rangolis and flowers. A kalasam (bronze or silver pot) is filled with rice and topped with fresh mango leaves and decorated with turmeric or sandal paste and Kumkum.

Sweets, fruits and flowers are offered to Goddess. At the end of the Varalakshmi puja, We tie yellow colored threads to our wrists.

Fasting is observed by the women who perform the pooja. In the evening women visit other houses and exchange sweets and offerings.

" Missing My Place"

I always feel proud about the Place where I was born and bought up.Vidurashwatha (in Gauribidanur taluk, Chikkaballapura district,Karnataka)is well known both for its mythological and historical links with the ancient and the recent past.

What is in the Name...?

It gets its name after Vidura who it is said visited this ancient site on the banks of the river Pinakini during his pilgrimage to the South. Vidura, Mahabharata says, was half-brother to Dhritarashtra and Pandu. The local myth has it that during his visit Vidura planted a pupil sapling (Ficus religiosa) which according to a traditional belief is the same that Vidura planted and nursed in the days of yore during his sojourn here.

There is also a widely held belief that if the childless perform the fertility ritual by way of consecrating a cobra-stone (Nagapratista) at this place they will be blessed with a womb.




Historical Past:

During the time of struggle for independence led by Gandhi in 1930s, When provincial government foiled an attempt by the Satyagrahis at Shivapura (Mandya district) to hoist Congress flag in defiance against the Power demanding Responsible Government, the congress leaders of Kolar district chosen Vidurashwatha as the most perfect site for the programme.

The hoisting of Congress Flag took place on 24 April 1938. The British Government blindly responded with several rounds of firing killing seven of the crowd and injuring many.

The incident drew the attention of the top congress leaders and Vidurashwatha entered the annals of freedom struggle at the national level. Since there is a parallel between this firing incident and that of the infamous Jalianwala Bagh of Punjab Vidurashwatha is also called the “Jalianwala Bagh of the South”.

"My paintings - using MS-paint"

Since from the age when I started using Computer, I'm trying to increase my painting skills using MS- point. Some or the other way I try to spend time on this but like most of my other interests this one is also dominated by my work schedule.

Lord Ganesha




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Aquarium



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My childhood DreamHouse