Thursday, August 06, 2009

Raksha Bandhan

Indians have a lot of things to do with threads. Perhaps the thread entirely originated from India. Its application is immense. Go to any temple. They sell threads of your favourite colour, the most common being red. Don't know why, but people feel happy in showing of their threads. Then there's another application of thread which brahmins wear around their bodies. Legend says its sacred. But that's a legend. It mostly acts like a batch to show off you are a higher caste.

So what is so different about Raksha Bandhan??? There are many. First, it's not only thread it is something fixed above the thread which makes up the "rakhee". Next you don't tie it up yourself, you have got your sisters to finally do some work and tie it up on your hands. Later you find out that you are protected for your entire life cause they tied this up. Too much eh??? But that's not all. Cause they warded off the evils causing any threat on you, you have to give them gifts(read money, yes, it's all about money). Heard of extortion? The thread protects you, and you pay them. And you wonder where the mafia concept came from...

Looking in the pages of history, I found this queer incident related to raksha bandhan. Alexander was saved from Indian king Puru because of a Rakhee which Alexander's wife had sent to Puru. There are numerous other events like that of Krishna and Draupadi but I guess we all know that. So what lessons do you learn from the history class on rakhee??? If you have a girlfriend or better yet a wife, you tell her to tie the rakhee on the hands of the person who hates you most. You can have a sound sleep after that. Come on, make use of the traditions for your benefit. That's why they are there.

P.S. :- Wondering why one day late post??? Hands were full of rakhees yesterday. Obviously can't type with your hands tied.

Monday, August 03, 2009

The Movie-aholic

The last one year I have seen myself turned into a moive-aholic. What??? There's no such word like that. Come on! There oughta be something like that. I hate to call myself a movie addict. Anyways I was watching movies like all the time. So much that I didn't even get time to log on and update my blog. Now as I see it lies in ruins. Its glory lies in the dusts now waiting to be consumed by the army of the fresh bloggers joining everyday. But that is now not going to happen. Because the time has come for me to return, rise from the ashes, as they say in those mythological action flicks. It's going to be the return of the Jedi and the empire strikes back if you see from the dark side. Hehehehehehe....So much of the movies jargon in the post I guess. Ok. Hope you guys help me out.

P.S. : Thanks to all those people who still visited thw website in the dark days and kept earning me some loose change.