Diwali 2010

Diwali 2010 was very different. My parents have just left USA on Oct 30th, after staying with us for 4 months. It was a sudden loneliness, that made me cranky for the first day making chapathis for dinner. Second and third day were equally bad. I knew diwali was coming, and I had to make some sweet. However,Ii just could not summon the enthusiasm or the energy  to do it. So on Friday evening before the puja, got sweets from the store. That was offered to God this time. I never expected to feel this loneliness. I was quite happy to know that my parents had a good time, reached India safely etc. I even told my mother that Diwali sweets preparation would begin only after they left. But who knew it would come to gnaw at me for 4 days? 

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Poverty

For the first time in almost four years of living in USA, I saw a man with a tattered T-shirt. We had gone to watch a movie on Diwali evening, 5th Nov 2010. There, i saw this man, wearing a tattered t shirt, with a hole in the back, cleaning dustbins inside the theater. I don't know what he was looking for, but I did see him clean all the rims of the trash cans placed outside all theater entrances. Struck me in a very odd way-seeing that in this land of opportunity that people still flock to, there are people wearing torn clothes in winter. Felt sorry for him,and grateful to God for what I had, at the same time. 

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