I love being a Desi!

Ganapati Bappa, Morayya!

It is Ganapati time again! :) The one thing which i completely love about Ganapati is the spirit of the festival! The day when Ganapati is brought to the mandap - the way the devotees dance has always been one of the most enjoyable moments of my life! The typical music of "dhinka chika, dhinka chika, dhinka chika" with all the band baaja is mesmerising to me. I remember once going for an exam, and somewhere in between the Ganapati music started with the dhinka chika. My hands almost instantly went up as a reflex to start dancin :), only to realise i was in an examination hall :P

Ganapati, made me realise, how much of a desi i am and how i love being a complete desi, and possibly can never imagine being out of the country for a long (read more than a couple of months) period of time. I am listing some of the things, which i absolutely love about my country...

1. Food - Idiappams, dhokla, daal baati, daal makhani, bengali sweets, puran poli! Wow! What a variety! i think one can have one completely new dish every day, and go on for atleast an year!

2. Spirituality & Indian Philosophy - I genuinely believed, one has to be blessed to be born in India - for its spirituality. Just by being in India, a lot of learnings happen naturally, the philosophy of Advaita (Propounded by Adi Shankaracharya) is one of the simplest and yet the deepest philosophy to have ever been. Modern science, is still struggling to come up with a unified theory.

3. Leg in torn (the phate mein taang adaana) - As indians, we love to poke our noses everywhere :) Ok, this might strictly not be something i love, but yeah, it is amusing at the least.

Three interesting Indian traits (or so i think) -

1. Every body is a doctor - Sneeze once, and you will have advice pouring from all over the country. All of us seem to know that perfect remedy for a cold, cough, fever, acidity, headache and at times even cancer!

2. Negotiation is my birth right - needs no explanation!

3. We love plastic- We wrap everything, remotes, mobile phones..and yeah..we dont throw away the plastic which we get from the supermarkets, we store them carefully in another plastic :)

There are many more desi things which i like, and Indian traits which come to my mind, however, i thought i should leave it to the readers to add some more! (assuming, there ARE some readers!). Also helps me follow the consultants three point rule, so incase some partner at a consulting firm reads my blog, it would definitely act in my favour!