Hey Everyone,
Hope you all are doing enjoying three Garba/ Dandia Dance in Navratri or just enjoying the music when you hear it from the loudspeakers :)
I have spent my childhood and graduation days in Gujarat and that's why I am a diet-hard Garba fan though I do not go to the dance programs all the 9 days but I enjoy listening to the sounds that keep coming from the loudspeakers :)
"Kanya bhoj" is an important feature in Navratri. In my family and amongst the relatives it is a custom to call small girls for having a Lunch usually n the 9th day of Navratri.
I feel very good when small girls come all decked up in their new clothes and vibrant accessories - hair bands and pins, necklaces, nice looking handkerchiefs, beautiful sandals etc.
But what is a bit disappointing is that
1) The girls are supposed to go to so many places on the same day and for the same meal that they are not able to enjoy the food at any place
2) They get very exhausted roaming from one home to another.
3) The food also gets wasted..
What I feel is that we should come out of our mental barriers and try to include some new things like
1) Calling the girls to eat on all the days of Navratri starting from the 1st day.
2) If possible the lower class and the lower middle class girls should be invited.
These little girls should also be given food packets which they can take back with themselves which would be sufficient enough to feed at least 2-3 or even 4-5 of the family members, that would be charity in real sense.
(We do this :) )
3) During Navratri people who feel Kanya/little girls are the avatar of Nav durga should keep things like food packets/ utensils/ packet of biscuits/ homemade snacks/ other gifts
and should carry them especially while going to and returning from the office.
4) People can also make visits to the local basti area and distribute food packets themselves without involving any NGO or any group as such (because all such groups are generally interested in doing publicity of their group)
5) And last but not the least.. its not just Navratri that Deviji would be happy if you keep doing such philanthropic acts all round the year.
Something like sponsering their education or tution fees or sports equipments or uniforms or game equipments or etc etc it can be any thing and everything that you can think of and that cmoes within your budget...
Deviji is able to see and observe your acts all round the year 24x7x365. :)
Hope this gives an idea to interested people!
Guten Tag! (Good Day)
Hope you all are doing enjoying three Garba/ Dandia Dance in Navratri or just enjoying the music when you hear it from the loudspeakers :)
I have spent my childhood and graduation days in Gujarat and that's why I am a diet-hard Garba fan though I do not go to the dance programs all the 9 days but I enjoy listening to the sounds that keep coming from the loudspeakers :)
"Kanya bhoj" is an important feature in Navratri. In my family and amongst the relatives it is a custom to call small girls for having a Lunch usually n the 9th day of Navratri.
I feel very good when small girls come all decked up in their new clothes and vibrant accessories - hair bands and pins, necklaces, nice looking handkerchiefs, beautiful sandals etc.
But what is a bit disappointing is that
1) The girls are supposed to go to so many places on the same day and for the same meal that they are not able to enjoy the food at any place
2) They get very exhausted roaming from one home to another.
3) The food also gets wasted..
What I feel is that we should come out of our mental barriers and try to include some new things like
1) Calling the girls to eat on all the days of Navratri starting from the 1st day.
2) If possible the lower class and the lower middle class girls should be invited.
These little girls should also be given food packets which they can take back with themselves which would be sufficient enough to feed at least 2-3 or even 4-5 of the family members, that would be charity in real sense.
(We do this :) )
3) During Navratri people who feel Kanya/little girls are the avatar of Nav durga should keep things like food packets/ utensils/ packet of biscuits/ homemade snacks/ other gifts
and should carry them especially while going to and returning from the office.
4) People can also make visits to the local basti area and distribute food packets themselves without involving any NGO or any group as such (because all such groups are generally interested in doing publicity of their group)
5) And last but not the least.. its not just Navratri that Deviji would be happy if you keep doing such philanthropic acts all round the year.
Something like sponsering their education or tution fees or sports equipments or uniforms or game equipments or etc etc it can be any thing and everything that you can think of and that cmoes within your budget...
Deviji is able to see and observe your acts all round the year 24x7x365. :)
Hope this gives an idea to interested people!
Guten Tag! (Good Day)
Calling poor and downtrodden girls would perfectly fulfill this navrathri's purpose. They perfectly know the value of the food and that way the food and the girls both get their mutual respect @!!!
ReplyDeleteHow true!
ReplyDeleteNice ideas Nidhi, I think our generation is able to think beyond blind custom following and club tradition with common sense....
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