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by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:55 am

tumhare yug ka ravan achcha tha. dus ke dus chehre "bahar" rakhta tha.

Happy dusshera to all here, if you celebrate it.

by Vakavaka Pakapaka Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:14 am

Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.

by confuzzled dude Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:40 am

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.

Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

by Vakavaka Pakapaka Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:42 am

confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

I forgot - Batukamma!!!

Jai Telangana!

by confuzzled dude Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:48 am

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?
I forgot - Batukamma!!!

Jai Telangana!

Nothing to do with Mahabharatam?

by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:53 am

confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

wait, what? why do you celebrate dusshera then? It's funny how *I* am one of the top experts on southindians in my family/friends circle.

by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:56 am

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?
I forgot - Batukamma!!!

Jai Telangana!

so what... the quote still holds true if you believe in ramayan.... also the quote on iftar party is true as well, as long as you celebrate dashmi is some way.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:44 pm

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

wait, what? why do you celebrate dusshera then? It's funny how *I* am one of the top experts on southindians in my family/friends circle.

Just like Al-Akbari is the "top expert" on TN, Telengana, and Andhra.

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:48 pm

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

wait, what? why do you celebrate dusshera then? It's funny how *I* am one of the top experts on southindians in my family/friends circle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golu

have you never attended a doll display?

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:51 pm

in the south as in bengal, navarathri is much more about celebration of the female side of hinduism - shakti, durga, lakshmi, and saraswathi.

by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:59 pm

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:
Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?

wait, what? why do you celebrate dusshera then? It's funny how *I* am one of the top experts on southindians in my family/friends circle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golu

have you never attended a doll display?

oh this... ya i know this... i mean i didn't know SIs do it too. I had learned about it here - as in the us and ch - but had forgotten it's done on dashmi. No I have never been to any SIs doll display. Growing up, I have seen marathi people do this, i.e. exhibit a doll (on a stick) outside their houses, I think on the roof or something. But I thought that's related to the navdurga days.

Among us NIs either on navmi or dashmi, we would have little girls from the neighborhood for a lunch feast. And on this day adults would touch our (little girls - kanya - in the family) feet. Side story: This is the reason why among NIs the girls don't touch feet of adults in her own family, coz then it would be a reverse cycle. I think this is done on navmi (and not dashmi), coz I think we do this during the devi days (that lead to ramnavmi) during summer months as well.

Anyway, I am so bad about remembering anything or knowing anything about all this, that when I was a kid, sibs would already call me an NRI lol. Who knew I would become one one day.

by Vakavaka Pakapaka Fri Oct 03, 2014 1:04 pm

In addition to Bommala Koluvu, in Andhra, school kids go door to door singing songs in praise of communities. Families donate money to schools and honour teachers.

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Oct 03, 2014 1:07 pm

it's not 'a doll on a stick'. it's an entire display of dolls with themes -- the dashavatharam set which tells the story of the ten avatars of vishnu, murugan whispering the praNava manthram to his father, different kinds of piLLaiyAr (ganesha) dolls, ashtalakshmis, saraswathi, shiva bestowing rishi agasthya with the tamil language, rama-lakshmana-sita-hanuman set, arjunA prostrating himself in front of his charioteer, narasimha emerging from a pillar with an awestruck hiranyakashipu and prahalad in front of him, the trinity of carnatic music and on and on and on. typically the central display on the top step is a bronze of nataraja.

on the penultimate and last step one usually finds non-religious dolls and something more contemporary -- e.g. these could be mascot figurines from the beijing olympics, dolls representing a swiss farmhouse, a chettiar shopkeeper with a pot belly and his wife etc. whatever one acquires during one's travels.

people visit each other's houses to see each other's kolu. those learning CM are asked to sing a song or two typically in praise of the mother goddess.

by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 1:10 pm

wow this is elaborate. I was talking about what I had seen on Marathi people houses.. i don't even know if it's on this day or some other day (is that gudi padwa?). Let me find out.

by Guest Fri Oct 03, 2014 1:22 pm

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:wow this is elaborate. I was talking about what I had seen on Marathi people houses.. i don't even know if it's on this day or some other day (is that gudi padwa?). Let me find out.

ya ok... it's gudi padwa, not dussehra.

golu is a purely SI thing, as in not even maharashtrians do that.

edit: happy golu (or dashmi)... do share pics if you guys decorated too.

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:49 pm

Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
Beatrix Kiddo wrote:wow this is elaborate. I was talking about what I had seen on Marathi people houses.. i don't even know if it's on this day or some other day (is that gudi padwa?). Let me find out.

ya ok... it's gudi padwa, not dussehra.

golu is a purely SI thing, as in not even maharashtrians do that.

edit: happy golu (or dashmi)... do share pics if you guys decorated too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

by Hellsangel Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:50 am

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:
confuzzled dude wrote:
Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Sikularists don't. They'll attend an iftar party, if it can be held on Vijaya Dasami.
Vakavaka garu, Are you trying to ingratiate with NIs, I thought Dasara celebrations in Andhra have got nothing to do with Ram or Ravana. Are you going to sell yourself and your beliefs that your grew up with just to befriend NIs?
I forgot - Batukamma!!!

Jai Telangana!

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