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I’ve been a little reluctant to write about our trip to Varanasi—because I’m not sure I can put into words how magical and wonderful it was.
David and I both had some trepidation about the trip. I know I didn’t want to leave India AGAIN without having visited that oldest and holiest of cities (for Hindus.) But we had read enough to make us nervous: the crowds, the dirt, the pickpockets, the cows, the bodies…you name it. So did those expectations make the reality even more wonderful? I’m not sure. But it was a visit I will never forget.
That Adam Grotsky, the Executive Director of Fulbright in India, loves the city and connected us with a hotel and a guide definitely helped. We arrived at the Ganges River View after a blessedly uneventful morning of travel (after the hassles of the day before.) The place is a historic home on the Assi Ghat that has been beautifully converted into a boutique hotel. The terrace garden outside our bedroom was full of flowers that were almost freakish in size (and gorgeous.)
After a little stroll down the ghats,
we met up with our guide Ajay to attend the nightly Arti ceremony on the bank of the river. It was one of the times when I was very grateful that I invested in custom ear plugs for this trip- the amplification was deafening. The ceremony was interesting—but frankly, it felt more like a tourist attraction than an actual religious ceremony (and the tourists were certainly there in throngs.)
The next morning, we met Ajay in reception at 6:30, and walked down the ghats to a waiting rowboat. For the next 45 minutes or so, we were rowed downstream as the river and the ancient city came to life. It was impossibly beautiful and absolutely magical.
Ours was a singing boatman—and David captured this:
Motorboats have pushed aside a lot of the rowboats—and later in the day the river is teeming with them. But Ajay loves the old ways- and I am so grateful. (My father would have loved this boat, and other old wooden boats we saw.)
We disembarked about halfway down the ghats and walked through the old city. We stopped at temples,
peered into shops,
met a guy cuddling his beloved cows,
congratulated a newlywed couple (traveling from temple to temple for blessings--with mother-in-law in tow),
visited a beautiful old mosque (with one of the most spectacular views of the Ganges)
and were welcomed into the historic home of a famous Varanasi playwright (1800’s) by his descendants for a traditional breakfast.
Ajay has an astounding amount of historical information to share about the city—and was the perfect tour guide.
One of our last stops was the main cremation ghat—and I was definitely my mother’s daughter at that point. I was fascinated. No pictures, of course, but let me describe:
We stood above on a terrace and looked down on about fifteen funeral pyres- some burning full force (with yes, a body inside) and some waiting to be lit. You hear bells, and then a group of men come into view below, carrying a body on a sort of stretcher. The body and face are covered in brilliantly colored cloths. The main mourner (usually the oldest son) has just had his head shaved. They move to the river, where they carefully submerge the body. They lift the stretcher and tip it to drain the water. Then they return to shore and place the body next to a pyre. Evidently, negotiations on wood, etc. will follow. We didn’t stay that long. But I will never forget it. The family will return after several weeks to collect the ashes, which will then be scattered on the river.
After that, we climbed into a motorboat for the ride back up the river (rowing UPSTREAM would take a very long time). I’m not always a fan of tours—I like to poke around myself. But for this city—it was the perfect choice (and if you ever go- I will put you in touch with Ajay!)
We dropped our things at the room and headed back out to have lunch with a fellow Fulbrighter Swasti Bhattacharyya and others from Benaras University, where she is hosted. Met some very cool people (including a theatre maker from CA who knows not only our friend Chandradassan from Kerala, but also our friend Dean Robinson from Ithaca!) After that, we crashed for a good afternoon nap, and then returned to a toy emporium that Ajay brought us to the night before. This place makes hand painted wooden images of the many Hindu gods and goddesses- and I only wish I had taken more pictures! What a fascinating place! Their work is gorgeous (and they train impoverished women as painters- currently employing nearly 40 women to help prepare 20,000 hand painted frames for the G20 Summit!) I felt like a little kid again walking around this shop. It is full of hundreds of unique, imaginative, and magical (yes, I’ve been using that word a lot) figures of all shapes and sizes.
I had vowed to only purchase textiles on this trip—but we couldn’t resist and will be bringing home a flying Hanuman and Ganga when we return to the States.
It was Swasti’s birthday, and we ended a perfect day with a terrific meal together at our hotel—and our host Prakash arranged for a birthday cake to top it off.
Next morning, we attended a free concert of classical Indian music and heard a pretty astounding 16 year old (!) classical singer. I took a million videos —I wanted my students at IC to see how this guy physicalizes the melody of this classical raga. (Video in separate post.)
After that, we were off to the airport—and (again) blessedly simple travel back to Amritsar. I think the gods had decided that one travel nightmare per trip was quite enough.
Thank you, gods.
Someday, someway—I hope to return. One visit is not enough.
“Here’s a thing that I am becoming more evidentially aware of about myself:
I am no longer interested in people pleasing.
All of my “nice girl” and “good girl” tendencies are completely tucked away into a self sustained vault that I don’t need access to right now.
I am not interested in being what anybody wants me to be.
Not my role models, not my friends, not my partner or my mother or my daughter.
I am only interested in going into the deep well of life force that sustains and drives me as a wild, deep, thoughtful, other-worldly, timeless woman.
I am not interested in the facades that push away and suppress the inherent inner wild wolves, the old medicine woman, the hag, the witch, the magician, the alchemist, the voice raiser and change maker lying within me.
The parts that are not welcomed, shunned, shamed, taboo in modern culture.
I am only interested in genuine kindness when developed in a relationship or connection (with anybody of any relation type— partner, business, friendship, etc) that is ROOTED in depth, meaning and synergistic/ reciprocal energy exchanges.
I am not interested in shallow connections. In setting expectations upon others or harboring on my shoulders the unrealistic and unfair expectations that are projected or placed onto me.
That type of energy will immediately shatter and the universe tends to do deep magic and create bewildering and surprising plot twists when I am held to somebody else’s idea or standard, and vise versa.
Expecting instant reply and energy from me— in a world that glorifies instants— instant vehicles, instant food, instant money, instant certificates, instant coffee, instant gratification— is a type of unrealistic and shallow hustle I am not available for.
It feeds hyper aggression, hyper focus, hyper capitalistic “boss babe,” which I am not at all interested in or available for.
It feeds unhealthy and overstimulated nervous systems and adrenal glands, which I am not at all interested in or available for.
It feeds hungry ghosts, the driving force of beasts dressed in kittens clothing, and the whole narrative that we are supposed to constantly be ON in an incredibly unattractive and uninteresting shadow world of people pleasing that actually inspires and drives me to be consciously OFF.
I am watching myself set my internal settings to “off” every time I am simply uninterested and unavailable for feeding somebody’s story, narrative, emotions, need for instant reply, exchange, availability.
I am not available immediately.
It takes me massive amounts of thought and energy to do some of the most “normal” tasks that neurotypical adults never even think about.
Women like me— creative, intuitive, multifaceted in my process and functions— need ample time for restoration.
We need ample rest time, alone time, nurturance time and “off” time.
We need time to process, be human, figure things out without rushing and keeping up with the impossible demands and deadlines of the world.
I am a highly functioning, deep, sensitive woman.
Women like me need nooks of timelessness and boundlessness, and we need other women and close connections who get that.
Thus, the monk of Lord Śākya, humble servant of Guru Mañjughoṣa, Khyentsé Wangpo supplicated. Siddhirastu.
The Sixteen Arhats or Arahants are 'saints' or sages who have fully realized for themselves the Buddhist Doctrine, and have attained freedom from the cycle of suffering and rebirth. In some texts the Buddha is described as being accompanied by 50 arahants, sometimes by 500 or other multiples of this number (the figure is taken by some simply to mean a large crowd). Only 16 Arahants are actually worshipped, and these are perhaps symbolic of the four Arahants that tradition assigns to each of the four cardinal points (materialized as a region of India or of China and as a special 'paradise'). Thus, for example, the first of them, Pindola Bharadvaja, is said to reside with 1,000 of his disciples in Aparagodani, to the west; the second, Kanakavatsa, with 500 disciples, in Kashmir in the north; the tenth, Panthaka, with 1,300 disciples, in the Heaven of the 33 Gods. It appears that Pindola, the only one with Mahakasyapa who did not enter Nirvana, became the Arhats par excellence after the disappearance of Mahakasyapa, and that the others are merely replicas.
These 16 Arhats, distinguished by the Buddha, formed part of the 500 claimed by tradition to have attended the First Council in Rajagrha: there they vowed to renounce Nirvana in order to devote themselves more effectively to the relief of human misery, like the Bodhisattvas. They are considered in Northern Buddhism in general and in Japan in particular as Sravakas or auditors of the Good Word, all disciples of the Small Vehicle and, as very wise human beings, destined to become Bodhisattvas.
They are quite often represented, especially in China and Japan, in sculpture and painting, in poses and with attributes that are often rather different, and this sometimes makes them difficult to identify. They may be shown as young or old men (depending on the style of the painter and the period), usually clothed as monks, heads shaved (except for Rahula). These 16 Arhats, depicted here in the Tibetan style, are the only ones described briefly here, since the others do not obey any particular rule of representation.
Eshwar Bhakti is formed to enrich the world with authentic vedic pujas, homes and yagnas. We specialised in individual and personalised pooja & homes. We have organizing pujas from the last two genearations and brought it to the internet space in the year 2009.
Baglamukhi is worshipped for power, victory, protection for cuts, scars, operations and accidents and dominance over enemies. She helps achieve success in law-suits and competitions as well as pacify quarrels to the worshipper's advantage. Her worship is also effective in warding off evil persons, spirits and Yakshani.
Baglamukhi is identified with the second night of courage and is the power or Shakti of cruelty. She is described as the Devi with three eyes, wearing yellow clothes and gems, moon as her diadem, wearing champaka blossoms, with one hand holding the tongue of an enemy and with the left hand spiking him, thus should you meditate on the paralyser of the three worlds. Seated on the right of Bagala is the Maharudra, with one face, who dissolves the universe. Bagalamukhi means "The Crane-Headed One". This bird is thought of as the essence of deceit. She rules magic for the suppression of an enemy's gossip. She rules deceit which is at the heart of most speech. She can in this sense be considered as a terrible or Bhairavi form of Matrika Devi, the mother of all speech.
Puja service includes: Sthapana (Ganesh, Devi, Navgraha Kalash, Brahma), Swasti Vachan, Sankalp, Ganesh Pujan, Navgraha Puja, Invocation of major Gods, Brahman Varn, Puja of Baglamukhi devi, Baglamukhi yantra Puja, Mantra Jaap, Baglamukhi Kavach recitation, Havan with Ahutis of Honey, Ghee, Sugar, Til, Yellow mustard, & then Aarti, Pushpaanjali.
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At Baglamukhi Shakti Peetha temple, Himachal Pradesh: Baglamukhi siddhi puja being performed at the famous Baglamukhi temple, in the village of Bankhandi, Himachal Pradesh state, India. It is most famous & powerful Shakti Peetha. Pujas performed here are extremely powerful for victory in legal cases.
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The people of Mohammadpur are giving their time, their skills and their souls to fight coronavirus together. Among these corona heroes are Sarita, 42, who has made some hundred masks for her family and others and Dharmender Fauji, who is leading the distribution process of cloth masks to all those who need them.
“In times of corona, it is very important that we wear comfortable masks all the time. Mohammadpur is a very close-knitted colony with rooms of different families living very close to each other. And therefore, it is important that we maintain sanitation and stay safe at all times,” said Sarita.
The making of a hand-stitched mask.
“I was introduced to cloth masks almost a decade ago and I very well know how to maintain it. My family is also acquainted with cloth masks and when the coronavirus outbreak happened, everyone reached out for help. Mask rates were as high as INR 250,” she added.
She has since been making masks for all those who need them.
Fauji, on the other hand, is a community influencer at Sanjeevani Kalyan Kendra (a wellness centre started by Swasti).
The finished mask.
“Over 2700 masks have been produced at the local tailoring unit run by the kendra. These women were trained to make masks out of cotton cloth so that the community can wash and reuse them and still be safe,” he said.
“We have tied up with the kendra and their wellness facilitators (frontline workers) are going door to door and dispensing masks to the community,” he added.
Also read | Corona Heroes: How this organisation is making lives of migrant workers a little easier amid lockdown
Tu khud ki khoj mein nikal
— Go on that quest to find yourself
Tu kis liye hatash hai
— Why have you lost hope?
Tu chal tere wajood ki samay ko bhi talash hai
— Move forward, even time wants to know you
Samay ko bhi talash hai
— Time wants to know your identity
Jo tujhse lipti bediyaan samajh na inko vastra tu
— Don’t think these shackles are part of your daily wardrobe
Ye bediyaan pighaal ke banale inko shastra tu
— Turn them into your armour
Tu khud ki khoj mein nikal
— Go on to discover yourself
Tu chal tere wajood ki samay ko bhi talash hai
— Even time is waiting for you!
Charitra jab pavitra hai to kyun hai ye dasha teri
— When your spirit is pure, why are you so dispirited?
Yeh paapiyon ko haq nahi ki lein pareeksha teri
— These impure souls have no right to judge you
Ki lein pareeksha teri
— To test your spirit
Tu khud ki khoj mein nikal
— Then what is stopping you?
Tu kis liye hatash hai
— Why have you lost hope?
Jala ke bhasm kar use jo kroorta ka jaal hai
— Burn and destroy their trap of persecution
Tu aarti ki lau nahi
— You are not a chaste Goddess slowly burning away
Tu krodh ki mashaal hai
— You are a hungry fire searing ahead
Tu khud ki khoj mein nikal
— Go on and fulfil your dreams
Tu kis liye hatash hai
— Why have you lost your vigour?
Chunar uda ke dhwaj bana
— Let your clothes be a harbinger of your freedom
Gagan bhi kapkapayega
— Even the sky will shudder seeing it up close
Agar teri chunar giri to ek bhukamp aayega
— And if it ever falls, the earth will shatter
Ek bhukamp aayega
— And an earthquake will ensue
Tu khud ki khoj mein nikal
— Go on that quest to find yourself
Tu kis liye hatash hai
— Why have you lost hope?
Tu chal tere wajood ki samay ko bhi talash hai
— Move forward, even time wants to know you
Samay ko bhi talash hai
— Time wants to know your identity
Lakme fashion week winter festive 2018 moves to day three, while day two was dedicated to sustainable fashion, day three brings the key societal issue- that educate about the gender-based social biases.
Nachiket Barve, Arpita Mehta, and Shift
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Arpita Mehta
Shift
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R-Elan presents Nachiket Barve's 'Millennial Maharani' winter festive 2018 collection which takes inspiration from the globe-trotting Indian Royalty of the 20’s and 30’s.
At Arpita Mehta's W/F'18 collection the vibe was breezy, and the silhouettes effortless. The designer captured the effervescent spirit of Caprese with a fusion destination wear collection that spells feminine yet flirty.
SHIFT’s Cruise 19 collection that’s designed for the girl who wants to do everything at once. The brand’s love affair with midi dresses & the signature shift continues to evolve with wardrobe staples for today’s
Gender blurring- #Genderbender
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Bloni’s W/F’18 #genderbending collection “Neutral Human” symbolizes the wrath of all the atrocities experienced by humans due to biological, cultural and aesthetic differences.
The Pot Plant’s W/F' 18 100% Human collection as part of the #genderbender show comprises of easy separates and coordinates that are not driven by gender norm
Anaam’s W/F' 18 collections as part of the #genderbender show are inspired by ‘Behrupiya’ – an Impressionist in the traditional performing arts of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Bobo Calcutta presents W/F’18 ‘Ludicrous Legacy’ – a celebration of individual choices of the ludicrous legacies that people leave behind at the #genderbender showcase. Combinations
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Winners of The Platform presented by SmartWater, Ishanee and Aniruddh present Poochki’s winter festive 2018 collection Black Cloud at Lakmé Fashion Week which features artsy brush strokes, Sakshi and Swasti Shah present Shanti’s W/F’18 collection ‘Megh-Malhar’ crafted from discarded fabrics while Kanika Goyal presents her edgy silhouettes accented with graphic art that’s inspired by cloud.
Kartikeya, Gaurang and Two-point-two
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Kartikeya's W/F'18 collection 'Heroine of the Opera' emulates an old world nostalgia interspersed with the powerful theatrics of the European opera culture in the late 1700s through grand silhouettes.
At Lakme fashion week winter festive 2018, Gaurang gives an ode to the superstar of the South-Indian film industry Savitri. The collection sees the return of the retro-glam with a revival of the South Indian silks and textiles.
Two Point Two's W/F'18 collection 'Simultaneity' pays tribute to the traditional agender Japanese garment ‘Kimono’. The collection deconstructs sophisticated formal wear into chic streetwear
Mohammad Mazhar and Arman Radhwa
Mohammad Mazhar-Rafugar
Arman Randhwa-twin queen
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For W/F'18 Mohammad Mazhar was inspired by the savior of cloth – the 'Rafugar' . The collection showcases lots of Rafugar-inspired embroideries in a red, black and white color palette at Lakmé Fashion Week.
Twin queen' is Armaan Randhawa's dedication to late designer Alexander McQueen. The W/F'18 collection is all about minimal, boxy and heavily embroidered silhouettes with edgy artwork
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