Kadlekai Parshe.. @ namma bengaluru

Life's another sunday.. Just attended a wedding and we took Bull temple road on the way back.. It was the eve of Karthika Somavar (last monday of Karthika month).. The heaps of groundnuts on the road spoke enough to let the people know that one of great festivals at Bangalore called "Kadlekai Parshe" (Groundnut Fair) was on. This fair is not just one among the great festivals but also one among the oldest annual events.

The fair has its history.. The Bull temple area was earlier a village called "Sunkenahalli" where groundnuts were grown. Strangely every year before the harvest, the crop would get destroyed at night and villagers suspected that a bull strayed into the fields. They started pelting stones at the animal. However, the villagers came to know that it was Lord Shiva who came in the form of a Bull to keep a watch over the fields. Villagers who realised their mistake decided to make up by dedicating the first groundnut crop to the bull.... Every year the Bull temple area is dressed with groundnuts during this auspicious day of last Karthik Somvar.

Many farmers and traders put up their stall during this two day festival.

These days additional food items like groundnut masala, mixture, cotton candy, Sweet candy, juice, ice creams would also delight the visitors.

You would also witness varieties of accesories like necklace, rubber bands, ear rings, dolls, idols, ceramics, rangoli stencils, kitchen accessories, colorful artificial flowers and many more items.

There are fun fairs attached.. Ring gamble, merry go round, gaint wheel, Baloons, soap bubbles are exciting hopstops for the kids..

A visit to the Dodda Ganapathi and Bull temple leaves a note of heritage Bangalore.

Traditional India comes alive in such festivals...

Incredible INDIA..:-)

Thoughts on Simplicity

My passion to see simplicity through my camera has evolved to quite a good shape by now. A human tendency is to complicate simple thoughts. Let us reverse this tendency to "Simplify our Complicated thoughts". I felt the coolest way to do this is through pics!! Here are a few pics taken and edited by me.

Hold back, watch them carefully, apply the simple messages and lead a fruitful life :-)

Hope this blog leaves an impact on you! Its quite simple. After all where ther is a will there is a way...

When you start to believe your ideas! You go ahead and leave a footprint for others to follow your thoughts! :-)

Thoughts on 90/10 principle

Hey guys! How many of us here don't crib when the flights get delayed, when there is a traffic jam, when there are power cuts, when there is no currency left and you had to talk to your GF/BF, when your kid is adamant to watch its favourite cartoon and its the last over in cricket match, when..... We never stop cribbing.

Well only 10% of our lives is made up of what happens to us i.e. We do not have any control over it. For example a flight got delayed and your schedule is a chaos now. What could you have done except, wait for the flight to arrive.

Beware! The rest 90% of our lives is decided by how we react i.e. We have absolute control over it. We determine this 90% by our reaction.

Let us quickly visualise a situation where you are having breakfast with your family. Your kid knocks over a cup of coffee on your shirt. You had no control over what happened. But how did you react?

You harshly yelled at your kid. The kid started weeping. You turned to your wife screaming for leaving the cup on the edge of the table. You curse both of them and storm to your room to change the shirt. You witness that the kid was too busy crying and missed the school bus. You rush to drop your kid to the school in the car and there is a lot of traffic. Finally you reach the school, your kid enters the building without waving. You then rush to the office and realise you've forgotten to take your laptop. Wow! What a way to start a day!

Now don't look amazed and say what else could I have done. Of course you could have and should have gently said "Its okay Honey! But be careful the next time" when the coffee splashed over this morning. You could have changed the shirt and got back to the breakfast table. You would have witnessed your kid waving a goodbye with a smile and boarding the school bus. You could have reached office and proceeded with your work. As simple as that. But you ruined your day yourself.

Its 2 scenarios. Both started the same! Yet it ended differently.

Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, heart aches and problems.

Learn the 90/10 Principle, apply it and change your life :-)

It takes only will power to give ourselves permission to make the experience :-)