Light of the Lamp

Hi friends,                  I left this space which was lying as a draft waiting for me for 6 months!! At that time, I would have thought to write about something which I obviously don't remember. When I checked the list of posts I published last year, I found that it was 12!! This is only the 3rd one and that too at the fag end of 2020. There was so much diversion for the past few months. For properly typing  an article in my blog, I prefer the desktop. I could not sit in front of desktop for the past few months! This year solely belonged to COVID 19 and it may still be so for some part of the coming year until the COVID vaccine reaches the common people all over the world. During the initial days of total lockdown, our country had negligible cases and there was no community transmission, but lot of fear around! But as the lockdown rules were relaxed slowly to get back the economy and life back to normal, the cases spread but the fear reduced. It was like there was no point sitti

Light of the Lamp: Our Europe trip - Part 1 Amsterdam : Dear friends,                      It has been quite a long long time since my last post here. I logged in here and found that I posted th...

Hi friends,                   As I write this, the entire world or most parts of the world are under lock down of varying periods imposed by Governments to save the humanity from that invisible virus which is now ruling the world! Corona, because it is shaped like a coronet, rules the world right now! Corona is a mystery, corona is invisible, corona is an enemy, corona is fascinating, corona is entertaining ( because we are all glued to the tv and social media absorbing everything about corona), corona is a peacemaker, corona is a leveler, corona is 2020's Olympics' single large player, corona is a killer, corona is for now invincible.                                What started off with flu like and breathlessness symptoms in the province of Wuhan rapidly spread across all parts of the world and most countries of the world are currently in the lockdown to stop the rapid spread through human contact. Social distancing, #stayhome, #staysafe, #savelives have become the new man

Hello,                   Happy New Year to everybody. Let this year bring us new hopes, peace, happiness and some more light in our lives. And what better way to start this year than writing something about the festival of Lakshadeepam (means lakhs of lights) which was celebrated last week in Sri Padmanabha Swamy temple of Trivandrum. I consider myself very fortunate that I was in Trivandrum this time of the year as this festival occurs only once in 6 years. My trip during this time of the year won't take place usually, but this one was half planned. I will be cherishing this trip for a long time as we had so much fun going for movies, attending a musical concert by Shri Sanjay Subramaniam, visiting the first ever wax museum in the city, making a trip to Jataayupaara (rock of Jataayu bird-the mythological bird of Ramayana), celebrating the Pongal festival with my parents, a meet up with my school friends.                              Every major festival in temples celebrated w