Nice movie - Awakening

Saw this movie this weekend. The Awakening.

Loved the movie.

It is a spooky movie and it built the atmosphere well. The kind of spooky movie, where they do not have gory faces - the kind that I like.

Loved everything except the last 20 minutes which I think became a bit predictable.

Overall - Enjoyable.

Clouds are back

We had a few days of sun. Yesterday morning was sunny.
From evening it was cloudy and in the night it rained a bit.

Back to the wet weather again.

Avatars of Vishnu - as per Devi Bhadwad Purana

Vishnu took the incarnation of Dharma; and had two sons , Nara and Narayana. Then, Vishnu was born as Dattatreya, son of Atri Risi. He was then born as Narasimha to kill Hiranyakashipu, as Vamama to defeat Bali. He was then born as Parasurama, then as Rama. Later Vishnu incarnated as Krishna and Arjuna who were Narayana and Nara born again. 

Vishwamitra - as per Devi Bhagwad Purana

There was king called Vishwamitra, who one day, while roaming around came across his kingdo, accidentally ended up at the hermitage of rishi Vasistha. The king bowed before the rishi, who invited the king and his followers for a meal. The sage had a cow, Nandini, from whose milk the sage prepared all the food for the king. The king wanted the cow, but the rishi refused to give it away. THe king offered a thousand cows in exchange, even that was refused. He even offered a million cows which was also refused. The king said he would carry the cow over by force.
The king tied a rope around the cow's neck and tried pulling it away. The cows bellowed loudly and two demons were born who attacked and destroyed the king's followers.
Humiliated and dejected, the king went off to the forests where he spent his days in meditation and later became a rishi.

Yesterday - 27th Nov

Got very late yesterday. A few mins before midnight.

Had been to an exhibition and then to a wedding. A Kannada Brahim Wedding Reception of a colleague - to be precise.

Exhibition was nice. It took me 2 hours to reach there and then an hour there, reached the reception around 8PM.

We started dining after greeting the newly wed couple.

Sitting on a table, after having had some paani puri, we were served very little quantities of some vegetables, one roti, one dosa and some rice. There were some sweets. Overall a different experience but very less food for any food gougers. 

American Baisakhi - Thanksgiving

Americans started Thanksgiving to thank the lord the harvest.
We do that many times in India - Pongal, Baisakhi, Posuh Parbon, Nabanna etc

Isnt it time we started having nation wide holidays for these?

Happy American 'Baisakhi' to all (Belated)

Last evening - 25 November

When I got home yesterday evening, I saw houses with the led lights on their balconies.
First I thought these Diwali lights, then I saw some houses which did not have lights during Diwali now had lights.
Ok, the lights must be for Guru Nanak - i thought.

I have a Sikh family staying near my house, so I wanted to see if they had lights on. No, their house was like any other day.

Then I figured out, yesterday was Tripuri Purnima.

It said that gods goes to sleep for four months,this is the day when they wake. This is why the Autumn Durga Puja is a akal (untimely) puja.

This is also the day when the Gods celebrate Diwali, as this day Shiva had destroyed Tripura with one single arrow. That is another story.

Some say this is the day Kartikeya killed Tarakasura.

In the south here, people will visit Shiva temples, light up their houses and read the Skanda Purana, which the people here called Kathika Puranam.