Spinner batsmen like Yuvi, Virat, Raina are key players for sure. But there will always be a position for a specialist spinner in the team. And to be there as a specialist spinner in Team India, my only strategy is hardwork...
Spinner batsmen like Yuvi, Virat, Raina are key players for sure. But there will always be a position for a specialist spinner in the team. And to be there as a specialist spinner in Team India, my only strategy is hardwork...
Rajo Festival: The people of Odisha have been celebrating the Rajo festival - a festival for girls.
During this time all women get to take a break from their daily work, including Mother Earth (there is no
sowing or plowing during these days). Typically, families hang make-shift swings from trees and the eldest
unmarried daughter comes out to swing on them. Girls of all ages are also celebrated with new clothes and sweets.
Like many cultural festivals, this one is laden with symbolism. Rajo means both dust and menstruation. So the idea
is that during the festival the earth experiences her menstruation and then soon after the monsoon rains will come
and she will become fruitful and fertile.
Devasnana Purnima: Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra will be escorted to the Snan Bedi (Bathing alter) in a colourful procession. The deities would then be given a grand shower with water fetched from the sacred suna kua. They would then don atteires resembling elephants.
Devasnana Purnima is the day the deities are bathed by 108 pitchers of water brought from the well near Sitala temple in the precincts of the Jagannatha temple. The deities bathe, dress up in the Gajanana or Ganesha Vesha and even their daily food offering or Bhogalagi is done in full public view on the Snanamandapa. Their remains no virtual difference between the devotees and their Lord. This day deemed to be the birthday of the Lord Jagannatha also accounts for the traditions followed before the Ratha Yatra.
Bhubaneswar, IN
