I walk into office on a Monday and find a mail from my better half. It’s a lovely pamphlet of a 12-day event near my place – Mahabharatha rediscovered. Me and one of my good friend and colleague decide to attend that evening’s program. We plan to leave office by 5 and, surprisingly we beat Murphy’s Law and actually leave by 5. Of coarse the traffic delayed us and we got there a good half hour late.
The place was a huge open ground covered in a really nice pendal and good seating arrangements also! We buy a pack of steamed ground nuts (some thing I have not eaten for some time now) and settle down. My companion was good and got an extra cover to put the peels and keep the place litter free. I am very pleased with her for that.
There was an initial Rajasthani dance sequence. Frankly, didn’t really understand much of it. However the last part was really nice watching all the women folk in their beautiful dress, mirror work and nice folk art prints on it. Then the governor of Bihar - a north Indian state – Rama Jois, was called upon the stage to give a speech. My colleague and me were thinking what he would understand the Kannada invitation – lo and behold. He delivers a crisp, super charged, beautiful masterpiece in the most eloquent Kannada that I have heard. This was on of the best speeches I have heard – that too from a politician. It was only later the next day that we realized that governors are chosen from a different state and Mr. Rama Jois is actually from Karnataka.
The final event that night was a fantastic puppet show. It was in the lovely Yakshagana style. It was nice, really really nice. I can only say, see it to feel it… I can still recall the resonant voice of the narrator every time I think of the show.
I return home having decided to attend all the events. Murphy obviously caught up with me the next day and stayed till the end of the events…
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