VISHUKKANI 2013

So this Vishu myself prepared the Kani.Actually I did not sleep at all last night lest I shall not wake early.Got up when it was quarter to three and freshened up.Everything was well set,I only had to light the lamp After watching the Kani at 3 .30 am , I dozed off and woke up at 9.30
.Here is how you can prepare a Kani with limited stuffs ;)

Shigmotsav- The Holi of Goa !

Last year during this time I was in Margao , Goa for an audit. Therefore I managed to get some glimpses of the Shigmotsav festival there. Theres something more to Goa than the Beer,Babes & Beaches. Apparently I got this opportunity after 2 weeks from the pooram which I covered earlier in 2012. To know more about it read on:)

Shigmo in Goa is esentially a festival of the masses. Though it is celebrated under different names and in different ways in various parts of India.

It is the festival of farewell to winter celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalguna (March), the last month of the Hindu calendar.

In Goa, the land of temples, Shigmo begins with Naman or collective obeisance of villagers from 9th moon day to full-moon day. During all these days, they are to shun non-vegetarian food and all intoxicants.

From the 11th Moon day to the 15th moon day, various village groups clad in their most colorful dresses set out with festive mood with multi-colored cloths, torans, flags and column-like red spoted "Dwajas", beating drums and blowing flutes to gather at the village temples, and dance in the temple court yard singing various folk songs to the beat of the drums.

On the 5th day comes the real day of rejoicing. It is called "Rang Panchami" - it is practised differently at different places. The main function of the day, however, is the profuse use of 'Gulal' or red-powder. It's a symbol of rejoicing, when people throw it on each other as a sign of full-hearted greeting.

A spectacular display of Goan Hindu ethnicity and mythology is on show as the annual Shigmo parade held centerstage on Panjim's 18th June Road.
Attired in traditional costumes, various folk groups consisting of women and men dancers give vibrant performances of various dances. These are interspersed with mell groups that move along the route with their traditional Goan drums.
The grand finale is always provided by artistically designed and beautifully lit up floats. The parade is also held on a lesser scale in Ponda, Vasco, Margao and Mapusa.

Dates for Shigmo Float Parade 2013
28/03/2013 - Ponda
29/03/2013 - Pernem
30/03/2013 - Panjim
31/03/2013 - Mapusa
01/04/2013 - Vasco
02/04/2013 - Bicholim
03/04/2013 - Sanquelim
04/04/2013 - Valpoi
05/04/2013 - Curchorem
06/04/2013 - Sanguem
07/04/2013 - Margao
08/04/2013 - Quepem
09/04/2013 - Cuncolim
10/04/2013 - Canacona

Courtesy : Dept.of Tourism,Govt of Goa

Chalissery Pooram

  In India if you haven’t seen a Pooram then you are missing something. To be in the middle of this pandemonium itself is a great thing. Its been quiet a while since I was longing to see a Pooram. Pooram is a kind of temple festival celebration across central Kerala(Malappuram,Thrissur,Palakkad).

My pal Padmasoorya called me for the 26^th Feb 2012 pooram, which was apparently very close from his house .

I didn’t have the slightest idea that I can reach there as I was part of a team  entrusted with  an audit assignment at Chikmaglur,Karnataka.

Well on 25^th Feb 2012 I left from Chikmagalur at 3.30AM towards destination Shoranur with Mangalore as my pitstop. (I did get permission from my audit manager to attend my cousins wedding at Palakkad )

Now let me tell you about this pooram

Mulyamparambath Pooram or Chalissery Pooram is a festival organised at the Mulyam Parambath Bhagvati temple situated in Chalissery Village surrounded by Palakad and Trissur districts.Chalissery is located 10 kms from Kunnamkulam.The temple boasts of a huge ground (poora paramb) where scores of elephants assemble as apart of the ritual.These elephants are ornately decorated and is paraded in procession.To add more vibrance you have this percussion or Melam .Hmm I was loving it. Once the temple ritual was  over its Showdown Time(Vedikettu  aka Fireworks).. What I could learn was that Chalissery Fireworks were actually better than Trissur Pooram and  was average compared to Uthralikaavu Pooram at Wadakancheri .

Honestly speaking I could not the withstand the vedikettu for a long time (BoomBang!!).I enjoyed my first experience in capturing this chaos... Awesome it was.. Thank you  Govind Padmasoorya for everything :)

These are the visuals what I could get on that eventful day. Indulge yourself  :) 

Padmasoorya with a filmy pose

60+ Elephants in a row

All those white glittering spots are that of the cellphones which the public was using to shoot the fireworks.

Pooram kazinja pooraparamb  / Pooram ground after the celebration is over

When Science met Spirituality!

Today being the 134th birthday of Albert Einstein once again l'm posting about him (pls bear with me).The number 134 anagrams to 314 or 3/14.  Apparently today is March 14th as well.Therefore it is the 3/14 day or the Pi Day.(If you wish to call so,you are free to do so )Yes, you are right. I should not be here crunching numbers instead I should be solving the metaphysical problems of the world with the above sort of reasoning!!!  .
This post is from excerpts of Dr David L Gosling's work Science & The Indian Tradition:When Einstein met Tagore. Now you see for yourself what happened when two Nobel Laureates, two great souls the world has ever witnessed Einstein and Tagore having a chat about truth and beauty which collides and converges at the scientific and spiritual intersection.
On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring the age-old friction between science and religion.

Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore recounts the historic encounter, amidst a broader discussion of the intellectual renaissance that swept India in the early twentieth century, germinating a curious osmosis of Indian traditions and secular Western scientific doctrine.
The following excerpt from one of Einstein and Tagore's conversations dances between previously examined definitions of science, beauty, consciousness, and philosophy in a masterful meditation on the most fundamental questions of human existence.

EINSTEIN: Do you believe in the Divine as isolated from the world?
TAGORE: Not isolated. The infinite personality of Man comprehends the Universe. There cannot be anything that cannot be subsumed by the human personality, and this proves that the Truth of the Universe is human Truth.
I have taken a scientific fact to explain this — Matter is composed of protons and electrons, with gaps between them; but matter may seem to be solid. Similarly humanity is composed of individuals, yet they have their interconnection of human relationship, which gives living unity to man’s world. The entire universe is linked up with us in a similar manner, it is a human universe. I have pursued this thought through art, literature and the religious consciousness of man.
EINSTEIN: There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) The world as a unity dependent on humanity. (2) The world as a reality independent of the human factor.
TAGORE: When our universe is in harmony with Man, the eternal, we know it as Truth, we feel it as beauty.
EINSTEIN: This is the purely human conception of the universe.
TAGORE: There can be no other conception. This world is a human world — the scientific view of it is also that of the scientific man. There is some standard of reason and enjoyment which gives it Truth, the standard of the Eternal Man whose experiences are through our experiences.
EINSTEIN: This is a realization of the human entity.
TAGORE: Yes, one eternal entity. We have to realize it through our emotions and activities. We realized the Supreme Man who has no individual limitations through our limitations. Science is concerned with that which is not confined to individuals; it is the impersonal human world of Truths. Religion realizes these Truths and links them up with our deeper needs; our individual consciousness of Truth gains universal significance. Religion applies values to Truth, and we know this Truth as good through our own harmony with it.
EINSTEIN: Truth, then, or Beauty is not independent of Man?
TAGORE: No.
EINSTEIN: If there would be no human beings any more, the Apollo of Belvedere would no longer be beautiful.
TAGORE: No.
EINSTEIN: I agree with regard to this conception of Beauty, but not with regard to Truth.
TAGORE: Why not? Truth is realized through man.
EINSTEIN: I cannot prove that my conception is right, but that is my religion.
TAGORE: Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experiences, through our illumined consciousness — how, otherwise, can we know Truth?
EINSTEIN: I cannot prove scientifically that Truth must be conceived as a Truth that is valid independent of humanity; but I believe it firmly. I believe, for instance, that the Pythagorean theorem in geometry states something that is approximately true, independent of the existence of man. Anyway, if there is a reality independent of man, there is also a Truth relative to this reality; and in the same way the negation of the first engenders a negation of the existence of the latter.
TAGORE: Truth, which is one with the Universal Being, must essentially be human, otherwise whatever we individuals realize as true can never be called truth – at least the Truth which is described as scientific and which only can be reached through the process of logic, in other words, by an organ of thoughts which is human. According to Indian Philosophy there is Brahman, the absolute Truth, which cannot be conceived by the isolation of the individual mind or described by words but can only be realized by completely merging the individual in its infinity. But such a Truth cannot belong to Science. The nature of Truth which we are discussing is an appearance – that is to say, what appears to be true to the human mind and therefore is human, and may be called maya or illusion.
EINSTEIN: So according to your conception, which may be the Indian conception, it is not the illusion of the individual, but of humanity as a whole.
TAGORE: The species also belongs to a unity, to humanity. Therefore the entire human mind realizes Truth; the Indian or the European mind meet in a common realization.
EINSTEIN: The word species is used in German for all human beings, as a matter of fact, even the apes and the frogs would belong to it.
TAGORE: In science we go through the discipline of eliminating the personal limitations of our individual minds and thus reach that comprehension of Truth which is in the mind of the Universal Man.
EINSTEIN: The problem begins whether Truth is independent of our consciousness.
TAGORE: What we call truth lies in the rational harmony between the subjective and objective aspects of reality, both of which belong to the super-personal man.
EINSTEIN: Even in our everyday life we feel compelled to ascribe a reality independent of man to the objects we use. We do this to connect the experiences of our senses in a reasonable way. For instance, if nobody is in this house, yet that table remains where it is.
TAGORE: Yes, it remains outside the individual mind, but not the universal mind. The table which I perceive is perceptible by the same kind of consciousness which I possess.
EINSTEIN: If nobody would be in the house the table would exist all the same — but this is already illegitimate from your point of view — because we cannot explain what it means that the table is there, independently of us.
Our natural point of view in regard to the existence of truth apart from humanity cannot be explained or proved, but it is a belief which nobody can lack — no primitive beings even. We attribute to Truth a super-human objectivity; it is indispensable for us, this reality which is independent of our existence and our experience and our mind — though we cannot say what it means.
TAGORE: Science has proved that the table as a solid object is an appearance and therefore that which the human mind perceives as a table would not exist if that mind were naught. At the same time it must be admitted that the fact, that the ultimate physical reality is nothing but a multitude of separate revolving centres of electric force, also belongs to the human mind.
In the apprehension of Truth there is an eternal conflict between the universal human mind and the same mind confined in the individual. The perpetual process of reconciliation is being carried on in our science, philosophy, in our ethics. In any case, if there be any Truth absolutely unrelated to humanity then for us it is absolutely non-existing.
It is not difficult to imagine a mind to which the sequence of things happens not in space but only in time like the sequence of notes in music. For such a mind such conception of reality is akin to the musical reality in which Pythagorean geometry can have no meaning. There is the reality of paper, infinitely different from the reality of literature. For the kind of mind possessed by the moth which eats that paper literature is absolutely non-existent
EINSTEIN: Then I am more religious than you are
TAGORE: My religion is the reconciliation of the Super-personal Man, the universal human spirit , in my own individual being.

Courtesy :Maria Popova & Natascha , brainpicking.org
Copyright: as published in
Dr David L Gosling's Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

50 Reasons Not To Date a Photographer !

50 Reasons not to date a photographer !

1. They rather hold their bulky camera, than hold hands with you.
2. On a romantic date, you’ll watch the sun go down and think “Wow this is gorgeous” and they’ll go “mirror lock, tripod, and stop down f/8 at 1/125.”
3. You’ll never be able to enjoy tv, movies, or magazines because they’ll point out all the visual flaws.
4. They like to sit in obscure coffee shop and voyeuristically watch people for great lengths of time.
5. If you’re taking a walk outside and you come across some “interesting light” they will make you sit/stand/pose in public so that they can take a photo.
6. You’ll never get to enjoy freshly cooked meals because they’ll spend 15 minutes taking 20 variations of the same dish with their iPhone.
7. They get angry when your friends go up to them and say “I am interested in photography, can you recommend a good camera for me?  Nothing professional I just want to take pretty pictures.”
8. You’ll wait longer for them to finish analyzing art in a museum than you’ll wait at the dmv
9. Same goes with old used bookstores.
10. When you think they’re giving you their undivided attention, they’re really wondering how they could fix you with a little Clone Tool and Patch Tool.
11. Or they are actually using you to not look so creepy as they people watch everything going on around you.
12. They rather drop $1,000+ on new glass than a purse for you. 
13. You can’t take a photo with them without taking at least five more.
14. If you ask them if you look fat, they’ll say “don’t worry I can photoshop you later.”
15. They’ll never photoshop something simple for you if the content is not up to their “standards.”
16. That photo they randomly took of you yesterday?  Good luck getting them to send it to you.
17. They spend all their time on the computer (and not for porn.)
18. They can’t have a normal conversation without throwing acronyms and random numbers in.
19. They still use film cameras.
20. They spend a lot of time with people cooler than you i.e. models, actors, musicians, successful rich people.
21. They’ll be fussy over the position of a common household object, like a coffee cup.
22. They won’t return your calls or text messages, but you can bet they’re still posting pics on Instagram.
23. They like watching old films that you’ve never heard or will ever understand.
24. They like looking at weird things in general.
25. Instead of having penis-envy, they have camera-gear-envy.
26. If there’s a natural disaster in a far away land, they’re already on a plane going over there.
27. Everything is watermarked.
28. They think everyone else’s photos suck.
29. They want to color correct a lot of scenes from Twilight and Jersey Shore.
30. They hate rainbows, especially ones spinning in a circle.
31. Whenever you’re in a group talking and the conversation goes deep, they’re taking notes in some form of Moleskine.
32. They use over priced Moleskine notebooks.
33. They like trespassing into old abandoned buildings filled with health hazards.
34. They always want to show a new photo they took, but don’t really care if you like it or not.
35. They hate your n00bie friend’s new artsy profile picture.
36. Bright, sunny days make them sad, but cloudy, overcast days are apparently great!
37. They’ll take you into places that have “culture” as well a high chance of getting mugged.
38. Your birthday present will be a portrait that they’ve taken of you.
39. You can’t go anywhere new without them stopping to take a photo of everything and anything.
40. They will always bug you to be a test subject.
41. Nothing can ever be naturally pretty, everything must be fixed in Photoshop.
42. Bringing their camera means, bringing 50lbs of equipment.
43. If you break any of their things on accident, you’ll owe them thousands of dollars.
44. You can’t get them a birthday/Christmas present without spending at least $500
45. They are natural hoarders, collecting and keeping piles of old newspapers, packaging, magazines, and other things that “inspire” them.
46. They are weird and geeky.
47. They have hard drives of photos, but probably have printed 10 images.
48. They are always secretly judging your creativity.
49. If you’re ever in auto mode, they laugh at you.
50. They orgasm every time they learn a new lighting technique.

Source:http://notastarvingartist.com

Thank you Lolakutty ..for this awesome pose!!!

Thoughts from Einstein's mind as extracted!

Being a person from finance background,  never did  I have much interest in science, except for the shows in NatGeo & Discovery which I watch with great awe.
Science had a good stay with me till I departed with it after my 10th standard.
I chose commerce stream not because I scored less in science,  actually I hated to draw diagrams since there is virtually less scope for creative freedom.Now my creative freedom is limited to interpreting the IncomeTax Act and  cooking up financial statements(seriously-just joking).
This morning I woke up having strange thoughts on dream,  reality and Einstein.
Einstein had always inspired me by his vivid thoughts on science and spirituality. Apparently next week on March 14 th is his birthday.Oops! Did Einstein come in my dream to remind me about this. ???Forget it.Probably it  might be his theory of relativity working which I dont know.
So Dear Readers, this post is to engage yourself with the quotes of Shri. Albert Einstein on life and all the other stuffs under the universe.

★"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

★ "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

★ "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

★ "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

★ "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

★ "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

★ "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

★ "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

★ "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

★ "God is subtle but he is not malicious."

★ "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

★ "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

★ "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

★ "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

★ "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

★ "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

★ "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

★ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

★ "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

★ "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

★ "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

★ "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

★ "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

★ "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

★ "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

★ "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

★ "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

★ "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

★ "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

★ "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

★ "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

★ "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

★ "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

★ "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

★ "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

★ "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

★ "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

★ "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

★ "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

★ "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

★ "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

★ "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

★ "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

★ "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

★ "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

★ "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

★ "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

★ "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

★ "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

★ "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

★ "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

★ "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

★ "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

★ "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

★ "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Quotes published by Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

A visit to meet the charioteer,Guruvayoor

Arjun at West Nada ,Guruvayur

On February 2nd 2013 I headed towards Guruvayur from Mangalore as I had to attend my friends wedding there. Once I got down at Kuttipuram curious as always managed to go to Mukuthala Bhagavati Temple ,Kaavu (sacred groves)and premises and that was unfruitful as it was closed during 11AM.
From there I boarded a wrong bus from Changaramkulam and got down at Kunnamkulam.Yes,even if you know malayalam properly,sometimes shit happens.Finally reached Guruvayoour by noon.The most interesting part of this visit was that I met my neighbours in Dubai with whom I bid bye 12 years ago. Spent some joyful moments there . Sethu uncle & Radhamani aunty did not forget any of my pranks. They sighed and said,'How fast kids grow up!'.
With a cup of tea from there,I moved towards PunnathurKotta aka AnaKotta aka AnaThavalam..Approx 5 kms from the temple ,This is a must see place for all those who love pachyderms.Err.. I meant elephants.
70+ elephants in an area of 22acres. Apparently all of them are the ones which are gifted to Lord Guruvayurappan.This place was once occupied by the Punnathur Rulers .After the demise of the last King Godavarma Valia Raja ,the temple took over the premises in 1976.Punathur Kotta is also a mahout training centre..

I could not stop smiling after leaving from that place.  Some beautiful baby elephants made me go weak in my knees .They were God damned cute. Then after 6PM to 9.30PM went inside to meet my charioteer.Those were our private moments.Carefully listened to whatever he had to say . Nodded to him and reminded him of my November exams .I knew that it was impossible to get in on a Sunday morning inside,hence I spend some more time inside.
Later Anup Chacko joined me .He came from Kochi.Anup Chacko is an ace photographer who just finished his work for ABCD, malayalam movie.The next morning we both  started experimenting a lot with aperture , shutter speeds,whitebalances . GPS also arrived for the event. GPS has always been a mentor rather than a friend to me. He just finished the shooting for his new movie 72Model,malayalam, and there he is.We guys had a good time together.GPS had to leave early.Even after the event Anup & myself did not stop experimenting

f/1.8,1/250sec, at a bronze lamp shop

Anup Chacko at East Nada ,Guruvayur

At AnaKotta

I bath ,myself

                                      and thats how you squeeze a lemon at1/4000 of second

Cant imagine staying infront of this car for close to 30 minutes for getting this above 2 shots.The pujari complained about the first coconut as it was a fake one.Apparently it indeed was a fake one.When he broke it found out that it was a decayed one.The owner of this Hyundai Elantra had to rush to each and every shop there asking "Chetta Thenga undo?" Do you have coconuts here.. finally he managed to get one .The pujari was excited with his new found coconut tand readily did with the vahana puja rituals .I was on the floor with Anup to get this last shot for the day.

With this I left to Kuttipuram to catch the train towards Mangalore and Anup left towards Ernakulam as he was a having a shoot the same night.
Once again that was bliss visiting Guruvayurappan this time..