Travel Blog - Journey, Stories and Experiences

It's a lively evening, and everybody's in a great mood. Since this morning, I've been seeing people cleaning their houses because, you know, that's the first thing people do on a holiday. My neighbour's son comes running towards him, who is standing outside talking to another neighbour, "Papa, Mom is calling you!" "For what?" he says. "Something related to Dussehra.", he says and runs back into the house. Like every other family, this child has become the messenger between mom and dad. A fast messenger who will transmit the messages as they are until he crosses a certain age. After that, some of the messages may get corrupted and start to be more biased towards his choices and interests. If he wants to go to the market, the messages will become, "Something related to this and asking when will you go to the market".  The family has a plan to go to the fair and then to witness Ravana Dahan, which I overheard while looking at the...