After few weeks of hectic work, Its really time for desperate refreshment. I planned to join my friend (native pondy) in pondy for weekend. It was last mintue plan, manage to get to and fro tickets on Friday, I started from Bangalore on Friday night and reached pondy by 6:30 am SAT, it was Vinayaka chavithy day.
My friend came and picked me at stop, before going to his house we had bed tea (without brushing) at arubindo ashram, and reached home after few mintes, It was small and cute family of my friend, he his Akkha, Amma & Appa. Had small nap again after reaching.
Its ganapathi pooja time, i went along with my friend to buy Pilliyar (ganesh), instantly made really fresh clay Pilliyar and eco friendly no "Plaster of Paris", i was suppried to see few forigners buying the ganash idols and pooja saaman, and a looks like old germen, capturing all aound that MG Road in his camara. After pooja is perfomed by my friends appa in house with several ingredients , decorated with severl jewels and flowers, we headed for delicious typical tamil lunch with sambar, kolumbu, paisam etc. I had it to my maximun capacity but still they felt that i didnt had properly out of shy.
In the evening, we visited really intersing place with few other friends of my friend. Actually i didnt understant why these many froginer of diffent races are living in pondy.
It is all about AUROVILLE.
"Pondicherry may be French; Pondicherry may be Tamil—but it is also home to an unusual international community named Auroville"
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| The Matrimandir |
AUROVILLE, Its simply different from rest of the world, and really only one of its kind in the world. Auroville is simply a model village, belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. It is strange to see kids of different races (White, Black, Indian) attending school in "Mud Huts" built comletely eco-friendly. Anything in this village is eco frienldy from mud road to buildings, The Matrimandir, a golden metallic sphere in the center of town has foundation built with soil brought from almost 120 countries in world. Unfotunatly i missed opputunity to go inside that manidir as we were late. Outsides are allowed only before 3:00 pm. We have taken few snaps and had Herbel tea (frankly i didnt like it, but that is how your s
acrifice counts in mother nature)
We had small party in the night, and saw someone live music at SeaGulls, It rained heavily, power cut allover, I will never forget our fight for muttai doosa at rollex hotel in the late night, and a friends (pasu) great pissing adventure in front of the city cop in that darkness. Day ended with few giggles and good thills. On next day (sunday) visited beach in pondycherry, took some snaps, played cricket in law college with few friends. Its time, i had my dinner (mottai doosa) in house and my friend dropped me at bus to banglore in heavy rain, i left pondy with word "Nanben da" :)
