celebration weekend

home

a relatively low-key diwali at least. dad is in china and the only real festivity happened on friday evening with the annual lighting of the lamps on our street. for a change this time shyam and me had not done our job of driving to the railway station and buying the lamps. instead in the evening, i drove three of the kids from our building and they negotiated the price and bought wax lamps. the first step in passing the baton. next year, they wont need us. in fact they did a pretty good job of laying down the lights and decorating the rangoli that the girls had drawn on the badminton court.

court

mom, gangadharan

yesterday night was pramod mamas 50^th birthday; and the celebrations this time were held in a hired floor at the club millennium, juhu. all his friends and extended family from far off lands had arrived to dance and sing and eat. as is traditional in our overly theatrical family, a skit was written in his honor that sketched out his ‘life so far’ in the teasing sarcastic affectionate way that seems to be the tone for all our family functions. the poor guy had to reenact a hawaiian dance performance from his childhood with swaying hips, a halo and two white wings aattached to his back. i was also enlisted as item number with ‘bachna ae haseeno’ and then later with ‘kajra re’ as abhishek, with nitin playing amitabh and apurva aishwarya . much dancing followed. and much drinking too. more fun than i dared imagine.

lobby - club millenium

sunita 'maushi'?

apurva

rohan anand nikhil

rahul tanay

aaji sushma dancing

kumud and suman aajis dancing..

and some more.....