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| Sep 03, 2007 11:17 am |
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Happy fiesta!! |
Pushpa Moorjani
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Today is 'Sataiy', a celebration days for Sindhis. I visited my sister and I had Mitho Lolo, rice-mustard curd, pakoras, potato bhaji.. puris, dhal paratha,……everything cold. We are supposed to eat cold food for the whole day….
All my elders are gone and the celebration of these festivals, which our families used to enjoy, are also diminishing…
I remember, when I was a kid, this festival used to be celebrated with much fun and frolic. Mom would make the food one day before on kerosene stove and then she would put the red tikka and rice on the stove. The stove would be then declared cold and nothing would be cooked on it for the next day.
An evening before, She would make a great variety of food like dhal paratas, sai Bhaji, pakoras, rice-matho, sweet lolo. All the extended family would be invited to our house. There would be some pooja in the house and the pundit would come home. Everybody would eat this cold food and then all the family members would play cards the whole day. We kids would get kharchi from everybody and the day would pass with lot of masti.
But now, with all the elders gone away forever, and the extended family distributed around the world, and youngster, unaware of our culture, this is just one another day……
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