It's still raining!!! It never rains this much here. The newspaper says that this is definitely the most rain we've had in 15 (or more) years!! We usually only get rain about 2 times a year, so the city really isn't set up for this much rain! This morning Aashini and I were in a rickshaw and we had to go through HUGE areas of water! The water was coming into the rickshaw! It was crazy!! Anyway, lots of rain has been messy, but fun :)
This year, our neighborhood was quite active for Dusshera. At one end of our street, one of the major political parties here, set up a Dusshera celebration. Here are some guys putting the effigies together and filling it full of fireworks! They had quite the political statement for their celebration. (Basically that expensive water, fuel, electricity, diesel, gas, etc and FDI (bringing in foreign companies like Wal-Mart) are like Raverna (the demon god)... and are the evils of today....) Here's their set-up at the end of our street.... you can't see it very well, but they had all three effigies there that they burned.... They burned VERY quickly at this one... So quickly that by the time I pulled out my camera, it was already on the ground!! Our street looked like those CNN videos of rioting cities :) haha!! There was burning stuff all over the street :) Many people will get a piece of the leftover wood/bamboo to keep in their house for the comi
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