We have a new mall near our house!!! It's only 2 metro stops away from our house!!! It's not very big and only has 2 open stores in it right now, but it's AWESOME!!! One of the stores is a "mega store" (like a small Wal-Mart)! It's so fun and modern! They even have those fun shopping carts for kids with the cars!! It is awesome!! (can you tell I'm excited!?)
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...
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I've been such a non-commenter lately, but I've loved keeping up with all your fun in the States!!! Hope it was great to come back home!