The narcissist.1.i.i(Durga puja)

I don't like durga puja, not as much as the other folks here do at least.Then again i never had friends who i could go "pandal hopping" all night with and even if i did have some, i am not sure if daddy-dearest would allow it.My experiences with the pujas have been limited to say the least,usually restricted only to an occasional evening trip and the morning anjali.My dad tried to do the best he could but he was nearly always ill and despite being the sadist that I am i didn't want him to be sicker because of me.However its not just because of my limited experiences of it that I don't like the pujas .Mindless crowd-bashing ,dancing ,smoking,drinking and loud bollywood music could never figure in my definition of having a good time ,not by a long shot.The one of the only things I like about the pujas are the dhaks .I have never claimed to be a spiritual person but I think a good dhaki can give anyone an intellectual orgasm.Something i thought only pink Floyd could do.The thing is with the sheer number of people fighting it out in the pandal ,reveling at the dhaks gets rather difficult.I am serious,the bengali aunties in a puja pandal would make the blokes at a mosh pit wet their pants. The only thing in your mind then is getting your ass(intact) out of there.The dunuchi naach looks pretty cool but when you're a guy who has never danced in his entire life anything remotely related to shaking a leg can give you serious panic attacks,especially if it involves fire and smoke and people staring.The thing i hate most about the pujas however are the people some of them are drunk ,most of them are rude and nearly all of them stink.So would i if i had to wrestle my way through a thousand people every time i visited a Pandal .The music gets to my head And my ears and by the time I get home I feel like a villain from a 90's bollywood flick ,beaten to pulp while the rest of the world dances to bad music .

p.s - I love these trademark durga eyes , They seem to be this epic celebration of feminine power .No where else in the world does one find , female power glorified to this extent.The western world has for centuries regarded the fairer sex as weak.Little wonder that jesus ,moses and allah were all men .It took the twentieth century to make them realize the potential of women.In india ,we knew this for centuries. I wish we didn't though , Mudiali had atleast a million people yesterday.My precious zodiac shirt now looks like a floor mop.So much for phemale empowerment.