RaasaGarba

A tall man , wearing a long kurtha ,Newport jean , a dark rimmed spects , slight stuble , a moss green wildcraft bag behing his back , detective style look.

A tall man , wearing short Kurtha , Blue jean , silver rimmed speckts , Dil Chahta Hai style beard, stylish look.

A not so tall man , wearing black trouser , stylish white kurtha , thick mustache ,
passionate look.

Its the Awesome Threesome PV , Prasad and CHandu again . As we enetered the RaasaGarba floor Iam sure we broke the hearts of all the young women out there . VIce versa is also true lot of well clad , good looking young & old beautiful female population broke our hearts too. The live music playing beats with a high pitched voice singing , our bodies started swaying in rythmic fashion to the beats of the music forgetting ourselves .

The Name given to the style of the dance was Dandia. But we did all kinds of steps out there rotating in the circle to the beats they were playing . EVen though prasad was little apprehensive at the beginning , he picked up the steps pretty fast and was enjoying. It was bit easy for me to pick up those steps which looked pretty ordinary , but doing in the group was a great experience. Chandu started his own style of dance and was fully involved in innovating new steps .

At the beginning we didnt have any sticks in our hand , it was just rotating in circle and
clapping the hands to the beat . All girls out there also mixed quite well and was part of the group doing the steps . It was the first time for me dancing with a totally unKnown group with such an alarming numbers almost filling the dance floor . Smiling at others , exchanging glances and waiting for reciprocation was part of the game and I should say it was pretty good for a week end .

Then came the best of the lot , dancing to the tunes in pairs . Girls forming the inner
circle and Guys forming the outer circle , with dandia sticks in our hands playing dandia to the
divine tunes . Girls moving in the clock wise direction and guys in the anticlock wise direction. It
just crossed my mind while dancing why down south in India there were no such traditions . As we were dancing each one spread out somewhere in the circle , a girl instead of hitting the sticks in my hand hit the hand directly. Then she broke out into a huge smile and I was fida over the smile. Her smile hitting my heart hurt me more than the sticks hitting the hand.

With every cycle of the beat playing dandia synchronously with a different girl was a
different kind of experience altogether for me . There were few oldies too who were dancing
enthusiastically and Iam really flat for their enthu and styke of dance. There were also few who were dancing trying to show off .

Our traditions have lot of innersignificance in them . Dandia too must have a similar
significance. As I undertstand a Dandia Dance is describing the path to the Happy world . Dandia is dancing in accordance to the beat of the divine song (It also gets diluted by filmi songs these days) telling us that we are all bound and all we do is the dance to the tunes of Divine. The combination of Guys and Girls signifies the importance of the Male and Female combination in the master plan of GOD. The joy in dancing together to the tunes of master divine leading us to the joys of life. In Dandia One needs to understand what his partner is doing and synchronize with each other or else they end up hurting each other with the sticks . What a great Truth hidden .Even In Life one needs to understand his partner and syncronise or else we end up hurting each other.

It was a feast to the eyes (cross , yellow down & brown top ,silver sleeveless) ,feast to
the stomach (I , Bb ,B , C, S, D) , feast to the heart (joy of meeting friends ,c hatting and dancing
together) .A wholesome feast and entertainer. As the time was running past , It was the time for us depart said bye bye to few people whom we got introduced and the Awesome Threesome walked out of the dance floor taking away all the Joy with them. As if to show symbolically it was raining outside and walking back to home at midnight getting wet in rain was too good.

Chandu picking his bike and after hearing to our d0's & donts (Go slow , be careful.. Dont
drive fast ....) said good night and started of for his home . I and prasad walked to some distance
with prasad getting worried of catching cold took an auto and halted infront of prasads house. My night halt was at prasads house and wow it was a great great amazing saturday night. I lipped into the dream world thanking God for all he has given to Us.

PS :- Me waiting for the deadly photos chandus friend has taken while we were dancing.