Dussera Celebrations

Dussera Celebrations

Dussera: Globally known better as the festival of Godess Durga, the mother godddess in Hinduism, Dussera, or Vijay Dashami has immense significance in India.



















In Maharashtra we have a certain significance of Dussera, (or Dashera, spell it in whatever manner; has same significance) towards EQUIPMENT especially MARTIAL EQUIPMENT. In older times it also signified worship of WAR EQUIPMENT, just before entering into battle. Traditionally Maratha Warriors used to undertake simollanghan – Crossing the Border – to ransack the enemy territory. Hence before such an exercise or adventure it’s always better to worship and prepare the equipment. Basically carry out a servicing, oil change, tyre inflation check, slime deployment and Tanking up. Buses, trucks and huge machines in factories are all decorated and worshipped.

I too started off my day with actually getting up and cleaning up my three brutes or should I call them babies! After a good wipe down, I decorated each of them with garlands and flowers. Worshipped them in my own small way. Cranked each engine into life and switched on the lights, horn etc to carry out the routine pre-flight checks.

Once all the bikes were done I kept them back nicely tucked away in their respective places in the Parking lot and then proceeded to go and inspect the next one which was to come and join the family the next day. Watch this space for more on the mystery addition.


















After the pooja, the rest of the day was spent well shopping and frolicking around with my niece. I introduced her to pillion riding and she has suddenly developed a craze for the same. I am actually wondering if she does grow up to be a BN or a BN crazy fan!. She also managed to coax it out form me that once she turns 18 I need to buy her a moto scooter. Well Well. Lets see..was all that I said but I could see the budding Biker in her trying to unfold her wings.

That evening I got my Dusserra gift, Thanks to my better half for taking the initiative. I added a few scale models to my ever growing collection and also ended up getting the Ultimate history of FAST Bikes – a book by Roland Brown
























Catch More Pics of the Festivities HERE