Blast from the Past Thread #18!! Wedding Bells !! pg 132, ep 199 - Page 73

Originally posted by: samin6

My exam is tomorrow and the day after.

Originally posted by: Arshidiehardfan

Hi blasters,

I am gonna disappear from IF for some time now😔 I am facing few problems in my lifeNot so serious, still I am unable to handle my own problems 😔 I am so immature...

I will be traveling for a few days... will keep checking IF through mobile...

Keep sending me PMs friends...

Love you all blasters 🤗 You are all my wonderful virtual friends...

Happy Navratri blasters 😃

Originally posted by: samin6

My exam is tomorrow and the day after.

Originally posted by: Katelyn

Hi Indi and Blasters! Do we have a confirmation for the breather and for how long? Are we stopping at Episode 199? Sorry since I've been skipping around the thread and don't have a clue! 😳

Originally posted by: indi52

but here we are still talking about it after an yr almost, as it hit all the right chords initially that no other story ever did.

horizon,

i just stole this from a conversation you were having witharshi.

yes... as.no.other.story.ever.did.

that was it. never have i ever felt this way... and somewhere it holds the story of my life, maybe all ours. one can think of actions, intentions, life, love, need, giving, taking, injustice, justice, material wealth, spiritual wealth, truth, falsehood, belief, class, religion, ritual, devotion... i could go on... all the things that we humans must think of, do think of,via this tale of a man and a woman and a world around and a world within...

in mysterious ways do meaningful things find their way to us.

durga comes to us on a different vehicle every year they say. perhaps truth came to us on a tv serial, who knows. seems durga ma is coming on a cradle this year (signifies destroy, don't ask me why) and returns on elephant (agricultural improvement).

i am considered utterly lunatic spending this kind of time on ipk. it is all about barun some think. yet is it? yes, he keeps me here... but barun is a fabulous vehicle too perhaps for that message that is trying to reach me? yes i know that sounds cuckoo. the boy as the ultimate medium. hyuk... full page ad anyone?

and if anyone, including makers and barun and sanaya, thinks hey guys, this is just a serial nothing more, i have no problems with that. i see more in it and that's what counts. once you make something, that has a life of its own, even a creator doesn't have all control over it... frankenstein yaad hai? many lessons there... and a monster in pain.

Originally posted by: wiwy

In di, Durgey, Issk, Arshi, Chalhov thanks for sharing your fond memories of the Pujas! Thanks for your good wishes Cyn! In di is 100% correct! Durga Puja in Calcutta is a lifetime experience!

Above all it is a feeling! It is in the air, if you know what I mean! 9th October is panchami, the first day of the pujas, though the main days are shasti, saptami, ashtami and dashami!

People visit pandals, where the pratima/ murti is kept, by the hundreds, starting from the wee hours of the morning till very late at night! It is a never ending process! Nowadays the pandals are decorated as theme pandals! And each one is a masterpiece! Prizes are awarded for the best pandal, best pratima/murti, best lighting and so on by the govt and various private companies!

The city is alive with mikes blaring Bengali and Hindi film songs, people in their finest vibrant attires(a new dress for each day of the puja, an unwritten law!), the first romances bloom among the young, those eyelocks at the puja pandals...uff!

And the thousands of makeshift eateris lined along the pandals with tonnes of people digging into them! Chat, Aludum, puchkas(golgappas), rolls, chowmein...and what not!

(It is also the only time my unromantic hubby holds my hand in public lest i get lost in the crowd!😉)

Please, please, please all Blasters you must come to Calcutta during the Pujas and stay on till Diwali and Karvachauth with me! I love celebrating them all!

I will post pics of the pujas to lure you guys to my den!😃 What say?

❤️🤗

Originally posted by: indi52

yes yes yes, super well said, horizon👏.👏... that "i do" was in that walk, in both their eyes and smiles. i didn't want to go mushier than what i already am, but i did think of a john denver song and i wanted to watch this walk go on for a long long time.


for baby (for bobbie)

i'll walk in the rain by your side,
i'll cling to the warmth your hand.
i'll do anything to keep you satisfied,
i'll love you more than anybody can.

and the wind will whisper your name to me.
little birds will sing along in time.
leaves will bow down when you walk by,
and morning bells will chime.

i'll be there when you're feelin' down,
to kiss away the tears if you cry
i'll share with you all the happiness I've found;
a reflection of the love in your eyes.

and i'll sing you the songs of the rainbow;
a whisper of the joy that is mine.
and leaves will bow down when you walk by,
and morning bells will chime.

i'll walk in the rain by your side.
i'll cling to the warmth your tiny hand.
i'll do anything to help understand.
and i'll love you more than anybody can.