Basant

Yellow was the color of the day last Tuesday. I was invited to join up with an interesting group of people to celebrate the coming of spring in a traditional Basant festival. The event was organized by Himanshu (the guy dressed in brilliant yellow) who runs an art organization called Red Earth.

Thankfully Shumita, the friend who invited me along, had a yellow shawl to lend me! We met in the beautiful Lodhi Garden where we all sat in a big circle while Himanshu gave a little talk explaining the history of the festival.

This being India, we were visited by the police claiming that we were not allowed to hold an "event" in the park... After listening to a story read by a lady about Basant festivals during her childhood and the riots and massacres that took place in India and Pakistan after partition and again in the 80's we walked (to the amusement of drivers on Lodhi Rd.) all the way to Nizamuddin. More on that in a later post, things are really busy at the moment trying to get the apt. renovation underway.