Hindu festival

Tonight the streets were filled with the loudest music you could imagine coming from a Cart with about 8 huge trumpet speakers and a uniformed band playing drums and cymbals. 

The lights along the road were lit in celebration.  A palanquin containing the female deity was carried by smartly dressed men who stopped at various shops and restaurants along the road to have food blessed.  Bhoumika is on a five day tour of 

the neighbourhood and each night she sleeps in a different local temple. She will eventually return to the mother temple. 

The food is placed in front of her for a moment or two, in order to be blessed,  then retrieved and taken home. Sweetmeats are handed out along the way to bystanders. 

A sour old Englishman complained that this would cause even more traffic jams!

I had Tasty Goan fish curry tonight with rice and curd.