Just when your bank balance is recovering from the long Republic Day weekend, you begin to feel Valentine’s Dandiya exert pressure on your wallet.
Now before you chuckle, and point a finger, saying “Dandiya, that’s a typo,” let us clear it out. That’s not an error, and I mean what you read.
Have you ever wondered how similar Navratri and Valentine’s Day are?
One is a nine-day long festival which culminates in the worship of a goddess. The other is an eight-day long festival which also involves worshipping a goddess (read: girlfriend, wife).
The desi festival celebrates nine colours, which extols the many virtues of the goddess, whereas the videsi festival involves the giving of eight gifts which celebrates the many virtues of your partner.
So this Valentine’s Dandiya, let’s dance to the beat of coochie-coo and introduce an entirely new vocabulary for gifts. This will definitely save you from doing garba in every shop, hunting for that perfect gift.