From:  "Tripathy, Debasis (GEL, MSX)" <tripathy@l...>
Date:  Fri Dec 17, 1999  8:08 pm
Subject:  [oec98] kaalia pakha ku jai thili....

sanga mane,

i was in india for sometime..rather for a small time(time just passed

away).i had in my mind for quite some time to pay a visit to KAALIA...but

each time i could make it to ODISHA(not orissa)   i just couldnot make it to

"KAALIA'S CHARANA"owing to some insignificant things which killed my time

there.

THANK JAGAKAALIA I COULD MAKE IT THIS TIME!

And I started....NILA PATAKA BANA guided me..

there is a lovely place called PIPILI just twenty kms away bhubaneswar(not

bhunswar :-) ) wherein i bought some chanduas(guess it's the right plural)

which have ,back here, become a great hit ! (i gifted that to my "GORI

AMERICAN CLIENT"  n few other firangees(right one...check whether this

plural is okay!))..enof of pipili...

tapare chotta break: paida(coconut) pii li :-)  AAHH!

then driving through saakhigopal and batamangala("mobile PRANAM") i finally

reached there....my destination..SHREEKSHETRA...SINGHADWARA.

to my delight it turned out to be KARTIKA PURNIMA.. ...i earned some

PUNYA(..hopefully i'll be cremated at SWARGADWARA ;-) )

                                              i tell u what...puri has got a charm of it's

own...there is something which makes you forget the dirt,the crowd,the

inconvenience, the noise(i am excluding JAGA'S BHAJANA OFCOURSE)...infact

everything .....i swear there is something..maybe divine...maybe there is

something which makes you blind,deaf and ofcourse you are dumbfounded before

HIS greatness .you feel like staying back atleast returning once again....

You even forget about PANDAS(not rama panda) and let them cheat you...all in

the name of god (menna say ama KAALIA)

well there are some guys who find this very foolish.maybe i've turned into a

fool blind.

but i can't help it.

JAGA AAGA RE KAHA RA CHALE.SE SABU THARU BADA HERO.

POSTSCRIPT:  the author of this indistinct piece listens to SREE JAGANNATH

bhajan and is in deep repentance that he could not eat SREE

MAHAPRASAD(abhada) on that fateful day....he can not even  have pakhala here

..thankfully there is a temple in cleveland where LORD JAGGANATH resides

with his elder brother and younger sister(no marks for guessing their names

correct)

HAPPY ENDING....

Please don't send back any comments and if some of you can't understand some

odiya words or just forgotten them ask any  odiya toka.