An extraordinary phenomenon called Bengaluru Ganesha Utsava running for the 60th year now draws thousands to presentations by top artistes in extremely "rich"* settings. While listening to some of the stars of CM and HM online in this extravaganza, (last time I went there there was a lavish food court with every conceivable veg junk/darshini food), this subhashitam came to mind:
मर्कटस्य सुरापानं *****
मर्कटस्य सुरापानं तत्र वृश्चिकदंशनम्।
तन्मध्ये भूतसंचारो यद्वा तद्वा भविष्यति॥
"Imagine that a drunken monkey is bitten by a scorpion, and is meanwhile possessed by a ghost. Then what happens is nobody's guess!"
* Rich settings (What is going over the top? What is excess in a Concert?)
1. Jazzy LED screens all around projecting psychedelic images of geometric and symmetric figures spiral and eat themselves up with occasional Ganesha images zooming out.
2. Blast the music.
3. Create a "Woodstock" mood.
Post-edit: Did you zoom the pic to discover the musicians on stage?
