Harish Palaniappan's

Its that time of the year in India. Armed with weapons of all sorts ranging from atom bombs to electric bombs, and including the pepsi or coke bottle based rocket launchers, all hindu families in India (that means 80% of the population), demolish the streets, and roads in India. Its Diwali.. the Dhamakedar 'festival of lights' which underwent obvious exxageration over the years, and became the 'festival of crackers'.

Diwali, or Deepavali in the south, or Dhantheras for the shopping freaks, it has many names, and an historical story where some god destroyed evil on this day and asked the people of the world (indian hindus basically) to celebrate it as a festival of lights, in significance of the dawn after the destroyance of evil.

Yes, yes, dusshera is also a festival in celebration of destroying evil, and so are many hindu festivals.. we believe in destroying evil that many times in a year to make for 12 to 22 days of holidays in a year.

Anyway.. the story here is about the dogs, the canine lot in India spending a frightful, shivering 2 or 3 days, rightfully scared at the never-ending loud diwali blast.

You might have a dobberman, an Alsatian, or Boxers, and the lots.. why not, even be it Lions, they all think the world is coming down with every blast, and somebody is attacking their territory with those weapons.

Some dogs take shelter under the bed for days, even insisting on this food plate being shifted to the same under-the-bed place, .. and some try to brave it for a what? max 4-5 hrs and keep barking at the direction from where the blast noise emanates. .. and some run helter-skelter within the house where its bred trying to check whether everything is still ok after the blast... may be these few dog guys think that everything is rocking and its their responsibility to save the world from this one now.

For them its not festival of lights, its festival of .. whatever.. they are scared to talk about it.

HAPPY DIWALI.. and wish your doggie, puppie, munna, buji, all the same.