Chucking Bananas for Shiva
February 19th 2007 We're still baffled as to why people queued to hurl bananas at the gigantic chariots but nevertheless we dutifully joined in the religiuous fervour. Surely there was some deeply symbolic significance to the bananas but the real reason eluded us and the process appeared to resemble a cross between target practice and a food fight.
The great wooden chariot (see pic from our last blog) had now
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