FESTIVE ANTICIPATION

Six Pre-Festive Pictures

My morning today

Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Tourist in My Own Country
4 min readOct 4, 2024

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All photos by the author

Me at the gym. I haven’t even gotten my shoes on yet, and am already posing for a picture! Author’s photo.

I got to the gym this morning, and took a picture to show my daughter Gayatri, 21, how well her Coding Blocks T-shirt fit me. She won it in a contest and the Large was the smallest size. Gayatri would drown in it, so I adopted it as mine.

This temporary structure to house the Goddess’ images is called a pandal.

My city is preparing for the Durga Puja later this week. Stalls and pandals are going up, and this one has ceiling fans and decorative lights!

Some are simpler while some better financed ones like this 2017 Kolkata pandal resemble the White House.

Author’s photo.

Working hard on barriers though Durga Puja is for all classes of people

Further down the road, masons work double-quick to get a gate ready in time for the festival. We don’t want the colony to look shabby and undone during Durga Puja — besides, the gate will prevent outsiders who haven’t paid for the…

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Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Tourist in My Own Country

I don’t just create smiles, I inspire them! Dentist, mom—Jamshedpur, India.