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Light offered to every part of the murti.
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Patterns that take all night.
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And why that is fine too.
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The lamp in the middle of the circle.
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Because it is a wedding.
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A year of you.
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Call and answer.
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A house for Bhagwan.
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A minute of stillness before the day begins.
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A very Indian kind of caring.
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Bringing the light to your eyes.
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Leaves, paste, cone, art.
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Round and golden, like a good day.
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Sticks, rhythm and Krishna.
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Vidaai: happy and sad together.
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A mark, not a stain.
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Faces we love, on the wall.
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Meet the pujari.
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Rice, milk and patience.
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Yes.
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A village, a city, a ship, a plane.
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The engagement.
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She speaks three other languages.
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A plant that gets a lamp of its own.
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Bathing, dressing and feeding the murti.
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Til for Sankranti, gujiya for Holi, modak for Ganesha.
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A map with two hearts on it.
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Yellow hands, yellow faces.
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Forty lines that make you brave.
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Sunday mornings with Nani.
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One home, many rooms.
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Jaggery meets chilli.
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Airports, aunties, mangoes.
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A promise on the wrist.
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The night everyone dances.
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The prayer that closes the day.
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The first rain.
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Eighteen hours of love.
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A form we can see, for someone we cannot.
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The gentlest plate in the house.
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Both at once.
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Four pillars and a roof.
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Why Do We Greet the Sun?Surya namaskar.
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A family across the map.
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Because Dadi told them.
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Chandra, and the day named after him.
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Because part of you does.
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