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Ganesh Chaturthy 2006 @ our home: Today we celeberated Ganesh Chaturthy. Today God Ganesh visits every worshipper's house in the form of Murti (made of clay...sometimes painted too). You can see that the Murti is decorated with his favourite "White Erukku", Arugampul" (Grass), and flowers. This murti is worshipped for 2-10 days and immersed in a nearby Tank, River or Sea! We make Modagam (Kozhukkattai in Tamil) which is his favourite food! (A modak is a dumpling made from rice flour with a stuffing of coconut, jaggery and some other condiments & Steam Cooked) Other food items were: Ellu Urundai, Sundal, Paruppu Vadai, Athirasam! Writing this blog after overwhelming lunch with all the above mentioned South-Indian specials!!! OTHER PLOGS (Photo Logs!) Yediyur Lake - getting ready for a month-long idol immersion from today! This view is from my Balcony...

A view from my Dashboard… {Own driving: Bangalore – Hosur – Krishnagiri – Dharmapuri – Salem – Namakkal – Musiri – Kulithalai – Trichy} [ Hired Vehicle: Trichy – Madurai – Krishnapuram – Kutralam] 5:40 am: Started from Jayanagar, Bangalore (after visiting Ganesha temple @ RV Road) NH-7 feels like hot-knife-on-butter! Except for a small stretch of bad road-yet to be done to NH levels - between Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri. Zooming past Electronic city, Hosur, Krishnagiri we reached Dharmapuri ( 133 Kms ) at 8:15 am . Filled the petrol-tank (few Rupees cheaper than Bangalore...dude) and decided to fill our stomach with delicious Idly, Dosa, Vada and stopped at my favourite spot "Sri Saravana Bhavan Hotel" near main junction, Dharmapuri. 9:05 am: Drove via Salem ( 196 kms - 10:20 am ) reached Namakkal ( 246 kms ) at 11:20 am Visited the temples of Hanuman and Narasimha swamy... ( The cave sculptures were engraved by GUNSILA Adhiyan Kula, King during 7th Century) More... 12:20