When the society president told me with pride that they have purchased good quality sound systems, I didn't think it would be so important to them. Yes, it is Garba time, and I witnessed it for the first time. After the melodious aarti and the yummy prashad, it was time to start dancing. The music was started and people started slowly swaying to the music. Interestingly, the president, was the first one to start dancing. Soon he was joined by the other men, and very soon the circle grew with ladies, young girls and kids chipping in.
It is amazing to see how different people dance in different styles and yet not go out of the rhythm! All the uncles were taking smaller steps and making bigger body movements. The ladies, all decked up and pretty danced like pros, since they have probably been doing it perfectly for ages. And then there was this group of three women who were improvising the repetitive step in every circle. And then there were the younger girls, who were very competitively decked up by their moms, and trained in not making mistakes in the step, and one could feel the caution and the conscious efforts they were making. Toddlers and kiddos were pushed inside the circle and they were making their own efforts to dance and enjoying the sight of their mamas and papas dancing away to glory.
What a wonderful and colourful sight!
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