As an adult, have you ever accompanied any deity for visarjan? Danced on the streets and threw gulal at each other till you looked like a baboon? It's unlikely you did it as a child either.

Nah, it's too in your face for people like us. Too many people, too much controlled chaos, too much to handle.

But yes, we'll watch it on TV, run to the balcony (if it happens to look on to a visrajan route), but never participate.

It's them -- all those people out on the streets -- who really bring in all that wonderful colour to festivals. had they opted to sit it out at home like us, we'd never know when these festivals came and when they passed us by.

and yet, despite all this gyan, i know i'll never ever hit the streets for a visarjan.

Would u?