Up in Smoke

Sitting in the cleanness of my room with colourful stars falling all around me in the sky and clouds of black smoke trying to screen them. We celebrated DeepavaLi yesterday and I was celebrating also the fact that there was hardly any noise around. But the security guard had warned me that it would be today and he was right. It has been incessant noise right from the morning and I kept my call with  Japanese partners mostly on mute, lest they think we too had dangerous neighbours.

Coming to think of it, this is the first DeepavaLi with only four of us at home. We either had parents or a resident-maid with us otherwise. I miss my parents but yeah, it's been a happy DeepavaLi nevertheless.