San"kranthi" at Bhanupuri

Sometimes..I celebrated sankranthi in suryapet also.I grew up with my mamaiah in my ammamma's house here. Besides gobbemmalu,muggulu......Sankranthi at suryapet is really an exhilarating experience for me. Very lovely... because here lies my soul... I feel immensely happy. Unlike in my naanamma's village where I pass the day counting seconds..here I live the life of king. I do whatever I wish to. i wake up early in the morning ... then Radha and I with tooth brushes sit at the back door and talk and talk...on countless things. With brushes in the mouth we go to the ground (govt jr college ,only a wall separates our house and college ) at such early hour checking whether any one is playing cricket. We eat gangaregi pandlu with lot of interest. We just love them. We even take the information about the location of such trees ..... go there and have them stomachfull. So is the case with sithaphalapandlu.

After finishing bath and having breakfast....we go to ravi and nagu house. They live next door. They are the masters in kite flying. Actually the kite episode in sankranthi is a long process in which we also take part. Ravi prepares his own maanza(thread that tied to kite).For that we a gang of 5 to 6 embark on a great adventurous journey. First ,we go to college ground and search for any broken soda(goli soda) bottles. And then for Aloevera plant leaves(kalamandha) for smoothness. Then go to shop and buy some colours, bendakkayalu. A soft pulpy mass is formed mashing all these things ..A good quality thread is taken , hold that mass and run it all over the thread. Thats how a sharp cutting colourful manza is made.Then the next bing things are kite and charka. They are bought from shops at maseed(masjid) which is nearer to our gorgeous school.

Though there are many who are our opponents, the main opponent to us in having " war in skies" is our Karunakar. Karnakar flies his kite from the top of his house and we from ours. A serious war which also includes lots of ego is witnessed in sky. Very energetic..very funny and also very serious. Radha,Dv and I are very poor in kite flying.We hardly know how to fly them.But we used to stay with Ravi and enjoy the whole episode.

Without cricket the day is incomplete. Matches , matches...and matches... wonderful cricket we used to play.