To secure successful rice harvest for our trust, the Nareshwadi horticulturalists were carrying a coconut, rice, some spices and incense sticks to perform a prayer, so called pooja, when they met us riding back to Mumbai on July 4. We have decided to stop at the paddy field and I have received the honor to undertake the pooja, while the others were clapping their hands and cheering on.As I was trying to light the incense sticks covered by several big umbrellas, my burnt hand did not help. When I then washed a stone and started to pound on it with the coconut, which I covered with other ingredients, the stone broke twice before the coconut finally broke. The audience was astonished – not only the stone broke twice, but the coconut broke apart sharply from east to west – what a promising sign!
Faint with happiness, we have started to take photos and suddenly… my brand new camera fell into the paddy field. Oh no!!! Having been in the mud for a few seconds, nothing helped to save her. Well, “what to do?” as an Indian would say. After checking all possibilities and some tough negotiations, I have decided to go for exchange at an official Canon shop near VT station and got the very same Canon Powershot A640 for 9.300,- Rs instead of 16.000,- Rs. This time with a bag though!So please enjoy these photos, they are truly precious! And even if the manual does not state it, never drop your camera into the paddy field, the official guarantee does not apply on this circumstance. J
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