Remarriage !!

For reasons which remain very unclear to me, Priya's family has been very keen that we go to Kalahasti near Tirupati and redo the tying of the knots there. This finally happened on 26th August (a couple of days before our anniversary). Her parents were also there. Overall quite an uneventful experience. The diety is quite interesting -- it is a shivalinga but a very svelte tall thin version. Both at Kalahasti and Tirupati the chamber where the diety is kept has a certain mystical feel to it. There is a background chant and the chamber is deeply recessed with lighting and I do get affected by the atmosphere which is quite rare for me. At Kalahasti we were there at the time of the aarathi cermony which is a small spectacle with lots of loud musical instruments including a chap bashing together two brass plates creating a tremondous din, and overall again creating a certain atmosphere.
There was an interesting side-episode where the grand pujari, the senior person in the hierarchy, showed some interest in our case dismissing any possibility of 'dosha' (which is why we had gone there), and quite accurately telling Priya's parents that if we didn't have children it was because we didn't want them.

Photos are at the hotel where we stayed, cameras were not allowed inside the temple.

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