Sundays here are different from the ones back home. In India sundays are associated with the last minute rush of ending the weekend with a bang! In kolkata, this means that there will be no vacant seat at the south city food court, multiplex ticket prices are insanely expensive and most good restaurants have a sizeable queue. Especially during the festive season which starts a good month or two before the actual featival!
In Liverpool, Sundays are quite depressing. The roads are empty, yhe shops close much earlier and most eating joints are either closed or are offering an all day fixed rate prices (for buffets), which are almost equal to the weekend rates! This reminds you more strongly that the wicked me monday is just around the corner! But there is one thing I personally like about Sundays-the distant chiming of church bells...
Be it my 'convent' education or just a personal preference...I uave somehow found a greater feeling of devotion and peace at churches than in mandirs. Thus, when the church bells ring, it fills me a strange kind of hope. I imagine the stain glass windows letting in rainbow rays of light on the rows of benches. I imagine the solitude of the empty church where you can hear your own footsteps..your own heartbeats. I imagine jesus' half shut eyes, his knowing smile and his hand raised in blessing.
Does that mean I believe in Christianity more than Hinduism...of course not...but I love churches more than mandirs..does that make sense?
