Rons Bantwal

Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Sep 28: “With the arrival of Dasara, memories of childhood celebrations in Mangaluru come flooding back. The excitement of waiting for the different disguises and performances—milk disguise, bread disguise, paper disguise, thief disguise, Koraga disguise, Siddhi disguise, tiger dance, bear dance, Radha-Krishna disguise. I still remember rushing to see the tiger dance troupe as soon as the band played, only to fall and injure my thigh on a stone, leaving behind a scar,” reminisced senior writer Shyamala Madhav of Mumbai.

She recalled dressing up as a Koraga during her school’s Dasara celebrations, which even won her a prize. “My mother would mix soot with water and smear it all over my body. Mango leaves were tied around my waist, a

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