Shivji's Chamatkar on the Maha Shivratri !
The day the entire Secunderabad and surrounding villages descended on 1 EME Centre! Don’t get me wrong! It was not a protest against closure of roads in the Army area or any other issue instigated by petty politicians! 9/11 and 26/11 attacks were decades away. The year was 1988 and civil military relations and liaison were at their best. The deluge of people descending on 1 EME Centre was due to devotional frenzy! Vasuki would periodically raise her head and open her hoodabove Mahadev and the gathered and milling crowd would go on an ecstatic frenzy shouting “ Har Har Mahadev Har Har Mahadev “. The conch would be blown, drums and duroo and cymbals would create a din! Vasuki would retract her head and wrap around the Shivji and the crowd would calm down! Let me explain! The Radha Krishna temple is one of the institutions of the Corps of EME and its functioning and organization are elaborately covered in one of the DGMEME’s Cor...