Happy Dusshera and शुभ विजयादशमी
2020, Durga Devi comes galloping on a Saturday and leaves striding on a buffalo after 9 days on a Sunday. Transport plays a significant role in daily lives of Devas and Devis to travel from one sphere to the other. And the unique thing about transportation is that its the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain. Hindu scriptures have a very interesting way of tagging the 7 days of a week to their respective transportation mode. Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty. Therefore Devas and Devis have individualized vehicles (vahans) for each day. Something similar to Earth people riding on their individual vehicles with odd and even number plates. This year Navratri started on 17 th October, which was a Saturday, hence the vehicle or vahan was a horse. The vahan- horse by character is a fast animal to move on and particularly as the year began with the Pandemic in full swing, even Durga Devi chose to come mounting a horse, if n