00:00Adam, how was this Pangala opening? Is it your first time experience?
00:05The experience is very good, very positive.
00:09And once we are putting fire to make the pious,
00:15that ritual, I think it was filtering our mind and soul.
00:21So water was coming from our eyes and it was a struggle we were doing.
00:27But I found the entire scenario, I found it's a kind of a women empowerment.
00:33Everywhere the women, every caste, creed, religion, all are together.
00:41So it is a secular unity. It is a women empowerment.
00:44And also it is a filtering of our mind and soul at the same time.
00:49It is bringing more energy to us.
00:52So we all prayed, we all here, we even don't know each other.
00:58But we all were here doing the same kind of rituals.
01:01It's a very nice thing.
01:02I think today in the North India they are celebrating Holi.
01:07It is a festival of colors.
01:10And here we are celebrating the secular unity.
01:14So I think it's a great experience for me.
01:17You have the charge of NERMA, the ACC in charge.
01:22And the election is coming.
01:23Do you have any special means in this while offering this power?
01:31Yes, of course.
01:33I do feel that I prayed also.
01:37I will never hide because when I am praying to goddess, then obviously I should not hide.
01:44I am in charge of Kerala.
01:47So definitely I will pray for Kerala, people of Kerala.
01:52And I have in last two years, I have this experience that people of Kerala want change.
02:00Change in their governance, change, they want a very positive vision.
02:07That what we can give, that what we are expecting, that what people of Kerala think that they should
02:15get their children, they should get some job, that unemployment issue should be, it is not
02:23easy, but they want unity.
02:25They want their family to grow together.
02:27They don't want that their children should go to other states or other countries for a job.
02:33So that is the main problem here.
02:36Why the youth is getting frustrated?
02:39Drug is coming.
02:40Drug is just flooding here.
02:43That is the main issue, this frustration.
02:45So I think to create job, to bring the earlier glory of Kerala, a new Kerala, a new era should
02:56begin and that should, that only UDF can bring.
03:00So I pray that UDF should come back.
03:03What people is thinking?
03:04I am not saying that political, it is a political wish or will.
03:08It is the need of the people of Kerala.
03:10So what they are wishing, I wish the same.
03:13What is your offering here?
03:15Payasam.
03:17So do you have a former experience with payasam or you are ahead of that?
03:22I am a very good cook.
03:24I cook everything, all cuisine I cook.
03:27So this is a special, I eat also every cuisine, I cook also every cuisine.
03:34So it is not a problem.
03:36Payasam I eat and I know how to cook.
03:38I have been here for the last couple of years.
03:41So what was your good food item from Kerala?
03:45Good?
03:46Sorry?
03:46Good item from Kerala, Kerala dish.
03:50Upperman's stew.
03:52That is my favorite, upperman's stew.
03:54And then obviously the egg curry, I like the way they make.
04:00Also, which is something which is not so important, not very popular.
04:09But I like the uni-upper, best, in from Kochi.
04:15But during the offering Pongala, at the first time, when fire and smoke will trouble you,
04:23so then what was your experience then?
04:25Look, we have Durga Puja at our house.
04:29We used to have.
04:30So this kind of fumes and flames and smoke.
04:35During Puja, every Puja it happens.
04:37In every temple or even we are doing at home also.
04:41So in Bengal, five days Durga Puja, we experience this.
04:46Not a way this Pongala is, but this kind of fire, smoke, that we experience.
04:54So that is nothing but putting myself and doing this.
04:59It's a very new experience.
05:00That is what I said at the beginning.
05:01It filtered my soul and mind.
05:04And I feel very energetic now, very positive now.
05:08So you have come late, even then I am talking.
05:10So you can understand how positive I am.
05:12Is it your first experience?
05:15No?
05:16Pongala.
05:16Yes.
05:17First time.
05:18Last year I was not here on the Pongala day, so I couldn't come because we had some meeting.
05:24This time I said that I will be here.
05:27So a special thanks for Suresh for getting such an arrangement for you.
05:34No, otherwise I should have done anywhere.
05:36I am not a person.
05:37You know that I travel everywhere.
05:40Here, because Deepti Mary was with me and she used to come every year here only.
05:46So we came together.
05:47I am not a person.
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