from last year’s Hanuman Jayanti

Mrinaal's Random Ramblings

Bajrang Bali is one of my childhood heroes, and I don’t say this in light or banal sense of the phrase; I remember missing a few trains and buses to not miss an episode of Jai Hanuman (Sony TV, most likely; made by Sanjay Khan, and Hanuman/Shiva played by actor Raj Premi)

I even robbed steel ladel from the kitchen and clutched it as a Gada while watching Jai Hanuman (‘real’ Gada-s bought from Dashahara fair wouldn’t last long, even though my father, and both grandfathers, unerringly kept buying them every year for me, making sure I had my fill of them and bow-arrow, year after year, for fifteen years, I think).

Anyway, the *most* remarkable thing is the extent of his Seva and Sharanagati to his Ishta- Sri Rama- so much that even today, one hears less Hanuman Bhajan-s and ‘Jai Hanuman’, and more ‘Jai Sri Ram’; people know…

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