Nepal, Feb. 10 -- As little children we had no idea why Saraswati Puja was celebrated. We thought doing so would bring us good grades in the exams

The other day I was turning the pages of my album of old pictures and saw some black and white pictures of me along with some other children, wearing sari. That was a picture taken in Kolkata (Calcutta) many years ago. Looking at the picture I believe I was about seven years old. That was the fun part of Saraswati Puja in Kolkata. All children were allowed to wear a sari. They even sold saris for children and still do in Kolkata but we wore our mother's sari with much relish.

We all looked forward to Saraswati Puja at the time. There were various reasons for that. One of them being we got to ...