The voyeur backstage.

One of the many nostalgic images for many a men I'm sure. The onlooker is watching the finishing touches for a 'Theyyam' backstage.

The charm about most of the temple festivals in Kerala is that it follows rigth after your summer exams. Festivals are a rewarding reason to wrap up your textbooks for two months. The Drum beats, the freedom and enigma of late nights, the caparisoned elephants, the folklore, the fare, the fireworks...the works! And then you grow up and move away to cities. And lead rest of your life in longing...to come back.

The descend of these performers and their ritualistic ways of putting on costumes and make up is equally enticing and theatrical as the performance itself.

I wish I had waited till the performer turned towards me. But by then the onlooker would have left for the rest of 'the enigma' in waiting!

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