My driver explained that "this is the one day when the people who work in factory take time to clean".
Judging from some of the factories and workshops I have seen that sounds about right, maybe a bit optimistic.  At the office today most of the women were wearing nice saris and there were decorations up. Too busy to ask why.

I will see if I can get a picture of an autorickshaw with a couple of huge banana branches strapped on the front.

Since most of my weapons are in storage in Arizona I will spend the afternoon defragging my hard drive.

The better explanation is from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasara).

Ayudha puja: This day is to worship weapons. People in the modern days worship automobiles, their machines on this day.'Weapons' have been replaced with 'tools of the trade'. So people worship carpentry tools, computers, vehicles, cooking utensils etc etc



Shawn