Divali was celebrated last week in Mauritius. Here are a few photos I took with my camera & the N8.
It all starts of course with the preparation of the sweets… Mixing the ingredients for barfi & boiling of the dholl for thekwa (which eventually wasn’t made due to a lack of time).
Gato zanberique (moong dal).
& of course, gato batate. (Here's the recipe) :)
Thekwa batate.
Wheat ladoo.
Gulab jamun.
Divali wouldn’t be complete without the lighting…
Photos I took 2 days before Divali.
I tried to capture light bokehs using the N8…
Fireworks!
Played with the fireworks mode on my L20, taking advantage of the long exposure time… 4s!
So that’s it. Didn’t have time to take photos of lamps because I was too busy with the electric lighting. & both the L20 & N8 take night photos with extremely high noise.
7 comments
Wow! great pictures dude..especially the houses with light works and the bokeh...indeed great preparation! ;) Also, "gato batate" or "gato patate"? The CM6 thing with the fireworks is really creative! Keep it up!
Some nice bokehs out there :-)
Thanks both of you.
@nirvan
Patate commonly refers to pomme de terre in French while patate douce is the sweet potato.
Batate is probably the Mauritianised version of Latin batata (meaning sweet potato).
I think the origins of the Mauritian batate is a cross between Hindi batata (potato) & French patate. :)
I've always heard “gato patat” and never “gato batat”. It's totally new to me that some people in Mauritius pronounce it with a b- sound. (Patate comes from Spanish batata, which was itself borrowed from Arawak, the sweet potato being a species indigenous to the American continent.)
@Siganus Sutor
Well, I've always heard it more frequently with a b-sound.
& a quick Google search reveals more b- than p-...
I suppose the two sounds (both bilabial consonants) are rather similar and the difference can easily go unoticed. I had never realised that people used the b- sound too. I'll focus more on the lips from now.
And do you have some who say “gato bima” as well? :-)
@Siganus Sutor
Haha! Never heard of 'gato bima!' :P
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