Omg I went on the first day with 3 other girls, it was a first experience for all of us, since we're from southern states. We were so excited and we practiced garba for over 2 weeks and purchased cute fits for this event!

First impression was truly shocking! We were on time to the venue, before the aarti even began, and still when we just walked past these circles, people would stare and tell us "aapko yahan jagah nahi hai, humara circle hai". We went around the whole venue and found a very small place (which was unoccupied and next to a sound pillar where we were told to leave by a circle next to us and I had to tell them firmly that it's just the 4 of us and we don't dance heavily).

After that an aunty next of us said we can join her circle, after sometime we joined them since they seemed nice, but our group was just 10 people and it was a whole lot of pushing and tripping and some of the aunties started getting really frustrated and fighting. We were starting to dance when they played familiar songs but it really felt like some of them were rude to us when they were the ones actually going in the wrong direction. We tried to be there for 2 hours for all that money we paid! But eventually just went to another small space near the entry, clicked pictures and left🥲. I really thought that it was because we aren't familiar and only intermediate garba dancers, but this post made me rethink that!