Sorry to be late, I was busy with the festivities of Diwali.
I have a feeling that this can be my worst post ever but still, here goes nothing....
India is a rich cultural diversity with a plethora of festivals for every citizen inhabiting.
The one which catches everyones eyes are Holi and Diwali (personal perspective). Let's make this a current event post and gossip about Diwali.
Being an idiot and not having much intellectual depth in my writing (AND living in a free country) I can say that Diwali is a festival heard in all the four corners of India but there is a high possibility that not every human in the populous has a homogeneous reason to celebrate it. For a businessman it may mean doubled sales. For a school student it may mean a holiday from the hectic and boring school and extreme fun the whole day (the definition of 'fun' is flexible is the teenage world). But one thing which every category knows but still does not show is what Diwali is all about. It marks the return date of Lord Rama from a fourteen year of exile. Everybody knows that right? Everyone must be tired of hearing that. The same boring yada-yada in the books is now in this not-so-great blog, it's getting too much right? But still, read on. Diwali is about triumph, about victory of 'good' over 'evil' where Ravan is neatly portrayed as evil and Ram as good and the victory was achieved when Rama killed Ravan and returned to his kingdom. Whoosh! Too much great values is a bunch of words stringed to together. So now here I am asking, what did we do? Couldn't we handle the greatness in one story and in one day? So we decided to complicate things more. (I am extremely sorry for inserting the dark side of diwali in this, but this is important) why did we start bursting obscene amounts of fireworks? Thereby increasing the air pollution and the garbage accumulation. As if there was a dearth of asthma patients. We enjoy bursting those loud as Zeus crackers but making it difficult for other animals. Is it actually so difficult to stick to the real rituals? Just light a candle or a 'diya', wear good clothes and invite people in the housevto brag about the furniture and have fun the rest of the day!
Look folks, I apologize to go all teacher-o-saurus on you, it just felt important. It's a free country, nobody can force you, they can only ask you to look back to decide to yourself what you really want Diwali to be like, and if it really is that way. The rest is up to us and the future will only broadcast what we decide.
By the way, belated happy diwali!!
P.S the foreigners should really visit India at this time, it really is very colourful, you will actually enjoy all the lights, it will be 24 hours of light in this day, as if the sun never set!
I have a feeling that this can be my worst post ever but still, here goes nothing....
India is a rich cultural diversity with a plethora of festivals for every citizen inhabiting.
The one which catches everyones eyes are Holi and Diwali (personal perspective). Let's make this a current event post and gossip about Diwali.
Being an idiot and not having much intellectual depth in my writing (AND living in a free country) I can say that Diwali is a festival heard in all the four corners of India but there is a high possibility that not every human in the populous has a homogeneous reason to celebrate it. For a businessman it may mean doubled sales. For a school student it may mean a holiday from the hectic and boring school and extreme fun the whole day (the definition of 'fun' is flexible is the teenage world). But one thing which every category knows but still does not show is what Diwali is all about. It marks the return date of Lord Rama from a fourteen year of exile. Everybody knows that right? Everyone must be tired of hearing that. The same boring yada-yada in the books is now in this not-so-great blog, it's getting too much right? But still, read on. Diwali is about triumph, about victory of 'good' over 'evil' where Ravan is neatly portrayed as evil and Ram as good and the victory was achieved when Rama killed Ravan and returned to his kingdom. Whoosh! Too much great values is a bunch of words stringed to together. So now here I am asking, what did we do? Couldn't we handle the greatness in one story and in one day? So we decided to complicate things more. (I am extremely sorry for inserting the dark side of diwali in this, but this is important) why did we start bursting obscene amounts of fireworks? Thereby increasing the air pollution and the garbage accumulation. As if there was a dearth of asthma patients. We enjoy bursting those loud as Zeus crackers but making it difficult for other animals. Is it actually so difficult to stick to the real rituals? Just light a candle or a 'diya', wear good clothes and invite people in the housevto brag about the furniture and have fun the rest of the day!
Look folks, I apologize to go all teacher-o-saurus on you, it just felt important. It's a free country, nobody can force you, they can only ask you to look back to decide to yourself what you really want Diwali to be like, and if it really is that way. The rest is up to us and the future will only broadcast what we decide.
By the way, belated happy diwali!!
P.S the foreigners should really visit India at this time, it really is very colourful, you will actually enjoy all the lights, it will be 24 hours of light in this day, as if the sun never set!
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