Hello Readers,Hello Lovely People,
It's your homeboy 'Carnival Chacha' aka Nikhil here.
If we combine all the religions in our country, I am sure we must be celebrating close to 50 festivals in an year. Half of them are nothing more than national holidays for us, isn't it? No matter what the truth is, we still continue to shield ourselves with terms like, 'Culture' and 'Festivals'.
Do you really think we still have the right to brag about them?
If You think so,' request you to kindly read my Blog, 'Hypocritically Yours' first.
However, writing this Blog to share my thoughts on our Festivals. Question here is, have we really maintained the Serenity of our Festivals. Do we really get the divine feeling? I personally don't.
Booking an auditorium, charging hefty entry fees and making Falguni Pathak earn.
Do you think it must be pleasing Goddess Durga? Who even thinks about the Goddess anyways.
Dancing on the tunes of Jhingaat and DJ Wale Babu, isn't why Lokmanya tilak started Ganesh Festival. Lord Krishna never preached to get slaughtered on the occasion of Dahi Handi. How about the business of, higher the human pyarmid, higher the prize money. Drink on the Gatari evening as you will have to suddenly become spiritual and sophisticated in the month of Shravana.
On a lighter note, I really doubt how many wives really want same husband even on Karva-Chauth.
These are merely some examples and the problem is faced in each and every religion.
Green Diwali, Waterless Holi are welcome initiatives. Shouldn't we also talk about bloodless Eid too. At the time of Paryushana, rather than staying hungry, how about feeding the hungry.
Don't you think it's time we fine-tune our festivals a bit as per the need of the hour.
Let us make Festive season as the season of Giving. Give Kaju Katli to the garbage collector and he will finally have something good to hold. Donate blood on all our prime festivals. Visit an old-age home and assure them, not all sons/daughters are ungrateful. Visit an orphanage or special child homes and let them know that they are actually special.
Many things can be done and many stupid things can be avoided to make our festivals something really to be proud of.
Lastly, wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
Keep the Pharal ready, I am coming.
It's your homeboy 'Carnival Chacha' aka Nikhil here.
If we combine all the religions in our country, I am sure we must be celebrating close to 50 festivals in an year. Half of them are nothing more than national holidays for us, isn't it? No matter what the truth is, we still continue to shield ourselves with terms like, 'Culture' and 'Festivals'.
Do you really think we still have the right to brag about them?
If You think so,' request you to kindly read my Blog, 'Hypocritically Yours' first.
However, writing this Blog to share my thoughts on our Festivals. Question here is, have we really maintained the Serenity of our Festivals. Do we really get the divine feeling? I personally don't.
Booking an auditorium, charging hefty entry fees and making Falguni Pathak earn.
Do you think it must be pleasing Goddess Durga? Who even thinks about the Goddess anyways.
Dancing on the tunes of Jhingaat and DJ Wale Babu, isn't why Lokmanya tilak started Ganesh Festival. Lord Krishna never preached to get slaughtered on the occasion of Dahi Handi. How about the business of, higher the human pyarmid, higher the prize money. Drink on the Gatari evening as you will have to suddenly become spiritual and sophisticated in the month of Shravana.
On a lighter note, I really doubt how many wives really want same husband even on Karva-Chauth.
These are merely some examples and the problem is faced in each and every religion.
Green Diwali, Waterless Holi are welcome initiatives. Shouldn't we also talk about bloodless Eid too. At the time of Paryushana, rather than staying hungry, how about feeding the hungry.
Don't you think it's time we fine-tune our festivals a bit as per the need of the hour.
Many things can be done and many stupid things can be avoided to make our festivals something really to be proud of.
Lastly, wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
Keep the Pharal ready, I am coming.
Perfect.good to see that people are changing their views towards these cultures. This message should be shared spread all across the country.
ReplyDeleteGreat thought! It is very difficult to change thinking of society where most of people still believe that throwing puja ka saman or flowers into mumbra creek,just to have gods blessings:(! But we can always step up and try to stop these kind of acts, and try to spread actual education in so called educated society
ReplyDeleteLastly Happy Diwali
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