In the Indian culture, there was a time when there used to be a festival every day of the year – 365 festivals in a year – because a festival is a tool to bring life to a state of exuberance and enthusiasm. That was the significance and importance of festivals. The whole culture was in a state of celebration. If today was ploughing day, it was a kind of celebration. Tomorrow was planting day, another kind of celebration. Day after tomorrow was weeding, that was a celebration. Harvesting, of course, is still a celebration. But in the last 400 or 500 years, poverty has come to our country, and we have not been able to celebrate every day. People are satisfied if they just get some simple food to eat. So all the festivals fell away and only 30 or 40 festivals remain. We are not even able to celebrate those now because we have to go to the office or do something else daily. So people usually celebrate only around 8 or 10 festivals annually. then there arises this question that is life just for celebration i think we should minimize on celebrations and should encourage a bit of charity . so instead spending grands for onam celebs i think we the english dept. should give away a lunch to those who dosent have that .......
today i came across an incident which made me post this ... walking down the streets of kolenchery i noticed a man modestly dressed rich i suppose walking up the street with a child there was a beggar on the side of the street the child had a packet of snacks with him he was munching through the snack, i noticed an unusuall thing the beggar was not asking for money but was asking for food . naturally he asked the same to the kid the kid maybe due to his innoscense was trying to give away the packet but the father scolded him and draged him away ... i saw the gleam of light dissapearing in beggars eyes and so did the childs .
In the Indian culture, there was a time when there used to be a festival every day of the year – 365 festivals in a year – because a festival is a tool to bring life to a state of exuberance and enthusiasm. That was the significance and importance of festivals. The whole culture was in a state of celebration. If today was ploughing day, it was a kind of celebration. Tomorrow was planting day, another kind of celebration. Day after tomorrow was weeding, that was a celebration. Harvesting, of course, is still a celebration. But in the last 400 or 500 years, poverty has come to our country, and we have not been able to celebrate every day. People are satisfied if they just get some simple food to eat. So all the festivals fell away and only 30 or 40 festivals remain. We are not even able to celebrate those now because we have to go to the office or do something else daily. So people usually celebrate only around 8 or 10 festivals annually.
ReplyDeletethen there arises this question that is life just for celebration i think we should minimize on celebrations and should encourage a bit of charity . so instead spending grands for onam celebs i think we the english dept. should give away a lunch to those who dosent have that .......
today i came across an incident which made me post this ... walking down the streets of kolenchery i noticed a man modestly dressed rich i suppose walking up the street with a child there was a beggar on the side of the street the child had a packet of snacks with him he was munching through the snack, i noticed an unusuall thing the beggar was not asking for money but was asking for food . naturally he asked the same to the kid the kid maybe due to his innoscense was trying to give away the packet but the father scolded him and draged him away ... i saw the gleam of light dissapearing in beggars eyes and so did the childs .
nb;dont mind errors was a quick post
ReplyDeleteindeed a good suggestion. we will think over it.
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