Originally posted by: blue-ice.1
yaar...it makes me sad that people can now not even celebrate their festivals without being guilt tripped about it....saal mein ek baar festivals aate hain.....I remember as a child I used to wait for these festivals.....going to get colors or patakas or rakhi with Papa-mummy was so much fun and then to celebrate the actual festival.....now the people's wokeness and political correctness is slowly spoiling the essence of the festivals....while I agree that there should be little restraint...but...
Holi per paani mat waste karo...
Diwali per pathake mat jalao..
Rakshabandhan mein girls kyon rakhi bandhegi..Bhai kyon nahi..
karwachauth mein...tumhara husband kyon nahi vrat rakhega...tumhare lie...
Every thing is going away slowly....in the next 50 years these festivals will change...their essence will change.....being in USA....I pine to celebrate these festivals the way we did as kids.....so much fun...no one made us feel guilty because we dared to celebrate our festivals in traditional wayđ€
Maybe you still have the feeling because you stay in the US. The celebrations here in India in many places are no longer about 'celebration' but as a means of showing the status and of competition. You should just see the sky in most Indian cities the day after Diwali (since these days crackers are burst till 4 am in the morning). You can't smell anything except for Barood because different rich apartments compete on who can burst the fanciest crackers and till how long.
Ganesh Chaturthi is one of my all time favorite festivals. I remember this 'paet mein gudgudi' wali feeling when there used to be Ganesh sthapna in the nearby pandal even for the last few years but now my biggest concern whenever chaturthi approaches is say tata bye bye to sleep for the next 11 days because it has become a completion among mandals on who can blare bollywood item songs more loudly and till late night from speakers. There's no spirit of celebrating Ganesha any longer in cities, it's only zing zing zingaat and dhol tasha. I remember once spending chaturthi in a little village near Pune and can't forget how much I enjoyed spending Ganpati there. So pure, so full of devotion and beautiful folk/traditional music.â„ïž
The thing with festivals in India is that with growing population, people need to understand that they also need to celebrate festivals within a certain limit ( and this is about celebration and fun of human beings, no one puts any restrictions on how a god should be worshipped in festivals). But we don't know how to celebrate things under control. Esp a festival like Diwali which I've literally started hating.
Ofcourse this is just an observation in cities, I don't really know how good/bad it is in Tier 2 cities and towns apart from villages.
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