I love celebrations in India and like them grand. Be it the Durga Puja or the Navratri or the mega weddings. I just love opulence.
Opulence makes me feel good about the time. It makes me feel that the air around is positive hence people are spending without a worry.
It also has a very deeper meaning for me. It is percolation of wealth, or the process of job creation and employment that the opulence brings with it.
This is the time when the poor gets a chance to sell his hand made work without competing with the machine produced. And earn to get his daughter married. Or buy new clothes for the village panchayat darbar. Also it is the time when the generations old forgotten traditions and crafts are given a chance to survive and compete for attention.
The more the opulence, the better it is for the economy. So, three cheers to celebrations!!!
hi,
tilak
A good thought to this whole celebration opulance. But i kind of disagree to it for the simple reason that where people in the city do not get exectricity to suffice their means we are spending so much money on excessively lighting up places.
When 75% of the population in the city still sleeps hungry we spend lakhs and crores on feeding afflunt people with versatile menus which still at the end of the one day affair is dumped into the garbage bins.
When the economy of the country and situations are in this serious threat we spend corores on money on superstitiously breaking pots at heights putting all our faith in status still adding cost to see them in their exclusive covers.
where is the sense. hope you appreciate this comment.
I still like your writing