When I started this blog almost a year ago, I thought of making it a technical one with some high-funda copy-paste stuff. But after one year and only one post (!!), I decided "nah!!"; forget it. I deleted my sole stupid technical post and decided to better use this to scribble something on an exceedingly boring office day like this one where I am wondering about which page to browse and how to kill my time.
Getting painstakingly bored enough, I decided to have a chit-o-chat with somebody. Being a festival day today in India, most of my office buddies are on vacation and the place is unnaturally calm and empty today. I walked over to one of my Bengali* colleagues in next aisle and started a discussion. If it's festival, naturally the topic would be culture, celebration and tradition. And if you are an Indian, you can spend a whole day discussing about all the colorful festivals and all those amazing cultural traits seen across India. Isn't it amazing how people possessing completely different cultural values, traditions, attire and speaking completely different language can co-exist as a single nation? Everytime, I think of of it, I get spellbound, amazed and animated. The festival we are celebrating today (generally known as Sankranti) is celebrated almost across the whole country, but with completely different manners and rituals. And every Indian community has a unique name for the same festival too !!! If I can continue writing, in one of my future posts, I would definitely like to write how this is celebrated in our state or community. Controversy apart, but I would never in support of saying that my country is great and his is not OR my culture is superior than theirs. May be these are all excuses of not improving what we have today or not adopting an obviously better trend from others. But every culture has something unique, something lively, something astounding in it. And if you have a number of such different cultures and billions of people belonging to those cultures living in one single country, imagine the "joie de vivre" of India. Imagine "colors of India" !!!
*Note: Bengali is one of the many languages spoken in India.
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I would say, its a great piece of post. I liked your first post. Hope to read a lot from your side.
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