ah haa........got my blogs safely from the clutches of blogger.com.......guess wat .....ma blog was kidnapped by the "blogger" .......reported as spam.......verified for 3 days and now proven that i am innocent :)
nyways gettin back to christmas....The festival that belongs to all of us.......Centuries may have gone ,and times may have changed but the christmas spirit thrives....There may be no snow in mumbai for santas sleigh or chimneys for him to slip down ,but ppl of all religions still hang up their stockings and they get filled.....
There has been a christmassy feel everywhere...
Christmas does not belong to christians anymore...from being a religious festival ,it has become one celebrated with gutso ,by everyone ,every religion..Of course, the festivities are less about religion fervour and more about havin a goodtime...
Red is the color of the season....nd if u wanna know why, visit any mall or the traffic signals.....therez no mall where u dont find a 'santa' or a traffic signal where the christmas caps are not sold.......Even the mannequins in leading stores have donned the red outfit......
So why has christmas become universal while other festival has not taken off the same way???? ppl are invited to comment on this.......but way i feel about this is firstly ,what everyone celebrates is christmas in its most commercial form rather than in religious sense.......like many of us(including non-christians) like gettin a cake with lip smacking toppings on it.....secondly ,christmas helps everyone connect to the global community....most of all christmas gives the feeling of being more inclusive than many other festivals.....
its a nice feeling that this kind of secular idea is taking root everywhere...may be something is right with this world after all......Merry christmas!!!!
3 comments:
hey another nice post - you definitely have got the art of musing on the right topics .... Firstly, a small spelling mistake (or mebbe a typo) - its "gusto" and not "gutso"
Okay, now that done, lemme consider the subject matter - I think Christmas is indeed a great festival and yea its true that its becoming extremely popular these days amongst the general crowd.
I also agree that its the commercial aspect of Christmas (as you rightly point out - the prospect of a delicious cake, etc) that makes it such a rage among Indians today. But the same can be said of Diwali too. I know of Muslims celebrating Diwali quite enthusiastically. And again, in case of Diwali or Ganesh Chaturthi, its mostly the prospect of new clothes, sweets or plainly the opportunity to meet up with old friends, etc that makes these festivals popular.
So its not just Christmas that has ceased to be a traditional, quite celebration of the birth of Christ and now turned into a loud, commercially celebrated affair with mainstream appeal - the same holds true for a host of other festivals.
The commercialization of festivals is simply unavoidable in a prosperous, bustling, consumerist economy as ours and perhaps, it is in this form that these festivals continue to hold the attention of the masses.
Merry Christmas to you too.
@rajiv....thanks for thew spellin mistake.....pardon me for the grave mistake......:D....nyways back to the post.......thts rite....same thing can be said bout diwali too......but thts only from an indian point of view......written this wit a global picture in mind....if u go to any gulf country ......i'm sure u 'll find santas and huge christmas trees in malls etc ...nyways thanks for it..really lov wen i get a comments tht makes me think......:)
Hey good one bro....it really is bringin ppl of our ever so huge society....yes december does feel good....well written ...keep writin bro!
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