We Indians have lot of time to celebrate festivals one should take into account how many holidays we avail in a year plus the Sundays and Saturdays and of course the bharat bundhs state bundh and what more
The article is only partly true. Diwali is probably the costliest festival of the year though Pongal may be the most popular festival of TN. Diwali is the most important festival for parts of North India(not Bengal) and that too, for the trading class. Popularity of festivals may coincide with harvest season of the year and this varies from region to region.
South India is different. They do not celebrate much festivals. They simply don't know what to do on Ganapati, Navratri, Diwali. Author should visit other parts of country.
Re: Wrong set of people
by RSS on Nov 03, 2013 07:59 PM | Hide message
South India has Gokarna - Where Lord Ganesh came to stop Ravan from taking away Shiva's Atmalinga,
We also have many Shakti peetas to celebrate Navaratri, (Kollur Mookambika, Horanadu, Sringeri, Chamundi, Kanchi, Madurai to name a few)
As far as Diwali is concerned, Sivakasi is the leading producer of crackers in India.
South India is in no way inferior to celebrate festivals.
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Re: Wrong set of people
by ROFLatyou on Nov 04, 2013 03:04 PM
Where are the places to celebrate festival in north India .. Templess are already destroyrd and places muslas problem ..
Re: Re: Wrong set of people
by RSS on Nov 04, 2013 08:24 PM | Hide message
South India has Gokarna - Where Lord Ganesh came to stop Ravan from taking away Shiva's Atmalinga,
We also have many Shakti peetas to celebrate Navaratri, (Kollur Mookambika, Horanadu, Sringeri, Chamundi, Kanchi, Madurai to name a few)
As far as Diwali is concerned, Sivakasi is the leading producer of crackers in India.
South India is in no way inferior to celebrate festivals.
It was upto 90s. Most of the People by then. didn't earn much money. They used to wait bonus amount. The salary & bonus was used to buy new clothes, sweets etc. For most of the households, this was activity done only once in year. Hence everybody used to wait eagerly for this festival.
But Post 90s. overall living standard has been increased substantially. People buy clothes, gadgets,cars, appliances throughout the year. Eating a Laddoo is no longer joy.
We have a clothes shop. I still rememeber, during 90s, we kept shop open even upto 11 pm. Still people floodin in. I still remeber the customers who used to buy the clothes only during diwali..Now that generation has gone and hence charm of diwali too
No, diwali has not lost its charm. But yes with times some things have changed like the mithai dabba is replaced by choclates or kurkure, the spend is more on electronic items (read gadgets) rather than on clothes, patakas have gone trendy.. a bit chinese actually !!!
Sadly,you have no knowledge of the religious festivals in India and its important values. Hence this consequent the ignorance of the younger generation.
