The festivities have begun and I see joy and cheer all around me. But sadly enough, I am typing this while seated in my office cubicle.Anyways, today is a festive friday and not just because its 'Holi' day. Coincidentally, we are celebrating 4 festivals today. Apart from Holi, today is the new year day 'Navroz' celebrations for Parsis and Iranians, it's Good Friday for Christians and its Eid-e-Milad-un-Nibah for Muslims.
This is a great occasion for celebrating 'unity in diversity' and a fantastic example of a secular society. Though I can go on and on about our great confluence of cultures, I shall refrain from doing so today. Maybe in some other future post of mine I shall elaborate on this and speak about our secular credentials.
Lets just enjoy the day, enrich our weekend and revel in our cultural bindings. Hope I can escape early from office and spend the rest of the day with family, and indulge in gluttony ..... bring on the pakodas and sharbats [read bhaang]
rang barse bheege chunarwali rang barse ........................ holi hai
3 comments:
u r stuck at off for a long time dear...........
Just a reminder that "Good Friday" is not a "festival" that we "celebrate". It is a day of mourning for the death of Jesus Christ.
While I agree that it's a mourning, but it's also celebrated in many parts of the world. Here's the link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday.
I am providing some excerpts:
[a] The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord takes place in the afternoon, ideally at three o'clock, but for pastoral reasons a later hour may be chosen
[b] Solemn celebrations take place in all churches together with processions in different villages around Malta and Gozo. During the celebration, the narrative of the passion is read in some localities.
[c] Lutheranism had no restrictions on the celebration of Holy Communion on Good Friday; on the contrary, it was a prime day on which to receive Holy Communion, and services were often accentuated by special music such as the St. Matthew Passion by Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach.
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