The Hindu Festivals
By Kedar Joshi, Fri Dec 9th

Almost all of the Hindu festivals are bogus, childish, andabsolutely rubbish. Here I explain how.

1. Makar Sankranti (Capricorn Transition of Sun)- It iscelebrated by giving Til Gool, a kind of round sweet ediblething, to each other and saying Til Gool Ghya Ani God Bola.(i.e. have this til gool and speak good.) Now how many peoplereally speak good because of this? Almost none! Simplyridiculous!

2. Holi and Rangapanchami (A kind of fire night to burn evilfollowed by some colourful celebration) - A huge fire iscreated, at innumerably many places across the country (i.e.India), for the sake of burning evil. However, what is literallyburnt is wood and loads of air is created. The nextday water balloons and colours are heavily used to throw atcivilians which causes injuries and interruption to normalduties/routine. What a shame!

3. Nagpanchami - This festival celebrates and worships thereptile 'snake', which is offered milk on the basis of themisbelief that it likes milk, where, in fact, it does not drinkmilk at all. Quite silly!

4. Raksha Bandhan (Promise of Protection)- In this festival asister ties a Rakhi, a kind of funny band, on the wrist/s of herbrother/s expecting a promise that he/they will protect

her inhostile circumstances. (where actually the sole interest of thesister is often to get money out of her brother/s pocket/s.)

5. Ganesh Chaturthi (Celebrating the funny-looking elephantheaded god)- Loads of huge (as well as tiny and medium size)Ganesh statues are created, worshipped, and finally sunk inrivers and seas. All this is accompanied by loads of noise &water and severe disruption on roads demanding policeforces. Pathetic!

6. Dashera, Dussehra (also known as Vijayadashami) - In the nameof burning evil, a massive Ravan doll is burnt at many placesacross the country, causing loads of air and noise pollution.Absolutely childish!

7. Divali / Deepavali It is mainly celebrated with millions offire crackers all over the country with absolute disregard tonature and civilians. It is even fearsome and possibly fatefulto travel in those periods as roads are full of burningfirecrackers !!! Simply annoying, barbaric, and Rubbish!

About the author:I was born on 31 Dec 1979 in Mumbai (Bombay), India, where Ilived for the first 15 years of my life. Then I moved to Pune(Poona). In March 2004 I came to Cambridge, England where Icurrently live and work.

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