SATURDAY.. AT HOME

Today there is Tulsi Vivaah in our colony..... I have never seen this thing before.... its like a miniature marriage itself.... u have the Baraat... women are dancing on the beats of the drum.... it seems dowry too would be given in the form of some gifts to the Pundit..... the whole thing will take place like a marriage... but without a bridegroom.... o wait a minute.. i must find out if there is any groom....

I have some how had the oppotunity of spending some time in 2 - 3 cities in India.... What I find common is the way in which people participate in their cultural and religious functions.... there is music... loads of music, which at first attracts you to see what is goin on??? Then after spending few minutes watching the whole thing.... the same music becomes a HEADACHE..... this is what's happening over here now.....

Other common things ... which i think can be found allover India without the North- South, urban- rural divide is the Civic Sense of the people... Delhi above all has a very good number of people who are very obssessed with the way they luk.... the way they carry themselves...... they should always look good, its almost MANDATORY (being good is optional though.. u will find them too yet....) so whether u board a Bus, Metro, Rickshaw..... u get to see a good number of people who present themselves in the best possible way..... But then having good BEAUTY SENSE has nothing to do with the Civic Sense.... So yesterday i saw this self proclaimed hunk..... dressed in formals.... right shirt with right trousers and of course right tie..... shoes not only matching but also shining..... He walks as if on the whole congested,, sound packed road he stood as an epitome of cleanliness... n baba CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS........ but the moment u thought that, he sqeezes his cheeks and out comes the SALIVA...... AHAHA IN A WATER SCARCE DELHI.... WHAT A RELIEF....... 


U don't have to be blessed to see these things in India...... but the thing which really takes on me is how these so called educated people carry themselves in public..... our former president Mr. Kalam had once remarked that we Indians are very good when it comes to respecting our elders AT HOME, keepeing OUR HOMES clean, following the unwritten rule of OUR FAMILY..... but once we are out of OUR LOVELY HOMES we DO NOT CARE.....In the West its just the opposite... they do not care a damn about their parents, their dirty homes.... but once in public they know how to do what we Indians do within the walls of our HOME... SWEET HOME....


Whether its vacating seat for an weak elderly(rather u hear "why on earth do they use public transport"), an exhausted women.... or alittle child... and if the above mentioned people seem to represent the poverty of our country(yes buddy we still are poor, inspite of our OLYMPIC GOLD).. the expression is that com'on they are used to travelling without seats....


though we learn these things in school... we often do not follow  them.... i donot know why..... i think not only at the school level but at the family level too these kind of VALUES should be imbibed....


this much for now.... the mantras of the TULSI VIVAH have begun.... let me see how things turn around... When i told Koyal about the tulsi marriage there was amusement whereas she too belongs to a hindi speakin state where these things are very common...


LETS SEE WHAT DO I GET TO EAT IN THE MARRIAGE....


UNTIL THEN


SAYONAARA.... AND PLEASE IF POSSIBLE ALONG WITH COMMON SENSE LETS SHOW SOME CIVIC SENSE TOO :)