Party ! Party ! party ! these words often resonate in the air as you stand stranded midst your cronies and comrades on the auspicious day on which you were born.Such celebrations have almost become ubiquitous everywhere in India despite its exotic nature. To, me blind aping of alien mores and manners seem a sheer act of absurdity .why such high decibel drama of being in frenzy of madness and gyrating before an eatable (cake) that fails to be a customary mouth watering Indian eating stuff ? Did our predecessors celebrate this day in the same vein ? Perhaps no,for them this day meant to be harbinger of enunciating epochal changes. For them this day meant to strengthen your resolves and to show your servility to Almighty.For them this day meant to seek baskets of blessings of elderly people who unfailingly goaded and guided you till you smooched your success. With them this day meant to be on being splurging spree for poors and offering largess to impoverished section of society.More or less this day in olden days was almost confined to dating with deities and offering them prasad and then distributing it among your nears and dears.It was more or less quite holistic and salubrious in nature.Now we witness that Tennysonian old order has definitely changed but has changed for worse and has yielded to new modes of extra mod celebrations but alas!it has jettisoned the very ring of halo which used to hedge around the head of a birthday boy/girl. It has now been replaced by all mere show off and indulgence in drinking binge where all etiquette are broken into smithereens. Where is any relevance of being so euphoric and euphonious with excitements; and that too for seeking mawkish popularity which is transitory in nature ? why to go for exorbitantly costly gifts wrapped in glistening cover when a simple hug of your bosom friend will suffice to elongate and strengthen the bond friendship?Why to sing in unison cadenced and lilting lollipop of hackneyed and cloyed Happy birthday when simply acknowledging virtues of your friend is required? Can,t we bid adieu to this westernized mode of birthday celebration with its rigmarole of frills and frivolities ?An Indianized mode of birthday celebration can usher our life towards moral righteousness and will ensure steady moral growth.So,let us hold fast to our ever dwindling old customary celebrations to make our life worthy of being breathed in and out . Be Indians in every bits and pieces and endear yourself to be enamored by unfading glory of customary birthday celebrations ;which is more wholesome than a modern Birthday Bash...!
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