Its always about the people and the city...

This is the first time, for no particular reason, that I did not finish a piece in one go and had a chance to drop a word about it to a few friends. A mention of this topic had unidirectional reaction. It was simple. Most male friends turned and made humming sounds to put a sound curtain, others dug their head in a pillow to filter 'noise,'  while few were generous to spare extreme reaction and gave a sweet blank look of no comments.   The female friends on other hand, without going into the details gave a casual look of being clueless or biased or worse, ignorant. My feedback is that they knew less about it than the boys. Boys had secretly researched about it to update self created Wikipedia section of their brain or maybe had a practical situation thrown at them at a point of time... Girls had of course taken it personally and rejected the idea, most of them...   So my point is not to stir the territory, I just succumbed to the series ...

I wish India was a Turkey eating nation, or that someone had attached a gimmick or financial sense around this festival...then Thanksgiving would have been popular by now. Alas! there is no way India would celebrate any festival that does not crop out of mythology or history or just a belief. I remember as a child when we had to write an essay on India, It would invariably begin with "India is a country of festivals." Then it would transcend from diversity to languages and religions and the usuals... I like festivals in general. But that is probably because I like anything that acts as an excuse to get together. Doing something for the sake of tradition... or routine of tradition, strictly on numbered days in a  year, doesn't really bother me. But coming back to Thanksgiving, its sad that we Indians are in a way on extreme edges. On one hand, I know how certain political/ radical groups and other Individuals I personally know have been dead against the ...