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Where is your festive spirit?
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by Picturejockey | September 28, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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Where is your festive spirit?Something is different. Over the past few years I have been used to reading news related to navratri and dandia. Business news like how the sale of condoms suddenly picks up during this time, how the rates of hotel rooms in Maharashtra and Gujrat shoot up as a lot of youngsters are queuing up to rent them on an hourly rate. Employment news like how a lot of young boys, specially the college students, are working as escorts for “aunties” whose husbands not available/free to take them to the garbha and news about the private detectives who suddenly get a surge of assignments from parents to spy on their kids, mainly daughters.
What has happened? Have these festival news lost out print space to inflation and terrorism or the people have suddenly lost their mojo... Oops, the festive spirit.
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at 14:32 on September 29th, 2008
What is the festival about?
at 23:41 on October 5th, 2008
The period of 9 days before the new moon at this time of the year is auspicious among Indians from different places celebrate it in different ways throughout the country. In Western India, primarily in the states of Gujrat and Maharashtra, this is celebrated by having a community dance called dandia or Garbha.
Though it is celebrated differently, the common thread is the godess Durga who is worshipped during during those nine days.
at 23:50 on October 5th, 2008
Thanks very much for your explanation. Can you elaborate it more for readers from elsewhere in the world.