It is 11am on 13 October 2012
And another round of festivals are about to begin the next week (the 9-day festival of Navratri and Dasserah as well as Eid) and another round of opportunities for lateral thinking and innovatively-responsible celebrations seems to have been missed. In fact my dear wife remarked the other day that it does not take rocket science to provide contraptions that obviates the need to dig up roads for erecting pandals and decorative light fixtures. She also had a bright spark of an idea that the 9 nights of Navratri could be celebrated keeping in mind nine different segments of a community.
I could see great merit in extrapolating her suggestions to evolve a new concept of the festival itself – that of thanksgiving to (1) security agency personnel, (2) teachers, (3) craftsmen such as masons, carpenters, electricians, tailors, plumbers and garage mechanics, (4) retailers and wholesalers such as grocers, (5) health-workers such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and paramedics, (6) farmers, hunters and fishermen, (7) media persons such as news reporters, (8) transport agency personnel such as bus drivers and rail motormen, auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers, cargo handlers, courier agency personnel, and (9) entertainment providers such as musicians, theatre artistes, dancers, story-tellers.
I am sure you may have other wonderful ideas on how to celebrate festivals in an innovatively-responsible and contemporary manner. Please share the same with me.
Wishing you a great week ahead.
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