HOLIDAYS – A REFLECTION OF THE HISTORY AND FESTIVALS.

Well, all counties have some holidays for the people to come on the street and celebrate their no-work days.
But what holidays do the most is the directly reminding the history and the political climate of the country and of course how administration is looking at the religions of the country.
Take for example India, a secular country, here we have all people of all religions, the Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis and even the Jews, with their sub- beliefs , the Brahmins, and other classes of Hindus, along with Roman Catholics and Protestants, and admittedly so many other classes in other religions , with their various places of worships , and meeting places and their in-fighting’s, and their demands to the administration for celebrating their days be declared as holidays.
In the British Raj there holidays giving more weight to Hindus and Christians and two holidays to celebrate the British Empire and king’s birth day.
After independence however the scene changed , there are some gazette holidays , means all state of the country shall declare that particular days as holidays, , and some holidays shall be state holidays, means the particular state shall have some liberty to please the subjects of that particular state.
India is particularly a fine blend of so many religions; hence we have more than 35 festivals celebrated in various states of India as compared to America which a fine example of people of so many countries.
But admittedly , the holidays for the religion other than one which one professes, reminds the person , that there are others in his country and their contribution was and is as great as their owns.