14th Feb, Valentine's Day...decidedly its one of the most interesting days of the year and I am saying this despite the fact that I am single. I find it interesting because you get to see a lot of action.
Weeks before VD, the newspapers, radio stations, television, etc start nagging us with all sorts of ads and other pre-valentine and valentine preparations. You get to see ads of all the valentine parties, gifts which you can possibly buy for your valentine, to do lists, not to do lists, how to dress up perfectly for that perfect date, your horoscope in sunday times, love qoutient of all sun signs, whether the week ahead will be romantic for you or not?...
A day before 14th people start asking you, 'so whats ur plan for tommorrow, anything special?..are u coming to college or going out on a date?'...oh! whatever it is, even if I am going somewhere why should I tell you and even if I am not going anywhere you won't believe it, so why bother? huh! whatever...
The beginning of the day itself is quite interesting.... I travel by train everyday and even on normal days the discussions that you get to hear is much beyond being just interesting. The various comments on the colour of the dress that you are wearing, women complaining about how thier husbands forget it every year then say sorry 10 times, the discussion about the gifts they recieve from their hubbys, their evening plans, all the teasing, giggling that goes on....
Then I reach college, and you see all of us either dressed up in red or pink, giving chocolates to each other, hosting silly contests like 'make a proposal contest' and 'best couple contest'. Everywhere you are surrounded with stuff that keeps reminding you that today is valentine's day...
And amongst all this celebration, we have shiv sena's agitation, this part is kind of funny but its irritating for all the shopkeepers who hope to earn a good profit by selling all the lovey-dovey stuff. Everybody wonders what is wrong with these crazy shiv sainiks, why are they so against VD...even I dont know....a set of people who dont want this western culture in India, a bunch of hypocrates or may be because they themselves have failed in love...I dont know...Recently, I saw the film 'Anwar', the film has tried to find some reasons for why all the protests take place, if you see the film you will realise that the reasons, if they are true, are kind of funny..
But whatever it is, this whole valentine thing is not all that bad, definitely not something you need to protest against...I am not the anti-valentine's day type but I dont believe in extreme elaborate celebrations, may be I am saying this because I dont have anyone to celebrate it with...
Well, I am not trying to make any point out of all this....I would just say that all those people who are in love are very beautiful, hope they continue to be in love...God bless you all and the others too [after all, the others have managed to be out of love all this while:)]...
and yes of course...
Wish you a very Happy Valentine's Day!
Je tu baddal kaala...main neer haan teri
8 years ago
