Friends

Diwali festival is over now after a week long vacation. As if the time again started rolling. It was almost standstill except social get togethers or sharing gifts and sweets. I appreciate the values behind all our festivals, the stories behind them and the teachings by these festivals. The festivals give sanskars to us, remind us of our cultural values and above all provide us a chance of social get togethers. Infact we indians used to celebrate festivals for vacations too. But in present time, I fail to understand the longivity of these festivals. Because in my view we enjoy almost 150 holidays in a year of 365 days which is probably highest in the world. Being a developing nation, more vacations result into delay to become developed nations. Or in other way we are passing more responsibilities on our generations to come to work harder. Had we reduce the holidays by half, we would have been probably a developed nation by now or atleast the new generation would have born in a developed country.

Last 5 years had given us a golden chance to become a powerful developed nation, but we missed it and god knows when it would be repeated in future. We hsould seriously look into such issues and reduce the number of holidays in a year otherwise we would not be able to encash the strength of highest number young people in the world.

cpjain