Happy Valentine day to all of you, after all 14th Feb was the day when St. Valentine attained his
martyrdom and on this day we "celebrate" the import of his legend to India. I don't understand the logic of importing St. Valentine to India when we have our own Lord Krishna, Meera, Heer-Ranjha. Why we need an occasion to show love to our dearest? Din ho Holi Raat Diwali, Roz manati Madhushala. Like no one has a monopoly over truth, love and morality similarly no day can have monopoly over love and by extension of the same logic no "Sena" has a monopoly over "ethical" and "moral" bedrocks of a society, culture or civilization. No film industry produces more films on Love theme than our own Bollywood and still we need Valentine day to practice love. The same logic applies to the concept of Father's day, Mother's day, Friendship day blah blah blah. The highest selling "item" is the index of the "psyche" of a civilization and in a country where Infant Mortality Rate is 50 per thousand we can do better by contributing something to those unfortunate infants than to give those costly roses to beloved ones. Even if 1% of our population celebrate 14th Feb and if they consume 100 Rupees by most conservative estimate than we have 100 Crore Rupee contribution on this day only and by this i think we can build atleast 100 good hospitals in remote and underdeveloped corners of India. Revolution is not only about blogs, facebook or tweets its also about going and working where no one has gone or worked before. St. Valentine will be very proud.
martyrdom and on this day we "celebrate" the import of his legend to India. I don't understand the logic of importing St. Valentine to India when we have our own Lord Krishna, Meera, Heer-Ranjha. Why we need an occasion to show love to our dearest? Din ho Holi Raat Diwali, Roz manati Madhushala. Like no one has a monopoly over truth, love and morality similarly no day can have monopoly over love and by extension of the same logic no "Sena" has a monopoly over "ethical" and "moral" bedrocks of a society, culture or civilization. No film industry produces more films on Love theme than our own Bollywood and still we need Valentine day to practice love. The same logic applies to the concept of Father's day, Mother's day, Friendship day blah blah blah. The highest selling "item" is the index of the "psyche" of a civilization and in a country where Infant Mortality Rate is 50 per thousand we can do better by contributing something to those unfortunate infants than to give those costly roses to beloved ones. Even if 1% of our population celebrate 14th Feb and if they consume 100 Rupees by most conservative estimate than we have 100 Crore Rupee contribution on this day only and by this i think we can build atleast 100 good hospitals in remote and underdeveloped corners of India. Revolution is not only about blogs, facebook or tweets its also about going and working where no one has gone or worked before. St. Valentine will be very proud.
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