^ Dhu's important post above.
<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Feb 18 2009, 06:34 PM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Feb 18 2009, 06:34 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->How do they celebrate Valentine's day in India? Rather how do they <b>think</b> it is observed in the west and are merely imitating that?
[right][snapback]94690[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Can't answer the actual question you're asking. But about that blue thing. Yes, they must be imitating their <i>idea</i> of what the west supposedly does.
No one where I live celebrates valentine's day. The stores do try to sell stuff at the time - mostly jewellery, and kitchen appliances too for some reason. And maybe engagement rings might be purchased some days around mid-Feb (only because they would be marked down 'on sale' during that week). But I am around couples all the time and have noticed how no one budges a bit during that period of Feb when the clueless in India's high-society dramatically pretend to catch The Fever.
(One young man here - of European origin - who is actually engaged, worked from early morning to late evening for 3 days including Feb 14. He didn't care it was Saturday and cared less that it was supposed to be valentine's day.)
Same thing in NL when I was there: there would be some extra hearts on girls'/women's magazine covers. High school would allow people to send roses to somebody. Not many participated, though the ones that did got hyper-excited (they're kids: being in love meant the beginning or end of the world to them). Sometimes a class teacher would 'secretly' send roses to all the students in his class. I kid you not. Cute.
Adults did nothing special. No special meals, no special time, nothing.
It may be that in Amerika and UK people actually get worked up on Feb 14, I don't know.
Indians like pretending to be fashionable by following in excess everything they *imagine* others (the originators) are doing. The unoriginal attempts at playing fashionistas would be slightly more convincing - and consequently not quite as much a source of amusement for others looking on - if the copycats actually were successful in it...
But I always say Never scare away entertainment. Clueless people's behaviour makes Comedy Hour for others. I don't care what anyone says, Reality TV is no alternative.
<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+Feb 18 2009, 04:11 PM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ Feb 18 2009, 04:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->You know more about this nisha susan? If you're on facebook, she is running a big group with 50,000 members, all kinds of hindu bashers.[right][snapback]94689[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Nisha susan is a christian. And that's enough to work out the Why.
Any psecular 'Hindus' hanging in her 50,000 strong twit-twat parade probably deeply believe nisha is as secular as they think they themselves are. More accurately, they would be thinking that her christianism is itself a badge of psecularism. In one sense they are right: psecularism IS christianism. Including their own.
But she couldn't possibly have gained such a large following only since the airing of NDTV's latest drama serial (when NDTV was coincidentally pre-positioned to snap film of the "women harrassed by Hindu goondas"). No, she must have had a clique of madmen following her e-paper-trail for a long time now and who all jumped like lemmings after her on this latest adventure.
<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Feb 18 2009, 06:34 PM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Feb 18 2009, 06:34 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->How do they celebrate Valentine's day in India? Rather how do they <b>think</b> it is observed in the west and are merely imitating that?
[right][snapback]94690[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Can't answer the actual question you're asking. But about that blue thing. Yes, they must be imitating their <i>idea</i> of what the west supposedly does.
No one where I live celebrates valentine's day. The stores do try to sell stuff at the time - mostly jewellery, and kitchen appliances too for some reason. And maybe engagement rings might be purchased some days around mid-Feb (only because they would be marked down 'on sale' during that week). But I am around couples all the time and have noticed how no one budges a bit during that period of Feb when the clueless in India's high-society dramatically pretend to catch The Fever.
(One young man here - of European origin - who is actually engaged, worked from early morning to late evening for 3 days including Feb 14. He didn't care it was Saturday and cared less that it was supposed to be valentine's day.)
Same thing in NL when I was there: there would be some extra hearts on girls'/women's magazine covers. High school would allow people to send roses to somebody. Not many participated, though the ones that did got hyper-excited (they're kids: being in love meant the beginning or end of the world to them). Sometimes a class teacher would 'secretly' send roses to all the students in his class. I kid you not. Cute.
Adults did nothing special. No special meals, no special time, nothing.
It may be that in Amerika and UK people actually get worked up on Feb 14, I don't know.
Indians like pretending to be fashionable by following in excess everything they *imagine* others (the originators) are doing. The unoriginal attempts at playing fashionistas would be slightly more convincing - and consequently not quite as much a source of amusement for others looking on - if the copycats actually were successful in it...
But I always say Never scare away entertainment. Clueless people's behaviour makes Comedy Hour for others. I don't care what anyone says, Reality TV is no alternative.
<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+Feb 18 2009, 04:11 PM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ Feb 18 2009, 04:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->You know more about this nisha susan? If you're on facebook, she is running a big group with 50,000 members, all kinds of hindu bashers.[right][snapback]94689[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Nisha susan is a christian. And that's enough to work out the Why.
Any psecular 'Hindus' hanging in her 50,000 strong twit-twat parade probably deeply believe nisha is as secular as they think they themselves are. More accurately, they would be thinking that her christianism is itself a badge of psecularism. In one sense they are right: psecularism IS christianism. Including their own.
But she couldn't possibly have gained such a large following only since the airing of NDTV's latest drama serial (when NDTV was coincidentally pre-positioned to snap film of the "women harrassed by Hindu goondas"). No, she must have had a clique of madmen following her e-paper-trail for a long time now and who all jumped like lemmings after her on this latest adventure.