"Give it a miss if you want to avoid the crowd. The monkeys too can be rather mischievous." REDIFF writers are sinking from bad to worse. This womancan't write clearly and is srtill in school or something. Photos are very nice. She should stick to photos and leave the writing to people who know how.
"Try the local cuisine, take long walks in the plantations, enjoy the beautiful and fresh air or simply laze around sitting and sipping on a cup of tea whispering sweet nothings" This crap is what brochures prrint. REDIFF, hire good writers. At least writers who know english. Anita Bora doesn't know the language well. She must be from Sikkim or Meghalaya. LOL
Valentines day is just promotion of consumption. This the game of Multinationals and their national agents. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitmen" book. You will understand the game. Rediff is also willingly or unknowingly part of the game. irrespective of religion oppose Valentines day. Keep banners in your localities.
India survived for corers of years without vanentines day. Only two hundred year old country like USA is teaching us the way of expressing such love. New generation is falling for it. May be correct or wrong. I am not to judge that. But just for the sake of easy life, do not forget our family values and social responsibilities. USA is a short story of totally around 300 years or so, not like Inida with history of corers of years. Some young acadamically qualified but socialy unaducated may not agree with me and may emphasis on celebrating Valentine's day in India to suit their commercial needs. But our culture is to celebrate each day as day of loved once. Do indians need to celebrate Mother!s, father!s, Grandma!s, Loved ones(Valentine) day. No, Every day is a day of all living beings. In crores of years History of our Indians, there is no reference of celebrating such days please.
But this does not mean that I am against the business that this day generates, which is a main intention of valentines day.
Only those can respond, who can give their very considered opinion. No foolish comments expected please.
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by smile on Feb 13, 2008 11:02 AM Permalink
India has survives crores of years without technology also..then y cant we survive now. Lets get back to our olden days where there was no phone, computer, internet, TV etc etc. What say Mr Thilak
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by Javeed Ali on Feb 10, 2008 12:07 PM Permalink
Yes you are 100% right, our indian culture is very best culture than any other country, but we are following westerns. and I remember you that famous poet Allama Iqbal (Sare Jahan se Accha)has mentioned that in his poetry that Western culture is very dangerous killer it not kills suddenly but slowly slowly.
RE:RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by smile on Feb 13, 2008 11:05 AM Permalink
Dnt talk about ur famous poet..that idiot has written saare jahan se acha hinstan hamara. Amd as soon as partition was over he shifted to pakistan and rewrote the song as "saare jahan se acha pakistan hamara"! Now do u want to follow waht he says.he himslf was not sure of what he was saying
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by anand bedarkar on Feb 13, 2008 10:29 AM Permalink
Life is change. In a free society, iy is for every body's liking that they should adopt. Liking / pleasure ca not be generalised
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by jhon ferns on Feb 10, 2008 03:33 PM Permalink
here come a day with all problems what this day stand for is not known to many,but those who know this day Feb 14th will really know the value of it,for no matter how commerical it may be for every festival in india has been made too comerical to fill the pockets of the company but what matter at the end of the day is the true value will be known in a rose for the person we love that all that matters, jhon
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by trikarn on Feb 10, 2008 12:46 PM Permalink
mr. jayant, i agree that we are a older culture compared with the west. but dont u agree with GANDIJI that let all culture be freely blown in my house, but not to be swept off our feet by any? i think our youth can withstand these and more! after all the lineage of an old civilization exists in all of us.thenwe also had days like kama festivals which is the indian equivalent of valentine, celebrating kamadeva or manmatha!
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by Rahul Gupta on Feb 14, 2008 04:18 PM Permalink
I agree completely..you dont need valentines day to express love at the first place. Second, on this day vulgarity touches a new high. People get a chance to go physical and blame it on St Valentine...Valentine's day is a discovery of USa merely to satisfy the consumerism of that country. One can not imagine the amount of money St Valentine generates in the form of cards, gifts, flowers and condoms. I agree completely with Jayant. India and its culture of respecting the adult and keeping love out of PDA ( public Display of Affection) model I believe is a much helathier than Americans PDA model wherein a kid may have multiple father and mother from each other.
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by akshay on Feb 10, 2008 06:56 PM Permalink
yesss i do agree...this is basically a marketing stunts where foreign companies sell there products very well in this country coz of over-hype n unnecessary attention given by the media....frnds try n come 2 mumbai (can talk abt mum only coz stayin in dis city...dont no abt rest cities)n try gettin a room in a hotel....Is this valentine day all about?????
RE:its another good business with so many fools to spend
by Grey on Feb 10, 2008 11:42 AM Permalink
whats your problem if a day is marked so lovers can get together
RE:Protest
by vishwas aa on Feb 12, 2008 10:12 PM Permalink
u ar wrightly ritting wot u tink n ur uselyss brian uf yurs....u git 100/100 inn ur engeleesh klasses lik i du.... (kammooonyst......ha ha ha ha...good one...pea brain...)
RE:RE:Protest
by SP on Feb 11, 2008 10:01 AM Permalink
A sentence having 18 words out of that 7 spelling mistakes. And this modern Indian does not know the spelling of his mother country India. What will be the future of our country with such guys?????
RE:raj terror
by trikarn on Feb 10, 2008 12:48 PM Permalink
o marks to u in geography and contemp affairs, mr. grey, ur name has entered ur brain also! tamil tigers exist only in srilanka, jaffna. and any way what the heck they have to do with this topic? i wish mr. grey u use ur pea brain to think better replies.
RE:raj terror
by T a s i n on Feb 11, 2008 10:11 AM Permalink
Sorry dude... zero marks for this "tamil tigers exist only in srilanka, jaffna." Check it out why u got zero out of hundred ;-)
