Realigion v/s patriotism

Realigion v/s patriotism
(August Special)

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It is not fair to say that in India, more festivals are celebrated in a particular month, because according to Indian tradition, one's life is interwoven with religion and festivals connected with that religion.  Hey!  Festivals one after another!  Despite the same tendency, the festivities of each festival are different, the variety of traditions associated with it, the traditions are different, and the interconnected stories, jokes and styles are also different too! Perhaps the paradox of this trend is unity in diversity! Just have a look on it:

Religious festivals in India
Festivals during August	Chief center of the festivities
Raksha Bandhan	Many States
Ker Puja	Tripura
Janmashtami	Many States
Patriot’s day	Manipur
Independence Day	Throughout the country
Parsi New Year	Gujarat and Maharashtra
Ganesh Chaturthi	Many States
Ayyankali Jayanthi/ Ramdev Jayanthi/  Teja Dashami	Ayyankali Jayanthi -  Kerala Ramdev Jayanthi/  Teja Dashami - Rajasthan
Ashura/Karam	Ashura – Many States Karam – Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal,
Thiruvonam	Kerala
Bakr Id/Eid al Adha	Jammu & Kashmir
Baba Sri Chand Ji Jayanti	Punjab

In the old days, festivals were the central reason for the relaxation, the interconnection of each other, and the interconnectedness.  But, fanatics are not able to accept science as an invention just because of this science was linked to the scourge of religion one way or another!

But these people are not fanatics they are religious blind and when religion and the monarchy come together in administration and the supremacy overrides the monarchy, the nation begins to collapse! Just like termite, eating wood, religion destroys the future of the religious nation.

There was some scientific fact behind each festive celebration, but these fanatics rejected the truth somewhere and put the nation at risk, the nation itself!

Speaking of smallpox, what is the purpose behind eating cold?  And why can't people accept that cold eating does not cause a smallpox disease, so we should be ashamed of the fact that though Edward Genre discovered the vaccine and made the world smallpox free!  Hey!  Why to blame only educate and illiterate and the ignorant people, even the educated and the so called elite also increase such superstitions.  And in the past, the removal of smallpox was not possible, that is why people started worshiping SHITLA MATAJI mother as a force against which no force could be used.  Even when only one vaccine has been able to protect against this deadly disease like smallpox at present, some people do not even go to the hospital till the baby dies!  Why? Superstitions in people's lives have made home so much that people don't even have to try to go to reality!

Even so, it is difficult to say in what direction the current affairs will take the nation by connecting religion with the monarchy. Even so, it is difficult to say in which direction the current affairs will take the nation by connecting religion with the monarchy.

And most importantly!  In addition to this, we are reminded only that we have attained independence this August?  The answer is that, NO!  It just like full of bloodsheds!  A blood-soaked, tear-filled, pain-stricken month, and perhaps this is why people keep curtaining and talking about it in different ways, celebrating and kneeling down, and that is why people are involved in political and social issues.  The matter is currently being abused.

Ganeshotsav is currently underway.  But the problem is, what does it mean to associate such religious festivals with the monarchy!

If democracy means the same by the people, for the people and of he people, then the value of personal freedom here is being true or not!  And if so, to what extent?  Now-a-days some Ganpati Pandals we get to hear the Aarti as well as the national anthem with it!

Together this time is not only a time of independence but also a time of partition.

From 1947 to the present day, there is still something missing that partitionnovels and movies are constantly coming to our attention.  Artists in one way or another are constantly emitting this fustration.

In addition, the violence and acts committed by the people in the name of nation love may not be misleading us somewhere and it is very important to be aware of that!  The Bloody Line and देेेश- एक राग! are very good examples of this.

We are living in the so-called 21st Century and perhaps we still have time to wake up, save the nation from being plunged into darkness!  But when?  When will we finally come to light from darkness, and when our eyes will see not only the clothes but also the ideas in terms of modernity!  When do we get down from the pinnacle of ignorance!  Till when will we allow the superstitions that have been going on for years and the religion, the customs of the nation to be removed from the nation!  We have all the answer, but it is only as often as we implement it, but the problem is that this will be implemented in the end but when!