It's party time. Time to buy Gift.

Greetings,

Let me ask you a simple question. How many parties have you attended in last 1 month? How many gifts have you given or received in recent months?

Our culture has evolved in recent years. If we call our culture a party culture now, I won't be too wrong. We always keep our eyes and ears open to identify a cause for party, find a reason to buy a gift. I envy the owners of Archies, Hanung (btw, have you sen Hanung scrip touching new highs?) etc. Maybe, it's our feeble attempt to find bit of happiness, although fake, in today's stressful times.

Even in late 90s, in *higher middle class families* if I may use this word, celebrating a birthday used to mean visitng gurudwara, going to school wearing anything but uniform with a pack of toffees given by mother. Bit more fancied families used to have some party with pastries, pakoras, rasna etc and probably take some pics using their Yashica or Kodak camera.

Now, even families with low incomes will celebrate the birthday like a wedding. Cards will be printed, invitations will be sent, return gifts will be bought. Either a caterer is arranged or party will arranged at McDonald, Papa John's or any lovely restaurant in the city but not home. If the family doesn't have a camcorder, a video guy will also be arranged.
For next few days, same video will be posted on YouTube, pics will be put on Flickr. Do you wish to add some more???

There are more days to celebrate and give/take gifts. Na na..I am not saying that population has increased and we have birthdays and anniversary days. Society and business have come together to find more days like Father's Day, Mother's day, Brother's Day, Sister's Day, Mother-in-law's day, teacher's day, engineer's day..the list is endless. If you are arduous enough to amke the list, you will find that the annual calendar falls short to accommodate all these days.


Ain't this blog writer wasting time writing this scrap? Go man, have a party but before that buy a gift!!
~ Navjot Singh Sohanpal