Christmas Day as Good Governance Day? Santa’s day out with kids to be negated in order that kids may recite poems about governance, as if to sneakily suggest that Christmas is somehow a ‘foreign’ festival, Christianity a religion from foreign lands, celebrated by ‘non-Indians’ read westernised Macaulayputras? So marking Christmas is a colonial hangover, its repudiation a sign of ‘Indian’ distinctiveness from the rest of the world? How wrong can you get, HRD ministry!
Markets even across the so-called Vedic heartland are alive with trees, stars, angels and carols, in Kerala mass is said in Malayalam, in Goa in Konkani, and a typical Christmas meal ranges from cake to spicy local fare, ladies attend church in their best saris, and the Read More
