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Halloween comes to India!

Motherhood· My Take

3 Nov
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‘Om Jai Halloween hare’!
 

That’s how we are embracing this new festival in India.Surprisingly,this year I am seeing Halloween everywhere ,kids dressed as different characters,teens are scarier,parties,selfies,contests on Facebook and twitter.It’s all over the place.It sounds like fun,but do we really understand it?The funniest incident was when this really cute kid,did a ‘puja’ for Halloween.When she was questioned,her innocent answer was ,’Halloween’ is a festival.Aren’t we supposed to pray on festivals?’.My heart goes out to her.



Halloween is also known as ,’All Hallows’ Eve’,time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.In Asia,countries like China,HongKong ,Vietnam,Indonesia and the others celebrate seventh month of the year as per the Chinese calendar where they offer food ,clothes etc to their ancestors.Equivalent to this is ‘Pitrapaksh’ in India with a similar concept.Here we do pujas and rituals in a more quiet and subdued manner to pay respect to our ancestors.
‘Calling of the spirit’ is considered a part of our mythology and in Buddhism they believe in the concept of ‘karma’,where your deeds in the past life is the genesis of next life.In most countries the same concept of playing with the spirit is celebrated as Halloween.

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A typical Jack-O’-Lantern

p.s.The views expressed in the blog are my own and are not intended to hurt anyone’s personal feelings.I would be happy to give credit for pictures .


The pumpkin-The ‘Jack-O-Lanterns’ or the pumpkin lanterns are ward off any evil spirits.
Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, and mythical monsters.Now why do we want to introduce our kids to such morbid things in life?


Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related “guising“), attending costume parties,decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted house attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories and watching horror films.

In India ,Halloween has started with a great deal of fanfare,as kids get another chance to wear fancy dress and get a lot of candy.I myself,have distributed them to kids who came saying ‘Trick o Treat’ to my door.How can you say no to these cute,excited kids?


 
In the course of writing this blog,I also asked some mothers around whose kids participated and not participated in this festival this year,quoting some views;
“I see more and more pictures of Halloween celebration this year on Facebook,though I am not sure if we know enough about the what,why and how?I am absolutely in favour of adding a little global flavour into our lives,but it needs to be meaningful or anchored to something’,Shaveta Bhardwaj,Group Accountant Director,Millward Brown India.
“When it becomes a cult,if some kids do not enjoy will become outcasts amongst their friends.So it takes very strong character at their age to say that I am not in for this party as I don’t see any logic to it”,Anamika Singh,Corporate Banking recruiter,in a Singapore based MNC.Further quoting Anamika,”Diwali,Eid or Christmas shows more culture and richness of our country. Rather than following  something blindly”.
“My kids just enjoy Halloween and love dressing up and getting candy.”,this was the viewpoint of most moms embracing Halloween.


Conceptually,I don’t agree much with this festival.I mean if you do have to adapt,’Thanksgiving’ is a much nicer festival in it’s spirit.Families ,sitting down together for dinner(a concept,slowly fading in India too).It signifies,family traditions and togetherness and bonding.What does Halloween signify?Have the parents thought ,how to explain this festival to their children?Just dressing up and getting candy is not ‘Halloween’.

p.s.The views expressed on the blog are my own and not intended to hurt anyone’s feelings.I will be happy to give credit to anyone who claims this pictures.

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  1. Anonymous says

    February 10, 2015 at 06:50

    Hello! Firstly I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here..you’re even contradicting yourself towards the end :-O. Shall we just take things with a pinch of salt ;-)? Why be okay with Thanksgiving in your opinion, you kind of sound like a moral police don’t you think? It’s a free country, adapt or take in or leave it – it’s a personal choice. Mums may not necessarily be “embracing” a culture just because they let their kids dress up and get candy…maybe they’ve lived abroad and understand it better? Are you saying a bunch of non-Indians playing Holi, dancing and having a few drinks are “embracing” our culture? I don’t think so. That way the list is never-ending- why should we be okay with play dates or sleepovers? Because it gives us a break? Personal choice right? 🙂

    Cheers

    P.S.- It would help if your blogs had a grammar check and a uniform font all across…

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  2. Prerna Sinha says

    February 10, 2015 at 09:31

    Hey,first of all thanks for reading the entire post.The views on the blog are mine and are my personal choice as you said.But of course,I didn’t want to sound like a moral police ,so talked to other moms and did mention their viewpoints.As you have rightly mentioned ,most of my friends who have lived abroad don’t agree to my views and I can relate to it.Only thing that I don’t understand is when you mention that I am contradicting myself.I have maintained my viewpoint throughout the blog.Also when you’re posting such a strong viewpoint it would be great if you could share your name and bloglink if you have any.

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