Is Valentines Day celebration a must for Indians?

Here is the result of our last week poll Is Valentines Day celebration a must for Indians?

Total number of people participated in the vote is 20 out of with 13, that is 65% of them voted “No”. Though we cannot take it as the 100% Indians opinion, but the result suggests something. Feb 14^th Valentines Day celebration is really not must.

Why is it not must? Here is my opinion.

Valentines Day, this day is made soo popular because of the business people, media people who wanted to make money. A Normal rose flower is sold for a minimum of 20 rs (as per few flower shops at Bangalore) on a V’day. Otherwise on a normal day the same flower is sold in kgs or rs.1 to 2 per flower? Almost 100 to 200% high on V’day? Who is getting the real benefit?

These kinds of days like Valentines Day, Fathers day, Mothers days, and Family days is started by the western country peoples. They don’t find time even to meet their own relatives like mom and dad there started a family day. Some time they don’t even find time to meet there wife. But we always lived together every day is a family day for us.

In Indian culture did we ever lacked time to meet our own parents? We always cherished with the truth that our culture belongs and revolved around parents. Certainly the join family culture has come down but it never vanished.

What really happens on V’day? On a V’day take a walk down M.G Road where you find few pubs, these pubs is filled and over flowed with couples, Are they real couples? Are they real lovers? Two guys has gone to pub out of with one guys girl friend is waiting already expecting her partner and they go inside pub to drink and dance. And the other guy is not allowed inside pub, just because on that day “you need to enter the pub only with your partner” The other guy simply find a readymade partner just to go inside the pub and have fun. Is it the Indian culture? Is he a real valentine?

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