Dear friends,
Uttarakhand culture have great traditions for the years, we have almost one festival every month with start of a new month. But in our present generation hardly any pahri can tell those all festival names. But other hand leaving our great traditions and rich culture we are running behind the other culture accepting their traditions and customs. It I feel shameful, we have to rethink about it, our traditions and customs should not become a fashion statement or influence of media hype. I give you some examples:
1. Cake cutting and lighting off the candle, it is very wrong tradition we start every function or event with lighting of lamp and in a birth day part we are doing just oppsite. I feel it very objectionable, since we have also have our traditions of celebration of birthday with Kartkeya Puja and other rituals.
2. Karwa Chauth fast is very common nowadys due to the propeganda of medi but hardly any woman know about VAT SAVITRI AMAVASYA or HARITALI FAST.
3. Marriage celbrations are become now all punjabi show sha, Mehandi, Jai mala etc all are not in our tradition other hand we are not performing our customs in marriages.
4. We are leaving our old tradition of Jagaran, Jagar and Puja as it is orthodox and we are performing Mata ki Chowki and Mata ka jagrata which is totally commercialised.
I am not against any culture or traditions, but if we have some customs & traditions why should we leave them and accept others customs just because of media hype.
We have to learn from Punjabis that after show many set back they people remain their identity all over the world with their great traditions of Punjabis at the level that Punjabis become the symbol of Indian Culture.
I we want to identify ourselves as Uttarakhandi/Pahari we have to rethink over it and go to our roots and rediscover our great traditions, culture and customs. I think there is nothing wrong in it and it is not against any other culture or people.
नही तो वही बात होगी कौवा चला हंस की चाल और भूला अपनी भी चाल
