Malpe Sunset

Snaps of Malpe beach just before sunset, on a hot summer day in May.

Birthday bumps

Birthday is really a day to celebrate. I don't like personally to celebrate my birthday. The way it is being celebrated in our institution reminds me of barbarism. The poor fellow who is unfortunate to have birthday on that day, is being kicked by his friends where ever they feel like. He is swung, holding his limbs, violently. Then they took him to a shallow pool to drown him. After that they took him out to smear the cake over his body including face.

I could not understand this celebration. Indians now a days are very fond of westernisation of everything. Earlier people use to visit temple to do darshan and offering on their birthday. Now along with that these so called bumps. In Britain they used to swing up and down the person, number of times equal to his age. That is what birthday bump means. Here they have biharised the whole act (sorry for the language).

I would like to invite discussion on this matter from young birthday boys and girls who had gone through this and expect this next year too with fear.