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.
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Dear sir,
With all respect, I completely disagree with u on this matter... N more than 1 thing in ur post hints that my comment is going to be a long one.
I came across birthday bumps for the 1st time in Manipal only n it was a very pleasant surprise...
I must say its done exactly as u mentioned but still its NOT barbaric for SURE...
Its always ur close friends who gather for u n its the closest who bang u the hardest on ur birthday....
People, introvert- not interested in celebrating birthdays by nature r hardly troubled... no one wants to bump them.
Not a single friend of mine has ever had any problem with it- We await it n r not scared of it...though u have to say 'no no- stay away, before getting bumped for the fun of it'
its fun and a very strong way of showing affection...
Bumps n cake smearings ir very much liked by all the b'day boys n now even girls in our batch (who liked it so much when they saw the boys that they started it in their all-ladies b'day parties also) n not feared as in the case of Ragging.
I remember how in 2nd yr when my b'day fell close to exam - very few were there to bump me though they did come over n wished-- How sad I was.
Calling birthday bumps 'barbaric' will be equivalent to sitting on a couch watching Rugby n calling the players barbaric ---but the people involved- Enjoy it...
Ur very 1st line- I don't really personally like to celebrate my b'day- explains ur distaste for the bumps to me clearly but had u liked celebrating ur b'day as most of us do- U would have found bumps to be an integral part of it sir...
I'm a Bengali sir not a Bihai supporter myself but still I must tell u Birthday bump n cake smearing is very much alien in Bihar... There its more so the Indian way of celebrating which U i guess r fond of... Bumps r more common in the affluent society, as in Manipal, rightly stated to be a result of westernization... So u just can't use the word 'biharized' just because u don't like Biharis... Not expected from us at least from a Dr. of ur status Sir...
I spoke right from my heart n apologize if this annoys u. U can always delete my comment for my msg already reached u :)
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