Sunday, April 1, 2012

Oh! To be in England now that spring is here …. and to drink an English Beer.

As spring approaches remnants of a childhood song echoes in my mind, and I try to recall the lines and express the joyous days.
Holi is a religious spring festival celebrated by Indians, also known as festival of colors,it is celebrated in India, by people throwing scented powder and perfume at each other. Bonfires are lit on the eve of the festival; Holi is celebrated at the end of the winter season. One of its biggest customs is the loosening strictness of social structures, which normally include religion, age, sex, status, and caste. No holier than thou attitude here as it closes the wide gaps between social classes and brings everyone together. The cosmic orbit of cyclical change of seasons translated into a burst of color. These cyclical changes are the essence of nature’s being.
The atmosphere is filled with excitement and joy, originally, it was a festival that commemorated good harvests and the fertile land; in addition to celebrating the coming of spring, Indians believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colors and saying farewell to winter. As Robin Frost and Vithal Nadkarni both commented, it’s the time when earth begins to bloom again. The Ashoka tree is aflame with orange and red blossoms, while the chaffinch sings on the elm’s orchard bough, the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark! A variety of bees, butterflies and bees galore
A riot of blossoms and dewdrops, the buttercups, gaudy melon-flowers; The parakeets, flame throated barbets, rainbow hued sunbirds, the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, in fine careless rapture! . Everyone is dancing to the deeper rhythm of the cosmic cycle of life and death, the link whose imprimatur is embedded in the DNA of the Universe The confluence that arises from the converging of seasons in the sun, the vehicle of transformation of life on earth. And so the earth shall rejoice and bloom as the winter sorrowful and sighing shall flee.

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