29th September 2008 :: Where is your festive spirit?
Something is different. Over the past few years I have been used to reading news related to navratri and dandia. Business news like how the sale of condoms suddenly picks up during this time, how the rates of hotel rooms in Maharashtra and Gujrat shoot up as a lot of youngsters are queuing up to rent them on an hourly rate. Employment news like how a lot of young boys, specially the college students, are working as escorts for “aunties” whose husbands not available/free to take them to the garbha and news about the private detectives who suddenly get a surge of assignments from parents to spy on their kids, mainly daughters.
What has happened? Have these festival news lost out print space to inflation and terrorism or the people have suddenly lost their mojo... Oops, the festive spirit.
