HOLI...The festival of colours......Has Holi Lost it's charm in todays' urban life

  


Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein,
Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hilmil Aave. Loog Lugai
Bhai Mahalan Mein Bhira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera


Days come and Days go. X'Mas has gone and so has the New year. But there is no end to celebration in India. One or the other thing, People have found reasons to make themselves happy. Probably that is the only way out now a days to become happy or else everyone is dis-satisfied with one or the other reason. Be it a love relation issue or a professional incompetence or low appraisal. Anyways appraisals are around the corner and have heard from a loct of people that they are not getting the hikes which they were expecting earlier. So here comes the opportunity of taking out all these frustration. It is time for another festival - HOLI. The festival of colours. When you can actually take out your frustration on anyone by spreading colours on his/her face and leaving them with just a big grin. Be it your Boss or envious colleagues, the girl whom you love alot for past 5 years without letting her know the feelings of your heart or any new neighbour.

Till the time I was in lucknow, I used to play Holi like a fanatic. But once I left my hometown I realized that Holi is now a days only confined to few states. It has lost it's charm in last few years. And in cities like bangalore there are a very few people left out who actually celebrate it in terms of playing colours. Festivals, in India, are now a days becoming a formality too. It has just become the way to wish others on mobile through SMS or to leave a common message on Facebook for friends. All have become so busy in this tech-savvy world that they do not have time to play colours with their friends, family and society people. Holi earlier meant that all the friends will be coming together and will be playing colours in the morning starting from their own home and which will end up by going to every person's home they had ever known in their own city. Then they will be calling each and every friend/relatives of themselves across the globe just to wish them a Happy Holi. Now a day it has lost charm. Nobody is bothered to play colours or even to wish others a Happy Holi.

When I used to be a child, I used to wake up early atleast on the Holi morning, used to arrange for differnt colours, balloons, water, buckets and Gulaal. Then the task was to find a place to hide from where we can attack our victims without getting seen or caught easily. Fill the balloons with coloured water or fill up the 'Picch-kaari' and then wait calmly for our victim. Sometimes it was some one on bike or the neighbor-hood aunty whom we colored in the colors of happy and then the complaints it used to reach our parents. After that we used to go to different friends' places and used to take them along with us and so we ended up making a big " Tolii ". There were many places in our society where uncles have arranged for DJ. We used to dance there like freaks on famous songs of ' Holi khele raghubeera ' and ' Holi ke din sab Mil jaate hain ' along with the recites of "Bura Na Maano Holi haii".


Now it has become almost impossible to find the same  things in todays' advanced era. People dont have the time to come out of their home and meet their neighbors or friends. Even calling up all the friends has become a herculean task for them. People are becoming so parochial in the way of their thinking that they dont wanna do anything. Is just a way to sit at home and relax for them. We have just lost the real essence of Holi....Isn't it.....? ? ?


Holi......It was the best way to socialize and not to forget our roots or our basic nature of being a human as We all are a social animal and we are nothing without each-other. Wake up now and Don't forget Holi this year and atleast wish all your near and dear ones by making them a personal calls if not visits. Facebook can not share all of your emotions and can not maintain your relationships the way you want. It will just remain like a formality as you all have a friend list of 400-500 formal frineds out there not even to say hello to each other.

Wish you all a Very Happy Holi......buraa naa Maano Holiii Haiiii.......! ! ! ! !




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By: Pushpak Pandey


Holi Khele raghubeera complete lyrics for eveyone:

Taal Se Taal Mile More Babua
Baje Dhool Mrudang.
Man Se Man Ka Meel Jo Ho To
Rang Se Mil Jaye Rang
Hori Khele Raghuveera
( Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein,
Hori Khele Raghuveera )�(4)
Hilmil Aave. Loog Lugai�(3)
Bhai Mahalan Mein Bhira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera�(3)

Tanik Sharam Nahi Aye, Dekhe Naahi Apni Umariya.
Saath Baras Mein Ishq Ladaye�(2)
Mukhde Pe Rang Lagaye. Bada Rangeela Sawariya�(2)
Chunri Pe Dale Abhira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera�(2)
Aare Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hilmil Aave. Loog Lugai�
Bhai Mahalan Mein Bhira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera�(2)

Aab Ke Phag Mose Khelo Na Hori
Haan� Haan Na Khelat� Na Khelat.
Tori Shapat Main Umariya Ki Thori
Hai� Hai� Chacha

Dekhe Hai Upar Se Zanke Nahi Andhar Sajinya�(2)
Umar Chadi Hai, Dil To Jawan Hai, �(2)
Bahoan Mein Bharke Mujhe Zara Jhankade Paizaniya. �(2)
Saachi Kahe Hai Kabira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera�(2)
Aree Hori� Khele�Raghu�.
Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein�., Hori Khele Raghuveera�(2)
Hilmil Aave. Loog Lugai�(2)
Bhai Mahalan Mein Bhira Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera
Hori Khele Raghuveera Avadh Mein, Hori Khele Raghuveera�(4)

Iss Valentines Day Again.........! ! !

                                        

Love is in the air all where.....Boyfriends have started scratching their heads again thinking how to get rid of spending money. Gals have started mulling on how to make their boyfriends spend more and what is the thing which they should ask their boyfriend on this valentine.

All the guys across the country become tense in the month of Feb as it brings with itself a little of love and oodles of spending on gals. Budget for this month is already out of hands and this is making them nuts. Hug day, Kiss day, Cholocate day, teddy bear day,rose day and so on......I seriously feel pity on guys who have girlfriends. Guys are just blaming cupid for giving them a Heart for which they are now paying so heavily. What for.......Just to keep their hearts beeping for the same girl. And if he does not do anything on Valentines Day then the remarks and criticism which he will be receiving from his girlfriend will be more powerfull than the impact of Atom Bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by America. First of all the silent war or cold war will happen for a few days and then the guy will have to spend again to woo her girlfriend back. So it is better to spend money on Valentines itself as he is not left with any other option but spending.

Girls feel lucky in the second week of Feb as they have got the freedom to ask for gifts and it becomes righteous too to ask for anything from their boyfriend. Chocolates, roses and teddy bears are the things which girls have already received till Valentines. Because of all these so called love festivals, even the rates of Roses and price of teddy bears become exorbitant. I remember last to last years story of mine(When I too had a gf), I was in my MBA in delhi and thought of presenting a Bouquet to my gf as that was the first Valentines together for us. So I went to buy a bouquet for her on the eve of 13th feb. And the sky rocketing price of single rose blew my mind up. Anyhow I managed for a Bouquet by spending some 600-700 bucks.

But the thing which matter is our Love, and can not we spend some money to keep our love happy. What if I am spending few thousands of those useless paper for the happiness of the one whom I love. Money can be made again but How to get the girl again who stole your heart when you once saw her first time. Anyways guys are so benevolent......can not they spend a few on their own girlfriends.....Why not....I have always done it and know thay all the Guys are also same like all the girls are......! ! ! ! !


You all know what.........This is the case only for initial few years and that is why Valentines matters the most only for Youths. If we are talking about Love....then why not make your everyday a Valentine.....? ? ? ? And why to wait for a day to express your love.....We can do it anytime. What I have realised is that, ofcourse the day has a special meaning but Love does not starts or ends with these things. Now, when I am not with my girlfriend, I have realised that it was never the money which mattered, It is the passion with which you love the girl which takes your relationship for a long run. It is the care which you do for your girlfriend which makes her feel secure.

And the biggest fact is that girls already know these things and they never want guys to do something real big(in terms of money). It is just that at the end of the day they also have feelings and desires which materialize at this time of the year as nobody can call them selfish or greedy. Who will not love to get gifts from their beloved ones. Even guys will.........! ! !

So the gist of the whole story is that Let your girl demand for things.......make your Valentines special....but not only with gifts.......Express your love also from the bottom of your heart and make her feel that how much you Love her.......Make this Valentines special, not only for her but for yourself too......Express yourself in the best possible manner which will help you take your relationship a long mile.

Happy Valentines Day to All of you in Advance........! ! ! ! !